A Column of Fire (PB) - TRADE by Ken Follett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral l ...Show more
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London
A Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
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A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices, echoes, she ...Show more
A Florentine Death by Michele Giuttari
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Michele Ferrara
Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his superiors and pilloried by the media, Ferrara fin ...Show more
A Hollow Crown by Helen Hollick
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England. Inept and arrogant, Aethelred is loathed by his young wife, whom he punishes for his many failings as a ruler. Their first son, Edward, is born through an act of violence that is ...Show more
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A ...Show more
A Jewish Girl in Paris by Melanie Levensohn
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Christian, son of a bank director, falls in love with Jewish girl Judith. The young couple secretly plan to flee, but suddenly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search. Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses ...Show more
A Narnia Chronology by C. S. Lewis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Since the mid-1990s, there has been increasing interest in reassessing the role Ronald Reagan and his administration played in ending the Cold War. A number of books have shed much-needed light on their sophisticated strategy to undermine the Soviet Union's control of its satellites and to weaken its do ...Show more
A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Set in an era of turbulent social changes, A Place Called Freedom is a magnificent novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett.A Life of PovertyScotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, ...Show more
A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big player of the city . But he needs capital and a well-connected wife.Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Tra ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$48.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more