Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A wonderfully original, emotionally complex reading-group novel. Set in 1804, the novel follows Anne Sharp, a governess who became close to Jane Austen and her family, and the challenging 'upstairs downstairs' dynamic she found herself enmeshed in 'Utterly absorbing and illuminating. Written with a sur ...Show more
Only the Brave by Danielle Steel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
COURAGE. COMPASSION. SURVIVAL. LOVE. Only the Brave is a heart-wrenching story of courage and hope set in wartime Berlin, from the billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel. In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler’s Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The ...Show more
The Engraver's Secret: The new, gripping and captivating debut art history novel for fans of Jessie Burton, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell by Lisa Medved
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Two women, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years . A stunning art history thriller for fans of Dominic Smith, Pip Williams and Lauren Chater set around the life, times, and feuds of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. What do you do when the weight of betrayal grows too heavy to bea ...Show more
The Women by Kristin Hannah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
The Sorrow Stone by Kari Gislason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An epic and compelling novel that reimagines the fate of one of Iceland's famous women of history. UQP is offering a money-back guarantee that The Sorrow Stone is a great read- see inside the back cover for details.After committing an audacious act of revenge for her brother's murder, Disa flees with he ...Show more
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Essentials
This book is short-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
This Was a Man: The Clifton Chronicles 7 by Jeffrey Archer
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Clifton Chronicles Ser.
The conclusion to the Clifton Chronicles. Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the cabinet secretary. Is she a spy, or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmar ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
__________________________mountweazel, noun- a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipate ...Show more
The Knowing: The most intoxicating gothic, historical fiction debut of 2024! by Emma Hinds
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma. 'If you love Sarah Waters and dark historical fiction, you will no doubt be hooked.' — Diva magazine 'Vivid, visceral and utterly immersive. Ex ...Show more