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
The Children's Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor by Otto B Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu ...Show more
A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald by Natasha Lester
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
It's the roaring twenties in the Manhattan of gin, jazz and prosperity. Women wear makeup and hitched hemlines and enjoy a new freedom to vote and work. Not so for Evelyn Lockhart, who is forbidden from pursuing her passion to become one of the first female doctors. Chasing her dream will mean turning h ...Show more
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Based on the true story of iconic Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, McCullough's bold debut novel is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her.
Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Burning Chambers
Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her fa ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1914 Paul B umer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story. A few year ...Show more
Graceland by Bethan Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
What happens when your only son becomes The King of Rock 'n? Roll?From the moment she first holds him, after his twin brother is stillborn, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously. She will be his greatest influence, the love of his life. She will be the one by his side, when Elvis is a boy and h ...Show more
The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Courtneys of Africa
The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun and extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she and Michael Courtney had shared - and sets out to seek a future for his u ...Show more
Eleanor of Aquitaine By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power i ...Show more
Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens | Reading Level: very good
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by historian Alison Weir, author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, is the third enthralling novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. A fascinating look at Henry VIII's third wife. Essential reading for fa ...Show more
The Sorcerer by Jack Whyte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Legends of Camelot #3
A throne will be claimed Heroes will fall A destiny will be fulfilled Merlyn Britannicus returns to his home of Camelot to keep a sacred promise: to lead Arthur Pendragon to the throne. But between Merlyn and victory lie opponents who would destroy those that he loves the most. As friends and family fac ...Show more
The Emerald Tablet (Benedict Hitchens #2) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Benedict Hitchens
The Suez Canal, 1956. The world teeters on the brink of nuclear war and the Middle East is a tinderbox. Conversely, redeemed archaeologist Benedict Hitchens is enjoying a peaceful existence after years in the professional and personal wilderness. His recent discoveries in western Turkey secured him a pl ...Show more