Author: | Ken Follett |
Category: |
Historical |
Series: | The Kingsbridge Novels |
Reading Level: | very good |
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed... read more
Author: | Steven Carroll |
Category: |
Historical |
Series: | The\Eliot Quartet Ser. |
The latest, immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award 'Why do some nights feel a... read more
Author: | Jacqueline O'Mahony |
Category: |
Historical |
Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets.
A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O'Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan
1919
Ireland is about to be torn apart by the War of Independence.
Hannah O'Donovan ... read more
Author: | Miriam Sved |
Category: |
Historical |
Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
I have wished so many times that I had acted differently.I wish that I had been more worthy of you...Eventually the war will end, and then we will find each other. Until then, remember me.
Hungary, 1938. In a city park, beneath one of its bleakly looming statu... read more
Author: | Peter Yeldham |
Category: |
Historical |
Luke Elliott and Claudia Marsden have fallen in love at a perilous time. The Second World War is raging in the Pacific, barbed wire and gun emplacements are strung along the northern beaches in preparation for invasion. As the war moves closer, their 'sextet' of loyal school friends ... read more
Author: | Erich Maria Remarque |
Category: |
Historical |
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving sto... read more
Author: | Di Morrissey |
Category: |
Historical |
Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love... read more
Author: | Sara Dowse |
Category: |
Historical |
'It was Clara. My name is Chava now.'
'Forgive me, Chava, ' said Gesia. 'But you know, I would never have taken you for a Zionist. Such a staunch one, in any case, to want to give up your name.'
Three Russian-Jewish women are flung from their homes in the Ukraine and B... read more
Author: | Kate Forsyth |
Category: |
Historical |
A spellbinding reimagining of 'Sleeping Beauty' set amongst the wild bohemian circle of Pre-Raphaelite artists and poets. The Pre-Raphaelites were determined to liberate art and love from the shackles of convention. Ned Burne-Jones had never had a painting lesson and his famil... read more
Author: | Lisa Wingate |
Category: |
Historical |
1 MILLION COPIES SOLD OVER 30 WEEKS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER LIST'S TOP TEN WINNER OF GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2017 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD
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Memphis, Tennessee, 1939
Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger ... read more
Author: | Marlon James |
Category: |
Historical |
Series: | Dark Star Trilogy |
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter... read more
Author: | Joanna Courtney |
Category: |
Historical |
Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story . . . Scotland, 1020 AD - King Malcolm II is fading fast. It is North vs South, for two families have a claim on the inh... read more