A God for the Killing by Kain Massin
15.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Judith, a daring and beautiful woman, hardened by her life as a slave and angered by the treatment of her people, the inhabitants of Nazareth, becomes a feared and powerful figure beginning with the brutal assassination and decapitation of an enemy general. Hoping to retire as a free woman and into obsc ...Show more
Act of Faith (#1) by Kelly Gardiner
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Act of Faith
England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father's radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell's army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means to survive, Isabella finds work with an elderly printer, Master de Aquila, and his e ...Show more
The Secret Fate of Mary Watson by Judy Johnson
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1879. Having just fled her parents' home in Rockhampton, 19-year-old Mary Oxnam is penniless and living in a Brisbane boarding house. With few prospects and no connections, the only things she can really rely on are her audacious intelligence and wits to find a job. Mary soon finds herself working as a ...Show more
The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots by Jesse Blackadder
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This sweeping, imaginative and original epic tale of political intrigue, misplaced loyalty, and passion and betrayal is loosely based on real characters and events from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. It is a well-researched, breathtaking and assured debut from a bold, fresh Australian voice
Mr Shakespeares Bastard by Richard B. Wright
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In failing health, Aerlene Ward, an elderly housekeeper in an Oxfordshire manor, feels compelled to confess the incredible secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare, England s most famous playwright. But will anyone believe her? Even Charlotte, the young mi ...Show more
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
The Caribbean, 1665. The island of Jamaica is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica's capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoid of London's luxuries; life here can end sw ...Show more
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
36.99 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end sw ...Show more
That Perfect Someone by Johanna Lindsey
36.99 NZD
37.90 (2% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Nine years ago free-spirited Richard Allen fled England when his avaricious father, the Earl of Manford, betrothed him to Julia Miller, the young daughter of London's wealthiest merchant. Having seen how an arranged marriage ruined his older brother's prospects for happiness, Richard takes to the sea de ...Show more
The Rebel Princess by Judith Koll Healey
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The sequel to The Lost Letters of Aquitaine brings back Alais, princess of France, in another thrilling adventure. There is nothing that Alais, princess of France, wishes more than to settle down with her lover, William of Caen, and to tell his ward Francis that she is his mother. But intrigue is afoot ...Show more
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Aminata Diallo ("an amazing literary creation," Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill's SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman's life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells ...Show more
Secret Life of Josephine by Carolly Erickson
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The intimate story of France's infamous Empress Josephine ...Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine possesses an exotic Creole appeal which would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire and over the heart of the quixotic, dangerous general, Napoleon. Josephine is ambitious, unscrupu ...Show more
Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinet by Carolly Erickson
26.99 NZD
29.00 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
A compelling novel of the legendary Queen of France, in the tradition of Philippa Gregory's books. Intimate and irresistible, this is the story of Marie Antoinette, one of the most notorious women in history, told in her own words... On the night before she is to be executed, Marie Antoinette leav ...Show more