The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
50.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882-83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised histo ...Show more
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World W ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
38.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Ghosts of the Past by Tony Park
35.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller
Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death.Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for his help with a story.Susan is chasing information about Nic ...Show more
Preservation by Jock Serong
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War, and its effects on their marriage, behind them.Back home in England, Rosie's sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches ...Show more
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixtee ...Show more