The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
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
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Commemorative Edition: the heartbreaking and unforgettable international bestseller by Heather Morris
$49.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Five years on, this beautiful hardback edition is a tribute to Lale, Gita and the many thousands of readers who have treasured this book since its first release. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is ...Show more
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway? 1814 Sydney Town When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived fro ...Show more
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy #1) by Nora Roberts
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Lost Bride Trilogy Ser.
1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him... After finding her fiancé in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep out of the blue with news that she has inherited ...Show more
The Queen's Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and - despite the thrilling ...Show more
Trouble by Lex Croucher
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical
There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister's – brilliant, kind Amy, who isn't perpetually angry, dangerously ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Robert Harris' fastest-selling hardback since records began comes to paperback with an unmissable campaign'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES'From what is it they flee?'He t ...Show more
Night Train to Marrakech (#3 Daughters of War) by Dinah Jefferies
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Daughters of War Ser.
The final book in the sweeping new historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author. In 1960s Marrakech a young girl travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption deca ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more