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
The Snail On The Slope by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide ...Show more
The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more
The Son by Philipp Meyer
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
"An epic journey spanning a century and a half in Texas, America.Eli McCullough was born in 1836, the year that the Republic of Texas was declared an independent state. He was the first child of this new republic. Eight years later he and his brother are kidnapped. They are left with nothing, barely the ...Show more
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar. Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour o ...Show more
The Story of Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Having been diagnosed with hysteria in 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital for sixteen years. Under the care of the famous M. Charcot she was regularly displayed before a public audience in a cataleptic state. Over time the nature of her participation in these demonstrations chan ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$17.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In one of the most fascinating works of fiction of all time, Stevenson examines the inner conflict between good and evil. Lawyer Gabriel Utterson hears of an ambiguous, solitary, violent man called Edward Hyde, who is said to have trampled over a young girl in the street, leaving her bruised and terrifi ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable novel of England's Civil War, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight. Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. ...Show more
The Sword Saint (#3 Empire of Salt) by C. F. Iggulden
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Empire of Salt
Conn Iggulden is back with the spellbinding third instalment in the EMPIRE OF SALT trilogy.