Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Catch-22 (TVTI) by Joseph Heller
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A classic I somehow failed to read until this year, but inspired by George Clooney’s TV series I took the plunge and was soon having many spontaneous laugh-out-loud moments. Incredibly funny wi ...Show more
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don’t care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. Besides, I’m hungover. And I think I might throw up … In 1936 intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake is living in Paris after witnessing firsthan ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
$21.00 NZD
$23.00 (8% off)
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Falling Sky (Warrior of Rome #9) by Harry Sidebottom
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The new book in the much-loved, bestselling Warrior of Rome historical thriller series. AD 265, Gaul - The Roman Empire is on the brink. Emperor Gallienus has amassed a huge army across the Alps to seize back the mountains from the usurper Posthumus. War has come. Ballista and his cavalry are on the fro ...Show more
Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance by Bea Fitzgerald
$36.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The feminist myths of Madeline Miller meet the #spice of Sarah J. Maas (with a hefty slice of Bridgerton's sexy, witty banter) in this fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy retelling from a growing TikTok superstarTo hell with love, this goddess has other plans...Thousands of years ago, the gods t ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$15.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Cicero 1 | Reading Level: very good
'Masterful' Sunday Times Ancient Rome is the setting for the stunning new novel from Robert Harris, the number one bestselling author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel and Pompeii. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$15.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic (Book of Japanese Mythology, Folk Tales from Japan) by Chronicle Books
$55.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Tales Ser.
A goblin with no body and a monster with no face.A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter.A spirit of the moon and a dragon king. This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Ye ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ,A Pure Woman Faithfully PresentedThomas Hardy"Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to t ...Show more