The Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she will be forced to question her beliefs, her professionalism a ...Show more
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series by Dan Simmons
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott. The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the ...Show more
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund ...Show more
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that cont ...Show more
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romanti ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings (TPB) by Jennifer Rosner
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the melodies Shira compose ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$50.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alino ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers
$32.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Anna Seghers's multilayered masterpiece, Transit, ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseilles. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named We ...Show more
Unity (Assassin's Creed #7) by Oliver Bowden
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Assassin's Creed
War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty ...Show more