The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
As Germans occupy the mountains round Barga, and U.S. Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested, and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a black soldier fighting for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Viittoria Guidi has met. In the chaos, they find each other--but can their gro ...Show more
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Rejacketed by Annie Barrows; Mary-Ann Shaffer
$0.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope WiltonTo give them hope she must tell their storyIt's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has ...Show more
A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'A very lively read' Independent'A pacy, elegant novel' Mail on Sunday'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red'Wholly absorbing' Stylist'Therese Anne Fowler's portrait of this feisty, forward-thinking woman is enthralling' Good Housekeeping'Sure ...Show more
Enid: The scandalous life of a glamorous Australian who dazzled the world by Robert Wainwright
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author of Sheila comes the story of an Australian socialite who fascinated the world. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and dared ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
Fall of Giants: (#1 Century) by Ken Follett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Century Trilogy Ser.
The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh ...Show more
A Column of Fire (#3 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral loo ...Show more
World Without End (#2 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men ...Show more
Improbability of Love: by Hannah Rothschild
$21.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world that is also a surprising and wonderful love story When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian his ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read ...Show more