Never Surrender by Michael Dobbs
21.99 NZD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston's War. Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb -- pitted in personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler, and with ghosts from his tormented past. F ...Show more
Daisy's Wars by Meg Henderson
23.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A young woman escapes her stifling home town to become a WAAF, little realising the life she will lead as World War Two breaks. Daisy grows up in a Geordie family of Irish descent, which has just one interest: her older sister, a precociously talented singer. Daisy learns early on how to cope with disap ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
25.99 NZD
26.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
Redcoat by Richard Holmes
24.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Redcoat is a wonderful book, doing justice to men who have long deserved a chronicler of Richard Holmes' skill. It is not just a work of history - but of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.' BERNARD CORNWELL Redcoat combines a first-class military historian famous as a TV personality with a Schama-e ...Show more
The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
A haunting story of a woman's desire in a time of turbulence.Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing to support her but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, ...Show more
The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory
21.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret chil ...Show more
Meridon (#3) by Philippa Gregory
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wideacre 3 | Reading Level: very good
In her nighttime dreams she was the favoured child, heir to land, beloved of her family, sleeping soft between linen sheets. But during the day she was bruised, barefoot and hungry.Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelin ...Show more
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
21.99 NZD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Wideacre Trilogy
''I would not leave Wideacre. I would not surrender my place to Harry. If it was the way of the world that girls left home and sons inherited, then the world would have to change. I would never change.''Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey ...Show more
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
25.99 NZD
26.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. A ...Show more
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tudor Court Ser.
*Discover the stunning new unabridged audio edition of The Other Boleyn Girl, available to download this summer* The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. This chance for us ...Show more
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell
22.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the 14th century, dark days fell on the Church as two popes, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, each supported by different political empires, struggled for supremacy. Hearing of a secret which may bring them victory, one side hired a mercenary to retrieve this priceless information.
Element of Fire by Graham, Brendan
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, Ellen Rua O'Malley flees her native land for Boston and the New World: with her are her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' whom Ellen has found wandering among the hordes of the dispossessed. Boston in the 1850s is the hub of the univers ...Show more