The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gomez Barcena
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Description: WINNER OF THE 2014 OJO CRITICO LITERARY PRIZE AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE FESTIVAL DU PREMIER ROMAN IN CHAMBERY Peru, 1904. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at least, they'd like to be. Sons of Lima's elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read al ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea - 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates--a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign pol ...Show more
Yours Cheerfully (#2 The Emmy Lake Chronicles) by A J Pearce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Emmy Lake Chronicles Ser.
The Times BestsellerFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird comes Yours Cheerfully, the charming and hilarious tonic we've all been waiting for!'Sweet, heart-warming and uplifting . . . Absolutely lovely!' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups'Full of wit, friendship and the uplifting kn ...Show more
Eye of a Rook by Josephine Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife Emily suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary Perth, Alice, a writer, and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened as Alice inves ...Show more
Gemini Falls by Sean Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Melbourne, 1930, as the Great Depression is taking hold: Thirteen-year-old Morris Turner, a little anxious by nature, feels more at home gazing at the stars than spending time with his detached father Jude, a detective, and older sister, Lottie. When a young woman is murdered in Jude's home town of Gemi ...Show more
A Most Intriguing Lady by The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
‘A rollicking, romantic tale of love and intrigue in aristocratic Victorian Scotland. Sarah Ferguson’s fascinatingly detailed novel kept me turning the pages as it’s very entertaining.’ Dame Joan Collins ‘If you loved Her Heart for a Compass, you will love A Most Intriguing Lady’ Sunday Times bestsellin ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Historical
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpieceThe authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; With a new introduction by Anne EnrightSet entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce c ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Dolce Vita Confidential - Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian" a global synonym for taste, style, and flair. A confluence of cultural contributions created a bright, burning moment in history: it was the h ...Show more