Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him - would deliver Russia - and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness - the terror by ni ...Show more
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Autumn,1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war ha ...Show more
Twelve by Jasper Kent
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee forded the River Niemen and crossed the Rubicon - its invasion of Russia had begun. Charged with delaying the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow, a group of Russian officers summon the help of the oprichniki, a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of ...Show more
Memnon by Scott Oden
25.99 NZD
27.70 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A con ...Show more
Warrior by Allan Mallinson
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Matthew Hervey Series
Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is urgently summoned to the Cape Colony when he learns that the Zulu warrior King Shaka is about to wage war. Soon Hervey, his old friend Eyre Somervile and their escort of dragoons and mounted rifles are riding north. When they arrive at Shaka's kraal it is a ho ...Show more
The Terror by Dan Simmons
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-W ...Show more
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople. Henry, King of England, is displeased. The Jews provide a large part ...Show more
The Death Maze (Mistress of the Art of Death #2) by Ariana Franklin
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Adelia Aguilar Ser.
At King Henry II's court, terrible things are happening. His Queen, Eleanor, is stirring up revolt against her husband. Rumour has it she has poisoned Fair Rosamund - the King's mistress. In a race to prove Eleanor's innocence, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is recruited to help avoid a c ...Show more
Men of Bronze by Scott Oden
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
526 BC and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crumbling under the weight of its own antiquity. Corruption and decay cripple its cities, infects its leaders and cripples its armies, while across the great expanse of Sinai, like jackals drawn to carrion, the forces of the omnipotent king of Persia watch ...Show more
Rome: The Emperor's Spy by M. C. Scott
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Rome is burning. Only one man can save it. The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome and all her provinces, feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn. The Spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the Roman Legions, is ordered to ...Show more
Company of Spears by Allan Mallinson
26.99 NZD
34.00 (20% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Matthew Hervey Series
1827, and Matthew Hervey is on the look out for a new posting. He soon finds one in the Cape Colonies, where there is need of a man to re-organise the local forces, and in particular to form a new company of horse. Accompanied by a mixed-race captain from the disbanded Royal African Corps, Hervey head ...Show more
Lilah by Marek Halter
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
I can't be with those who throw stones at women and children. It's beyond me. Beyond my love for Ezra. Beyond my respect for God. In 397 BC, in Susa, the opulent capital of the Persian empire, where the Jews are living in exile, young Lilah is destined for a happy life: she is due to marry Antinoes, a g ...Show more