Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: Historical
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't.It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others.Nick Wheatley has finished high school, but he isn't ready for the rest of his life. His parents are getting divorced, his sister is downright weird and his best friend and nei ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$36.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is a mysterious, transporting tale about the unbreakable bond of sisterhood, from the author of the critically acclaimed Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter. London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the ...Show more
All The Broken Places: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and dist ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.'Here, Ariadne takes centre stage in a lyrical, insightful re-telling that explores her motivations and emotions and the grievances caused by grumpy, ...Show more
Circe: The special edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller by Madeline Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe g ...Show more
Doll's Eye by Leah Kaminsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Vivid, haunting, unforgettable.LUCY TRELOARHas magnificent qualities of humane invention. It is my nomination for a book to read at the end of times.TOM KENEALLYSometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of ...Show more
Elektra: The mesmerising story of Troy from the three women its heart by Jennifer Saint
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
**The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.**'The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW'I was glued to it from beginning to end and could not wait t ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more