My Lady Judge by Cora Harrison
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of grey stone forts, fields of rich green grass and swirling mountain terraces. It was also home to an independent kingdom that lived peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears. On the first ...Show more
Charlie's War by David Fiddimore
25.00 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
My old skipper once told me to always expect the unexpected. I should have listened to him... When a plane crash leaves Charlie Bassett rested from the RAF, he receives unexpected orders - to locate the elusive, pregnant Grace Baker and bring her home. But Grace, who has been following the armed fo ...Show more
Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of Physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec's dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town. Alec recognizes it as childbed fever. Desperate to save his patients' lives, Alec sets out on an aston ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth (#1 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known ...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul ...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secr ...Show more
Dark Fire (Shardlake #2) by C. J. Sansom
23.99 NZD
27.99 (14% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Shardlake
It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cous ...Show more
In the Shadow of Lady Jane by Edward Charles
25.99 NZD
29.99 (13% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
It is April 1551. While the family of Lord Henry Grey are visiting their Devon estate, the Grey sisters are saved from drowning by a local medical apprentice, Richard Stocker. Little does Richard know that this single act will plunge him into a tide of religious and social upheaval which will change not ...Show more
The Lost Army by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The 4th century BC. A village in Syria. A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead...Her story encompasses one of the great colle ...Show more
Godiva by Nerys Jones
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Britain, 1045. The Normans are circling, waiting their turn to pounce on the English throne and wrest it away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. King Edward the Confessor, the childless, half Norman 'Virgin King' does his Machiavellian best to aid them. Everything centres on the succession. Earl Lovric of Mer ...Show more
Pirate (Sea Robber - Book 3) by Tim Severin
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn and when his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru, he learns that Maria, the young Spanish woman wh ...Show more
The Lady and the Poet by Maeve Haran
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Ann More and her four sisters have been brought up in the beautiful country house of Loseley, near Guildford in Surrey, by their grandparents, Sir William and the Lady Margaret More. Their only brother, Robert, lives with his pompous father and shrewish step-mother nearby. But though the sisters are clo ...Show more
The Cobras of Calcutta by Grant Sutherland
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Decipherer's Chronicle
In the fifty years between 1757 and 1815, Britain lost an empire, won another and emerged from the epic Napoleonic wars as the greatest power the world had ever seen. But no empire comes about by accident. The spread of British power was fuelled by the ambition and zeal of a host of larger-than-life per ...Show more
Exile by Patrick Rambaud
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
With the enemy massing on the shores of the Marne, the reduced forces of Mortier and Marmont turn back towards Paris, and Augereau retreats to Valence. Meanwhile, Bordeaux is occupied by Wellington's men, and the Russians, Prussians and Austrians are converging on the French capital. Elsewhere, Davout h ...Show more