A Tattooed Heart (Convict Girls #4) by Deborah Challinor
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Convict Girls
The fourth and final book in the epic Convict Girls saga from bestselling author Deborah Challinor, vividly bringing the past and its people to life. 1832: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Sarah Morgan and Harriet Clarke have been serving their sentences in Sydney Town for three years. For much of that time ...Show more
The Empress by Meg Clothier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Constantinople, 1179 - Princess Agnes of France is thirteen when she marries the heir to Byzantium, an empire unmatched in wealth, power - and glamour. But once she sets foot in the Queen of Cities, a decadent world where dazzling luxury masks unspeakable cruelty, she realises that her husband is a delu ...Show more
The Empress of Ice Cream by Anthony Capella
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco's mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished lady-in-waiting. The most powerful ministers of two countries h ...Show more
Blood Royal by Vanora Bennett
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical
The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivour. This is the first in a series of early medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of 'Portrait of an Unknown Woman' . Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king is born in troubled times. Thoug ...Show more
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Paradise Alley is the story of three Irish immigrant women who are trapped together in the midst of events that would come to be known as the Draft Riots ? perhaps the bloodiest, most destructive riots in American history. The three women at the center of the story are Ruth, a survivor of the terrible I ...Show more
Bones of Avignon: A Body Farm Thriller by Jefferson Bass
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Body Farm Ser.
A burial chamber beneath the Palace of the Popes in Avignon. A 2,000-year-old skeleton. A conspiracy that will shake the foundations of the world. Here lie the bones of Jesus of Nazareth.
Close to the Wind : Love, Passion and Adventure in 1860s New Zealand by Zana Bell
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
"We are not going any further until you tell me why yet another fiance seems intent on wringing your neck. " Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother be ...Show more
Memories of You by Benita Brown
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Benita Brown's brilliant new novel of heartache, siblings and falling in love, set in the lead up to the Second World War and events that threaten even the strongest of family bonds. Following the death of their parents, the Mitchell siblings are tragically split up. While Helen is taken in by their sel ...Show more
A Sacred Storm by Theodore Brun
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Wanderer Chronicles Ser.
Bound by honour. Haunted by loss. 8th Century Sweden: Erlan Aurvandil, a Viking outlander, has pledged his sword to Sviggar Ivarsson, King of the Sve rs, and sworn enemy of the Danish king Harald Wartooth. But Wartooth, hungry for power, is stirring violence in the borderlands. As the fires of this anci ...Show more
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Bess Heath is born to a life of privilege, one bound by Edwardian convention and a duty to marry well. But in 1915, on the verge of her eighteenth birthday, she returns home from school to an unfamiliar scene - the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished, her father is a broken man, jobless and ...Show more
The Sword and the Scimitar by David Ball
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
From the cruelty of the slave markets of Algiers to the majesty of Topkapi, the sultan's seraglio in Istanbul, to the convent of the noble Knights of St. John in Malta, The Sword and the Scimitar is a novel of the timeless struggle between the religions and cultures of east and west. Nico and Maria, Mal ...Show more
Portrait in Sepia by Allende, Isabel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile,and a family saga peopled by characters from Daughters of Fortune and The House of Spirits,two of Allendes most celebrated novels.She is a great storyteller.After her mother dies in childbirth, Aurora Del Valle ...Show more