The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though it is rumored to be haunted, Alexandrina and her lady's maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: very good
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire, the "monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth (TV Tie-In) (#1 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
"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 se ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and fa ...Show more
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: African Collection | Reading Level: very good
First with your head and then with your heart.... So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by ra ...Show more
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request that Meta find the manuscript's true owner - a Prague frien ...Show more
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Music and war, war and music--these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, The Prague Sonata, a novel more than a dozen years in the making. In the early days of the new mil ...Show more
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #3 | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling author of The Shadow of the Windtakes us back to the shadowy streets of Barcelona and the world of the Sempere and Sons bookshop. Continuing the story of The Shadow of the Windand The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heavenleads us to the enigma at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Boo ...Show more
The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie BROOKES
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis as partisans. They've evaded capture in the countryside for a week, b ...Show more
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Tudor Court Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory. The rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion. The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, ...Show more
The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz; Sophie Lambert
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'The Red Daughter is an intimate, intricate look at the collision of geopolitics with a private life: surprising and engaging from beginning to end' - Jennifer Egan 'John Burnham Schwartz has drawn such a fine and generous portrait of Stalin's daughter - a difficult, complicated, and deeply sympathetic ...Show more
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'She was looking at me as if she knew everything about me, as if she'd known me for years.' From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, ...Show more