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War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$29.99 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty ...Show more
Lana's War by Anita Abriel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Paris 1943. Lana Antanov is rushing to see her husband, Frederic, and tell him the news that she is pregnant. But as she arrives the convent where Frederic teaches music, she watches in horror as a Gestapo officer executes Frederic for hiding a Jewish girl in a piano. Overcome with grief, Lana loses the ...Show more
The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott
$12.99 NZD
$22.99 (43% off)
Category: Historical
**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK** Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and 1917 If someone you loved went missing, would you ever stop searching for them? ''This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war'' The Times ''[An] impressive debut... a touching nove ...Show more
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Naïve Evangeline lost her position as a governess and her grip on her destiny when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock. After spending months in Newgate prison, she doesn't know whether she should be grateful or despairing when she is moved to a prison ship. What she does know is that her child wi ...Show more
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
In 1950s Chicago a former scientist on the Manhattan Project finds herself torn between two men: the physicist she loved passionately during the war, and the handsome, wounded FBI agent now investigating him for espionage, in this breathtaking novel of betrayal, love, desire, and secrets. Chicago, 195 ...Show more
The Burning Land (#5 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Following on from the bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown. June 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become e ...Show more
The Lioness Wakes (Birth of the Plantagenets #4) by Blanche d'Alpuget
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Birth of the Plantagenets Ser.
England, 1171. Thomas Becket is dead, beheaded at the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. As news of his assassination spreads across the country and into Europe, Henry's reputation as a just and mighty king begins to disintegrate. Eleanor, no longer loyal, nor in awe of her husband, instigates the revolt ...Show more
The Cubs Roar (#5 Birth of the Plantagenets) by Blanche d'Alpuget
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Eleanor of Aquitaine has disappeared. After launching a great rebellion to destroy her husband Henry II's reign, it seems she has abandoned her sons in the struggle against their formidable father. As treachery radiates from Scotland to the Pyrenees, tension between the kings of France and England erupt ...Show more
The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes
$24.00 NZD
Category: Historical
''An absorbing and engaging tale of wartime bravery and endurance. Bill and Izabela are such tenderly drawn characters ... I loved it!'' RACHEL HORE, author of Last Letter Home and The Memory Garden _______________________________ Their love is a death sentence. But can it keep them alive? Czechoslovaki ...Show more
The Pull of the Stars (PB) by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two o ...Show more