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
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
95.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
The Pearl Sister (#4 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: The Seven Sisters
CeCe D'Apli se has always felt like an outcast. But after the death of her father -- a reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe -- she feels more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her familial orig ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when thei ...Show more
Prize Women by Caroline Lea
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
On his deathbed in 1920s Toronto, a wealthy man decides to make some trouble . . . An astonishing new novel based on one of history's most shocking untold stories, from the author of The Metal Heart Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once friends. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other ...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
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
The Shadow King by Harry Sidebottom
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Alexander of Macedon was just twenty years old in 334BC when he set out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world. The Macedonians marched East into the unknown, won battles against overwhelming odds, stormed impregnable fortresses. In the deserts and mount ...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
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 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