World Without End (Kingsbridge #2) by Ken Follett
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
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 Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1) by Ken Follett
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his tow ...Show more
All The Broken Places: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and dist ...Show more
The Wide World by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Literature with conviction; a furious talent' L'Obs The first volume of THE GLORIOUS YEARS series, translated by Frank Wynne Beirut, 1948. The Pelletier family returns... The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturin ...Show more
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller'Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it' - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel'A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' - Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie1705. Thea Brandt is about to turn eighteen, and at the the ...Show more
Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement by Ian McEwan
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a res ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’s FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 ‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘A gift’ Guardian ‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail ‘Worth the seven year wait’ Stylist When everything is lost, i ...Show more
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
IN THE DARKNESS OF WAR, THE LIGHT OF BOOKS - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZISTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and libraries to change people's lives' JILL MANSELL'Heart-breaking and heart-lifting and always enchanting' RUTH HOGAN'An irresistible and utterly c ...Show more
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
14.99 NZD
24.99 (40% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature. #1 New York Times Instant Bestseller (February 2018)A People "Bo ...Show more
The Gilded Hour (#1 The Gilded Hour) by Sara Donati
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Gilded Hour #1
"From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wildernesscomes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bri ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the ...Show more