The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As th ...Show more
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of brilliance, imagination, intrigue and style -- about the painter Velazquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering ...Show more
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles...San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
Circe: The stunning new anniversary edition from the author of international bestseller The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the ...Show more
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves. 'Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ... 'A very special, very clever, very entertaining novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Padd ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
Sharpe's Command - Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Sharpe's Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep ...Show more
The Armour of Light HC (Kingsbridge #4) by Ken Follett
$59.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to powe ...Show more
A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Beautifully written and illuminating... Excellently conveys the experience of being deaf in a hearing world' Priscilla Morris, Women's Prize Shortlisted author of Black Butterflies Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiance receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ell ...Show more
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction*** Paris, 1895- an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd.Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Pic ...Show more