The Winter Palace : A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical
The epic, sensuous story of Catherine the Great's ruthless rise to power, through the eyes of a young girl groomed as the Empress's spy in 18th Century Russia. When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schoo ...Show more
The King's War - A Commoner, the Crown and Britain's Greatest Struggle by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories by Diana Gabaldon
$16.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana Gabaldon Among the seven spellbinding pieces there is "The Custom of the Army," which begi ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer, wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to ...Show more
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and one brav ...Show more
World Without End by Ken Follett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and r ...Show more
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
$6.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Earth's Children S.
This epic sweeps the reader back 25,000 years. Ayla is adopted by a group of Neanderthals. At first she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. Ayla is cared for by the medicine woman, but makes an enemy of the group's leader, who will do anything to destroy her.
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over a ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1 by Alison Weir
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens
*A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir is the first in a captivating series, depicting the lives of Henry VIII's queens. Ideal for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick. 'Alison Weir has managed to intertwine profound histor ...Show more
Three Sisters, Three Queens (Tudor Court #7) by Philippa Gregory
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWhen Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined -- with Margaret's younger sister Mary -- to a sisterhood unique in all ...Show more
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the Starz original series The White Queen, a riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII's sixth wife Kateryn Parr, the first English queen to publish under her own name.Why would a woman marry a serial killer?Because she cannot refuse...Kateryn P ...Show more
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A unique novel, looking at one the greatest battles, a battle that was a turning point in history, from many points of view, by a master storyteller.