Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. by Kerry Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Inspired by the true story of Bill Smith (1886-1975), who may have been Australia's first trans jockey. A moving, tender debut novel about identity, solitude and the human spirit. A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smi ...Show more
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary's dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistres ...Show more
The Zone of Interest (FTI) by Martin Amis
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Th ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles...San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
'Powerful and compelling' - Delia Owens, number one international bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million-copy number one bestselling author o ...Show more
The Last Line by Stephen Ronson
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: John Cook Ser.
John Cook is the Jack Reacher of 1940's Britain' - Damien Lewis May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst ...Show more
The Great Alone: A story of love, heartbreak and survival from the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From the worldwide number one bestselling author of The Four Winds and The Nightingale. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss.'A master storyteller' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival, as ...Show more