The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles...San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
39.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
The Wild Date Palm by Diane Armstrong
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey ...Show more
Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans of Pachinko and All the Light We Cannot See. 'I'll never forget this book' JESSAMINE CH ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'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
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
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
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a son a ...Show more