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
This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is an epic novel of sea-faring adventure set in the 19th century charting the life of Robert Fitzroy, the captain of `The Beagle` and his passenger Charles Darwin. It combines adventrure, emotion, ideas, humour and tragedy as well as illuminating the history of the 19th century. Fitzroy, the Christ ...Show more
A Single Thread (PB) by Tracy Chevalier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian 'Deeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cry' The Times 'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope Lively Violet is 39. She lost her fiancé in the Great War. She is consider ...Show more
Dawnlands (#3 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
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Category: Historical
From Philippa Gregory, the #1 bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides, the spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. It is 168 ...Show more
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon's independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension. As the country descends into a bloody civil war, Na ...Show more
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Historical
Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road. 1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral land. Homeless, indu ...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
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
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Category: Historical | Series: The Century Trilogy 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh ...Show more
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a son a ...Show more
This Was a Man (#7 The Clifton Chronicles) 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 Pale Horseman (TLK #2) by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: The Last Kingdom
As the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders--and he questions where his allegiance must lie. But blood is his destiny ...Show more
The Lords of the North (TLK #3) by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The third installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series 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. After achieving victory at King Alfred's side, Uhtred of Beb ...Show more