The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire van Ryn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home resident with dementia and a doll cradled lovingly in her arms. Bit by bit, Nora reveals details about her younger life as a spirited teenage girl living beneath the Great Western Tiers in Tasmania's heartl ...Show more
The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction | Series: The\Wolf Den Trilogy Ser.
The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den TrilogyA courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall?Amara's journey has taken her far, from a lowly slave in Pompeii's brothel to a high-powered courtesan in Rome. She ...Show more
Palace of Shadows by Ray Celestin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . ."I'm not asking you to build something impossible. I'm asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness ...Show more
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall by Jacob Kerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
'Striking a perfect balance between myth and psychosocial realism, this is a beautifully written debut' Guardian'Recalls M. R. James at his nastiest' TelegraphEshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1962, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters and doesn't go to ...Show more
The Chocolate Factory by Mary-Lou Stephens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory. A promotion and a fresh st ...Show more
The Last Crown by Elzbieta Cherezinska
$36.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction | Series: The\Bold Ser.
Across Baltic shores, English battlegrounds, and the land of Northern Lights, author Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Last Crown is the follow up to The Widow Queen, and the epic conclusion of Swietoslawa's journey from Polish princess to Queen of Denmark & Sweden and Queen Mother of England.The web of lo ...Show more
The Visitors by Jane Harrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...Show more
An Ungrateful Instrument by Michael Meehan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
‘I want to tell a story. A long but simple story. A tale of long recovery. A tale of love. A tale of lost and found.’In his remarkable new novel, award-winning Australian author Michael Meehan sensitively explores the links between generational conflict, family, and the creative act. At its heart An Ung ...Show more
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction | Series: The Radiant Emperor Ser.
An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daug ...Show more
The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story by Dan Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by a 15th-century monk and now retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautiful small-format. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. It was dank, wet and gloomy; ...Show more
Displaced by Cristina Sanders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
An enthralling historical novel of immigration, courage and first love from an award-winning New Zealand author. Eloise and her family must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand. On the ship across, Eloise meets Lars, a Norwegian labourer travellin ...Show more
Blitzcat by Robert Westall
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historic Fiction
She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing ...Show more