The Sugar Palace by Fiona McIntosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
'How about we call it the Sugar Palace? And when people enter, we'll make sure it feels like a colourful fairytale spun from sugar.'Under the clamour of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being built nearby, Grace Fairweather is working in her father's grocery shop in The Rocks when she begins making her own con ...Show more
World Without End (Kingsbridge #2) by Ken Follett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
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 the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and r ...Show more
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge #3) by Ken Follett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris. Elizabeth determines to set up a new se ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge #0) prequel by Ken Follett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' - The TimesA Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1) by Ken Follett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his tow ...Show more
The Wall by Douglas Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical
AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian's Wall. Through a combination of military prowess, brutality and bribery, Marcus has spent twenty years keeping the savag ...Show more
The Paris Notebook by Tessa Harris
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
'So many twists and turns and I certainly didn't predict the ending. Five stars from me, I highly recommend this book.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A secret big enough to destroy the Führer's reputation. . . January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't ex ...Show more
All The Broken Places: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and dist ...Show more
Gods and Goddesses (Greek Myths) - Macmillan Collectors Library HB by Jean Menzies (Editor)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a ser ...Show more
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info'Scathing and clever' - Le Temps19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. ...Show more
Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical
1950s London. Bloomsbury Books on Lamb's Conduit Street has resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the manager's unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of war in Europe, the world is changing and the women in the shop have plans.
The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Burning Chambers Ser.
'Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The G ...Show more