The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood filled with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house, his Uncle Potter's free-soi ...Show more
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly a ...Show more
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empir ...Show more
Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve ...Show more
Daughter of the Crocodile by Duncan Sprott
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt are powerful; irresponsible; dangerous. It's 279 BC and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptilian sister, who wants to marry him herself. A generation later, and Berenike Beta murders her husband and marries Ptolemy Euergetes instead. But with the glory o ...Show more
The Observations by Jane Harris
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her "missus" demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories, and mysterious disappearances.
The House of the Eagle (The Ptolemies - Book 1) by Duncan Sprott
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The House of the Eagle begins Duncan Sprott's Ptolemies Quartet, an epic story of the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve generations from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of Cleopatra. Narrated by Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing and wisdom, The ...Show more
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is ...Show more
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
35.00 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers f ...Show more
The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Funny, irreverent and passionate, The Secret of Scent opens the lid on two worlds - the glamorous and highly lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science. Smell is our forgotten sense. Long neglected by science in favour of more prestigious areas of researc ...Show more
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists goes missing and is feared murdered, their master seeks outside help.