The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times 'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel 'Was this how it was going to be for ever? Wrapping things for customers in womenswear, no conversation. Polishing the counters so her face reflected in the brass and sweeping floors at closing time until the boss said she co ...Show more
Theatre of Marvels by Lianne Dillsworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An immersive historical debut which tells the story of a mixed-race woman who plays a freak on the stage in Victorian London and finds herself caught in a reckoning with her own identity.Crowds gather at Crillick's Variety Theatre, where curiosity is satisfied with displays of intrigue and fear. They're ...Show more
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Bambara Toni Cade
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community-and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. 'A magnus opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison Zala Spencer is b ...Show more
Three Sisters: A breath-taking new novel in The Tattooist of Auschwitz story by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From one of Britain's best-loved writers, the story of three people living secret lives in the tumultuous summer of 1968A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in mak ...Show more
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (Penguin Special) by Daryl Dellora
$12.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Specials
Jorn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House so that every element would be in harmony. But its construction, while it began in just that way, ended in complete discord. The visionary state government that commissioned the project was replaced by one that did not appreciate it and stopped funding it. Utzo ...Show more
V2 by Robert Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war. Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt of sending a ...Show more
Violeta by Isabel Allende
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From Isabel Allende, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea, this is the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth centuryOne extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforg ...Show more
Voices from the Past - A Year of Great Quotations - and the Stories from History That Inspired Them by W B Marsh
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story.