Kept by D. J. Taylor
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Irela ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (tr from French Sandra Smith)
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sixty-two years after an emigrant Russian Jew died at Auschwitz, her unpublished work about occupied France is taking the world by storm. 'Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book.' The Telegraph. 'A profoundly felt meditation on the nature of freedom, and the ...Show more
Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster
55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
With the wonderfully satisfying appeal of Forster's bestselling "Diary of an Ordinary Woman" and the historical delights of "Lady's Maid", this engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th century painting and the women whose lives it tou ...Show more
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on the history of Alice MunroâÃÂÃÂs ScottishâÃÂÃÂCanadian family and her own life, this latest book of short fiction may be her last, the 75-year-old says. Geraldine Brooks, reviewing The View from Castle Rock in the Washington Post, enthuses: âÃÂÃÂMunro really does know mag ...Show more
The Road to Cana (#2 Christ the Lord) by Anne Rice
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Anne Rice's second book in her life of Christ begins in the last winter of the âhidden yearsâ, culminates with 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness, and concludes with a miracle â the turning of water into wine at the marriage at Cana. In a vivid and moving narrative, Anne Rice recreates that m ...Show more
Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
17.99 NZD
19.95 (9% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
A captivating tale of two remarkable and extraordinary young people - Marnie, a courageous young woman, and Raver, a strange and spirited young man - whose only real crimes are that they are different. Set within a chilling world of predjudices and hypocrisy, ignorance and self-righteousness, The Raging ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1901, a young frontiersman named Peter Force comes to New York City and finds a job digging the first subway tunnels. Into his path falls the beautiful mathematical prodigy Cheri-Anne Toledo, whose memories appear to come from another world: the long-forgotten Kingdom of Ohio. Could she have stumbled ...Show more
White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
White Rose Rebel is the story of a couple torn apart and set against each other, finding themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield during the Jacobite Rebellion. Anne Farquharson is elated when the Jacobites rebel in 1745 and horrified when her husband joins the government army. She raises his cla ...Show more
Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Based on a little-known chapter of world history, Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson is a book that will delight readers who loved The Island, The Historian, and Labyrinth. And in a weird and inexorable twist of fate, it has drawn the author into the power of its narrative and changed her life forever, too.. ...Show more
The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Lohr
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion.The chess machine is ...Show more