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
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 (#3 The Seven Sisters) 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
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 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
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
The Seven Sisters (#1) by Lucinda Riley
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: The Seven Sisters (#1) | Reading Level: very good
Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"-a fabulous, secluded castle that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.Maia and her sister were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, eac ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The Thirteen-Gun Salute #13 by Patrick O'Brian
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Ser.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the thirt ...Show more
The Leonard Girls by Deborah Challinor
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Rowie's pro-war, her sister Jo's a protester. And they're both in Vietnam. The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the Ashes In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded ...Show more
Jason by Mark Knowles
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Blades of Bronze Ser.
Packed with action, adventure, and intrigue, Jason is a bold and thrilling historical epic steeped in Greek mythology, perfect for fans of Christian Cameron and Madeline Miller.Jason has fulfilled the mission set him by his uncle, the scheming King Pelias of Iolkos: he and the Argonauts have won the fab ...Show more