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.
An Echo in the Bone Gabaldon
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—acros ...Show more
Bring Up the Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. With this historic win for 'Bring Up the Bodies', Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for 'Wolf H ...Show more
Lunch With Elizabeth David by Williams/Roger
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical
They meet by chance in 1940 - the debonair gastronome Norman Douglas and a stylish, slightly haughty, well-bred Elizabeth Gwynne - at a street market in the South of France. He lectures her on the marvels of tarragon, and in that seminal moment in Antibes begins the epicurean tutelage of the woman who b ...Show more
The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This is the story of England's most famous, and notorious, king. The facts of Henry VIII's life and reign were more astonishing, poignant and outlandish than the plot twists of most fiction. Henry's character was complex: he was a charismatic, ardent - and brash - young lover who married six times; a sc ...Show more
Delirium Of The Brave by Harris William
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Savannah, 1864. Confederate Captain Patrick Driscoll and his dear friend and manservant Shadrack "Shad" Bryan leave their tearful families to help fight for the Southern cause. They are to set up fort at Raccoon Island off Georgia's coast in a last-ditch effort to save their beloved city from Union atta ...Show more
Crusade by Stewart Binns
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Making of England Quartet Ser.
1072 - England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the English throne, to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow: brother against brother, family against f ...Show more
Anarchy by Stewart Binns
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
"Anarchy" is the knuckle-whitening third novel in Stewart Binns' "The Making of England" series. Ruthless brutality, greed and ambition: the "Anarchy". The year is 1186, the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry II. Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, has lived through long Henry's reign and that of hi ...Show more
Conquest by Stewart Binns
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Making of England Quartet Ser.
It's 1066 - Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings. The battle is hard fought and bloody, the lives of thousands have been spent, including that of King Harold. But England wil ...Show more
Lionheart by Stewart Binns
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Lionheart is the latest thrilling historical novel in Stewart Binns' epic Making of England series. 1176 - England King Henry II reigns over a vast empire that stretches the length of Britain and reaches the foothills of the Pyrenees. But he is aging, and his powerful and ambitious sons are restless. He ...Show more
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
A beautiful and thought provoking novel: lost to history by the chronicles of men, here at last is the dazzling story of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter in the Book of Genesis. 'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was brok ...Show more