The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
The bestselling, breathtaking debut about love and war, and the battle to save a precious legacy Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way - with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine as gossamer, each life affected by what has come before it and what will come after. 1941, Estonia. ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light (#3 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Thomas Cromwell
The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall ...Show more
The Fish by Lloyd Jones
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Another powerful, innovative and unique novel from the extraordinary author of the Man-Booker shortlisted Mr Pip. Then she lifts the Fish up from the basinet and holds him out to me. 'Go on, take him.' And to the Fish she says, 'This is your uncle.' It is a bit like catching a hastily thrown ball. She l ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds hims ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves. 'Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ... 'A very special, very clever, very entertaining novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Padd ...Show more
Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
Bella loves men - she loves them to death . . . The compulsively readable and deliciously dark reimagining of the life of America's first female serial killerEarly in life Bella discovers the world is made for men. They own everything. But Bella sees what few others do- where women are concerned, men ar ...Show more
Wuhan by John Fletcher
27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence.'Fletcher impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his characters realistic, even if they only appear briefly, and excels at portraying the horrors of war and the moral chal ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
China by Edward Rutherfurd
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMES The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to for ...Show more
Protector (#2 Athenian) by Conn Iggulden
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Athenian
'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid life...I'm blown away' - Anthony Riches. From the nation's finest historical novelist comes the second instalment in the Athenian series Themistocles stands as an archon of Athens- the might of the city is his to command. Yet he is no nobleman, distrusted by man ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge #0) prequel by Ken Follett
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' - The TimesA Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and ...Show more