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Above the Fold by Yeldham, Peter
$24.99 AUD
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 is splintering as in ...Show more
Bystanders: Echoes of Stories Past by Valerie Volk
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Who remembers the onlookers on the sidelines of big events? Such bystanders as the deposed queen Vashti, the blood-stained murdering grandmother Athaliah, the bluff soldier in King David's army, or the desperately searching mother Phoebe? In Bystanders Valerie Volk has created fifteen absorbing characte ...Show more
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2 | Reading Level: very good
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow (#9 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Historical | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd lost and more. But Nancy's stor ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
Dragons in the Forest by Yeldham, Peter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
For much of the World War II conflict, Japan had been a safe haven for its citizens, far, far away from Germany's relentless advance in Europe and the daily horrors of such events as the London blitz, concentration camps and the fall of France. But Alex Faure always felt that one day the war would come ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
River God: The Egyptian Series 1 by Wilbur Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From master storyteller Wilbur Smith, the first novel in his bestselling Egyptian Series.
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields i ...Show more
That Bligh Girl by Sue Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A fascinating story of Governor Bligh's trouble-making daughter, Mary, a powerful and determined woman from the bestselling author ofElizabeth and Elizabeth. 'Superb narration and engrossing drama.' Tom Keneally Mary Bligh is no shrinking violet. After an horrific six-month sea voyage from Britain, sh ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more