Locksmiths Daughter (PB) by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In a world where no one can be trusted and secrets are currency, one woman stands without fear.Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London's master locksmith. For her there is no lock too elaborate, no secret too well kept. Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster and protector of Queen Elizabeth-the last of ...Show more
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador Collection
A dark, nihilistic tale, Cormac McCarthy's second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers.In an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century, a woman named Rinthy bears ...Show more
Nemesis by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Multimillion copy bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns with a brand-new historical epic, in which three strands of the Courtney family converge in a bloodthirsty bid for revenge.
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vi ...Show more
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway? 1814 Sydney Town When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived fro ...Show more
The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Imperial China meets Edwardian England in this epic story of loves lost and gained, set during the aftermath of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no man is a match for them. In their small harbour town of Fudi, they practise sword fighting, write couplets to one another, and strut ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy #1) by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...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
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the astonishing story of three sisters whose promise to each other kept them alive in a place without hope.
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
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, with original drawings by world-renowned artist Chris Ofili.In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseu ...Show more