Mr Einstein's Secretary by Matthew Reilly
$49.99 NZD
Category: Historical
A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHER IN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARS All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a scientist, a secretary, a ...Show more
The Armour of Light HC (Kingsbridge #4) by Ken Follett
$59.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to powe ...Show more
The Sugar Palace by Fiona McIntosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
'How about we call it the Sugar Palace? And when people enter, we'll make sure it feels like a colourful fairytale spun from sugar.'Under the clamour of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being built nearby, Grace Fairweather is working in her father's grocery shop in The Rocks when she begins making her own con ...Show more
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar. Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour o ...Show more
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Three generations, one chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present Day: Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dr ...Show more
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of ...Show more
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown. Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warde ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
Empire by Conn Iggulden
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
IN CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athen ...Show more
Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. by Kerry Taylor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Inspired by the true story of Bill Smith (1886-1975), who may have been Australia's first trans jockey. A moving, tender debut novel about identity, solitude and the human spirit. A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smi ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
A Day of Fire - A Novel of Pompeii by Kate Quinn; Stephanie Dray; Ben Kane; Eliza Knight; Sophie Perinot; Victoria Alvear
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined anthology of stories following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of th ...Show more