The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & ...Show more
Make Me a City: A Novel of Chicago Rising by Jonathan Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 1
It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born ... This masterful debut novel spans Chicago's tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made- by a succession of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulati ...Show more
The Naturalist's Daughter by Tea Cooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"Two women, a century apart, are drawn into a mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus. 1808 Agnes Banks, NSW: Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking ...Show more
Sword of Kings (The Last Kingdom #12) by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom.His blood is Saxon His heart is Viking His battleground is Engl ...Show more
War of the Wolf (Last Kingdom #11) by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight ... Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival ...Show more
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and ...Show more
Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793 (#4 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottis ...Show more
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Cousins' War Ser.
The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centu ...Show more
Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent ...Show more
Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: UQP Modern Classics Ser.
This is Australia's past as you won't read it in any history book. Joan pops up in all over famous moments and gives her irreverent female version of them. She remakes history in her own image and asks: who gets written into history, who gets written out, and why?
Big Week by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all . . .During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the m ...Show more