The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The moving new novel from the bestselling author of The Night Guest. In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets and enormous dust storms. One of its own has gone missing - six-year-old Denny Wallace - and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they s ...Show more
Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
Hawaii by MICHENER James
$42.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Previously a bestselling hardcover and a perennial favourite in mass market paperback, HAWAII i is now available for the first time in a handsome readable trade paperback edition. The story of Hawaii, and of this book, is that of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity and yet living with on ...Show more
What Am I Doing Here by Chatwin,Bruce
$18.65 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador Bks.
In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a wolf-boy in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.
The War At Troy by Lindsay Clarke
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This edition unavailable. See other edition 0007152558. The first part of a two-book series - a masterful retelling of the myths of Homer's Iliad. 'The people who lived in those days were closer to gods than we are, and great deeds and marvels were commoner then, which is why the stories we have fr ...Show more
The Lost Army by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the next searing adventure from the bestselling author of The Last Legion.The 4th century BC, a village in Syria: A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She ...Show more
Before the War by Fay Weldon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Spoils of War
Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to ...Show more
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The dramatic sequel to Twilight, following the tale of a teenage girl whose love for a vampire gets her into a lot of trouble. I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. âÂÂShoot,â I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from ...Show more
Desiree by Annemarie Selinko
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
"Desiree" charts the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court seen through the eyes of the merchant's daughter from Marseilles who was Napoleon's fiance and rose to become the Queen of Sweden. Paperback (B-Format)
The Mouse Deer Kingdom by Chiew-Siah Tei
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It is 1905 and thousands of Chinese natives are fleeing poverty and the Qing Empire to work in the mines and plantations of South East Asia. Chai Mingzhi, an immigrant newly arrived in the port-town of Malacca, meets Engi, a young boy from the jungle, and takes the child to live with him.Trapped in a wo ...Show more
The Burning Land (The Last Kingdom #5) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex ...Show more
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions tha ...Show more