Historical Fiction
The Pleasures Of Men
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Spitalfields, 1840
Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes,... Buy or find out more →
The Red Queen
$24.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes... Buy or find out more →
Lady Of The Rivers
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI.
Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extrao... Buy or find out more →
Belle
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
London 1910
Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of t... Buy or find out more →
A Discovery Of Witches
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life.... Buy or find out more →
The Red Tent
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An international publishing phenomena, this beautiful and thought provoking novel tells the story, lost to history by the chronicles of men, of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter in the Book of Genesis. Description
'My name me... Buy or find out more →
Prophecy: Clash Of Kings Book One
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
Amid the bloody battlefields of Britain, Merlin is marked for greatness...In the town of Segontium, a fugitive is washed ashore. He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the king of the Deceangli tribe, leaving her to bear... Buy or find out more →
The Tea Lords
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Granta
The great masterpiece of the living Dutch novelist most often tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature - a classic tale of the European settlers' experience in the Far East worthy of the great Victorians.... Buy or find out more →
The Bones Of Avalon
$22.99 – Paperback book / Corvus
Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors... can astrologer John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it?
It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne fo... Buy or find out more →
His Last Duchess
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A darkly seductive and luscious story of forbidden love set in 16th century Italy.
When 16-year-old Lucrezia de Medici marries the fifth Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso d’Este, she imagines married life with her handsome husban... Buy or find out more →
Glory Girl
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
London, 1927. The jazz age. Aviators seek to conquer new frontiers in the sky.
Former wartime ace James Harrington has his sights set on being the first person to fly from Britain to Australia in a light aircraft. With s... Buy or find out more →
The Fort
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Summer 1779, a British force of fewer than one thousand Scottish infantry were sent to build a garrison in the State of Maine. The war of Independence was in its third year and no other British troops stood between Canad... Buy or find out more →
The Courier's Tale
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Reginald Pole, diplomat, friend of scholars, cardinals and artists, and cousin to Henry VIII, is first seen stealing into the Medici chapel at dead of night to catch a forbidden glimpse of Michelangelo's masterpiece of f... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Hall
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Go backstage during the most dramatic period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey... Buy or find out more →
Empire Of Silver: Conqueror Book Four
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis′ sons has th... Buy or find out more →
The Botticelli Secret
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and roman... Buy or find out more →
Utopian Man
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyab... Buy or find out more →
The Red Queen
$36.00 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Continuing the tumultuous story of The Cousins War, Philippa tells the tale of a young mother's determined ambition for her son - soon to Henry VII
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, bri... Buy or find out more →
Wildflower Hill
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. But life is not about to ... Buy or find out more →
Fall Of Giants
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams... Buy or find out more →
Insurrection
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The year is 1286 and Scotland is in the grip of one of the worst winters in living memory. Some believe the Day of Judgement has come. The King of Scotland is murdered by one of his squires, a deed pre-meditated by his o... Buy or find out more →
The Pillars Of The Earth
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... Of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect a m... Buy or find out more →