Napoleon: #4 The Immortal of St. Helena by Max Gallo
24.99 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1812, Napoleon enters Russia at the head of 500,000 men. An ocean of fire destroys Moscow. A chaos of ice and snow engulfs the Grand Army. For the first time, the Eagle bows its head. From now on, conquered Europe awakes and takes its revenge. The powerful betray him, his old Guard weep at Fontainebl ...Show more
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inman turns his back on the Civil War to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he loves. As Ada struggles to make a living, Inman travels through the war-torn landscape of the Confederate states in his voyage home, encompassing all the tragedy and waste of war.
All The Broken Places (#2 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) by John Boyne
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more
The White Rock by Anna Hope
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a spellbinding narrative of sacrifice and survival, chaos and connection, four characters are caught up in the tides of history over three centuries and drawn to the sacred White Rock of San Blas off the coast of Mexico. In 2020 an Englishwoman travels to give thanks for her child, a singer in 1969 ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, ...Show more
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious ...Show more
The Norse Queen by Johanna Wittenberg
44.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Ninth century Norway -- a land shattered into thirty warring kingdoms, where a woman can seize power, if she is bold enough. Daughter of a Norse king, fifteen-year-old sa prefers swordplay to needlework and dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he attacks, killing her ...Show more
The Raider Bride by Johanna Wittenberg
44.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Ninth-century Norway. King Solvi is dead at the hands of the Irish king. To gain her inheritance, Ragnhild must sail to Ireland with her brother to seek vengeance. But from the outset, the venture is beset by betrayal and bloodshed...
The Falcon Queen by Johanna Wittenberg
44.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Ninth-century Norway, the island of Trom y. sa has won back her father's kingdom, but can she hold it? The evil shapeshifter Hrolf lurks in the hinterlands, plotting revenge. The powerful Danes threaten from across the Skagerrak Sea, demanding marriage in exchange for peace, while her only ally, Olaf, ...Show more
The Queen in the Mound by Johanna Wittenberg
44.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Book 4 of The Norsewomen Series
Mary Jane: a Novel by Jessica Anya Blau
32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm. --Nick Hornby Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught bet ...Show more
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad. "The People Immortal is a remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight" JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reas ...Show more