Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
V2 by Robert Harris
$24.00 NZD
Category: Historical
___________________________________'Immersive' Guardian'Stunning' Daily Express'Riveting' Telegraph____________________________________Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed ...Show more
The Gates of Athens (#1 Athenian) by Conn Iggulden
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Athenian
The bestselling author of The Falcon of Sparta returns to the Ancient World with an epic exploration of power 490 B.C. Two great empires are about to go to war . . . The momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems will last for twenty-seven years (431 to 404 BC). I ...Show more
Fortress of Fury (#7 Bernicia Chronicles) by Matthew Harffy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Bernicia Chronicles Ser.
Beobrand is besieged in the action-packed instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles set in AD 647 Anglo-Saxon Britain. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia and his allies march into the north. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces are besieged within the great fortress of Bebbanburg. I ...Show more
City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Cesare Aldo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
City of Vengeance is an explosive debut historical thriller by D. V. Bishop set in Renaissance Florence. Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth. Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of ...Show more
War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 NZD
$35.00 (42% 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
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
Dragonfly In Amber: (Outlander 2) by Diana Gabaldon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES -Now a major TV series. For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it ...Show more
Voyager (#3 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES - NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESJamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Either prospect pales beside the pain of loss - his wife is gone. Forever.But sometimes forever is shorter than one ...Show more
Drums of Autumn (#4 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time - across the grave itself. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (#5 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 1771- the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from ...Show more