Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of ...Show more
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a son a ...Show more
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
'An astonishing book' M.W. CRAVEN *Includes an exclusive bonus chapter, only available in ebook* He is my husband. To honour and obey. Until murder do us part. London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husba ...Show more
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Robert Harris' fastest-selling hardback since records began comes to paperback with an unmissable campaign'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES'From what is it they flee?'He t ...Show more
Chloe by Katrina Kell
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
A riveting novel based on the true story of the brave, enigmatic young woman who modelled for one of Australia's most famous paintings. Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reim ...Show more
The Strength of Eggshells by Kirsty Powell
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
The Trackers by Charles Frazier
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to creat ...Show more
The Fates by Rosie Garland
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
You've heard the legends, now hear their truth . . . Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity. But immortality is a heavy burden, and Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos are captivated by the glo ...Show more
The Shadow Sister: The Seven Sisters Book 3 by Lucinda Riley
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: The Seven Sisters
Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster.Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved fathe ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more