The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
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 and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical | 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
Sharpe's Command - Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical | 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
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Like many before her, Maria Lagana ...Show more
The Plague Letters by V. L. Valentine
$22.99 NZD
Category: Historical
'A riotous delve into the dark medical world of Restoration London' - S.G. MACLEAN'An infectious read, packed with atmosphere and colourful characters' - OSCAR DE MURIEL'A gripping whodunnit with a sinister twist' - JENNIFER RYAN________________________________________WHO WOULD MURDER THE DYING...London ...Show more
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wit and quick thinking to discover what happened to her family. But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, she must relinquish the home and futur ...Show more
City of Vengeance (#01 Cesare Aldo) by D. V. Bishop
$19.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Cesare Aldo Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE City of Vengeance is an explosive debut historical thriller by D. V. Bishop set in Renaissance Florence. Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by imm ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 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