Picasso's Lovers by Jeanne Mackin
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame - until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas, Alana steps into Sara Murphy's well-guarded ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What ar ...Show more
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A dark psychological page-turner about an inexperienced teacher who builds a powerful - and ultimately dangerous - connection with her students. The Secret History meets Notes on a Scandal.
The Burnings by Naomi Kelsey
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Inspired by an incredible true story, by a multi-awardwinning new star of historical fiction 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of King James VI and Princess A ...Show more
The Glutton by A. K. Blakemore
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches. Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's room. ...Show more
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Gorgeous prose, attention to detail and masterful characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS, STARRED REVIEW From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Ci ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
40.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
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
Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Was the greatest love story of all time a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father d ...Show more
Loot by Tania James
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at the height of her powers. 'Loot held me spellbound from the first page.' Maggie O'Farrell An epic tale of plundered treasure, savage ...Show more
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation in West Java. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, ...Show more
The God of That Summer by Ralf Rothmann; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it, from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring. As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are forced from their homes by bombing, compell ...Show more