The Shadow King by Harry Sidebottom
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Alexander of Macedon was just twenty years old in 334BC when he set out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world. The Macedonians marched East into the unknown, won battles against overwhelming odds, stormed impregnable fortresses. In the deserts and mount ...Show more
Ashes In The Snow by Oriana Ramunno
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Hugo Fischer Ser.
A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943.A young Jewish prisoner...Auschwitz, 1943. It's snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer.A detective with everything ...Show more
Turn a Blind Eye: William Warwick Book 3 by Jeffrey Archer
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: William Warwick Novels Ser.
In the third instalment in the life of Detective William Warwick, following on from <i>Hidden in Plain Sight</i>, international bestseller Jeffrey Archer once again displays his mastery at the art of storytelling. Detective Inspector William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of wor ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relative ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggli ...Show more
Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What ar ...Show more
Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Well, it’s not. This is the story of everyone else:Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll te ...Show more
Boots on Mossies & Other Stories by Tim Gilbertson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Boots on Mossies – Tim Gilbertson This unique memoir depicts the reality of the two world wars and of our soldiers who fought there. Drawing on recounted memories of those who were part of the action and the thoughts of those who heard them, Tim has created narratives that honour those memories. He ...Show more
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
The sensational historical fiction debut from Sunday Times bestseller Dan Jones. A BBC History 2022 Book of the Year! July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs to the men on the ground.Swept up in the bloody chaos, a ...Show more
Forest of Foes (#9 Bernicia) by Matthew Harffy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Bernicia Chronicles Ser.
Beobrand finds himself caught between the perilous intrigues of royalty and the Church in this latest thrilling Bernicia Chronicles adventure. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims to the holy city of Rome. Chief among them is Wilfrid, a novice of the Church with some surprisingl ...Show more