Sharpe's Command - Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Sharpe's Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep ...Show more
Sisters of Freedom by Mary Anne O'Connor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Rich, transportive historical fiction with empowering, female characters ... meticulously researched, thought-provoking and utterly compelling.' - Better Reading Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's electio ...Show more
Small Acts of Defiance by Michelle Wright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'A beautifully intimate portrait that celebrates the courage and resilience of the human spirit.' Jane Harper, author of The Survivors'Historical fiction of the highest order ... An engrossing, deeply-satisfying read, one of the year's outstanding, not-to-be missed debuts. ' Melissa Ashley, author of T ...Show more
The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels ...Show more
The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' ...Show more
The Cavendon Women by Barbara Taylor Bradford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Cavendon Chronicles Ser.
A sweeping, multi-generational saga for fans of Downton Abbey, set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall as the roaring twenties change the family's fortunes forever. 1926. One stately home's future lies with four very different young women...On a summer weekend in 1926 the Ingham family gathers at C ...Show more
The Darkest Shore by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The independent women of Scotland stand up to a witch hunt, male fury and the power of the Church in a battle for survival in this compelling historical novel based on true events in early eighteenth century Scotland. 1703: The wild east coast of Scotland.Returning to her home town of Pittenweem, fishwi ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy
The brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay!'Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural ... such a beautiful book!' bestselling author Santa Montefiore'A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love h ...Show more
The Forthright Woman by Darry Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Widow Marcella Ross won't let anything - or anyone - stop her from discovering the truth behind a deadly family mystery ... Mystery and romance collide in this compulsive historical adventure from a bestselling Australian author. 1898, South Australia At the gateway to the Flinders Ranges lies Kanya ...Show more