The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Empress Josephine's family has been called to Napoleon's court for the terrible news that he intends to divorce his barren wife of thirteen years and take a younger bride, the Austrian Princess Marie-Louise. For Josephine's daughter, Hortense, this means she is free to leave her husband, Napoleon's brot ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Absolutely loving this . . . A great storyteller and a fabulous actor. Well done, sir!' DAVID HAREWOOD 'Phenomenal! Highly recommended' MALORIE BLACKMAN, author of Noughts and Crosses 'Sings with the words of a man who survives his struggles, and expresses himself through music, language and love' GRET ...Show more
The Secret Guests by B. W. Black
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World War It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public of their solidarity. But what of the two young princesses - Elizabeth and Margar ...Show more
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
$29.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laure ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator); Rachel Seiffert (Introduction by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: VIRAGO MODEWRN CLASSICS
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right f ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Shadow King by Harry Sidebottom
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Alexander of Macedon was just twenty years old in 334BC when he set out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world. The Macedonians marched East into the unknown, won battles against overwhelming odds, stormed impregnable fortresses. In the deserts and mount ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Meanwhile, Mussolini's hundred ...Show more
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Alexandra Boyd has travelled to Bulgaria hoping to salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. But a luggage mix-up soon after she arrives finds her holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to return the precious item to its owners she finds ever more obstacles in her ...Show more
The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Cadiz, 1811. Spain is battling for independence while America is doing the same. But in the streets of the most liberal city in Europe other battles are taking place. A serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near the site where a French bomb has ju ...Show more
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
By Norway's bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. "An intricate story about war, family, secrets and, yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times "So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its con ...Show more