Historical Fiction

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, Sydney, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis saga introduces readers to a vibrant cast of characters. They confront the...

Author: Belva PlainBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, London, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel follows the fortunes of the Werner family, German Jewish immigrants in New York....

Author: John IrvingBinding: HardbackPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1985Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel tells the story of Homer Wells, an orphan who grows...

Author: Thomas KeneallyBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1986Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel tells a story of familial bonds tested by secrets and the weight of history. A...

Author: Catherine CooksonBinding: HardbackPublished: DeAgostini UK Ltd / Planet Three Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsA woman stands near a fireplace, cradling a...

Author: Barry HillBinding: HardbackPublished: McPhee Gribble Publishers, Melbourne, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a narrative, potentially exploring themes of human relationships, art, or historical...

Author: Joseph ConradBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2002Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJoseph Conrad (born Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski 1857 – 1924) was a Polish novelist. Conrad...

The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" ( O, The...

From the New York Times bestselling cartoonist behind Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales comes a wacky graphic novel series! What happens when a couple of prehistoric creatures want to become Internet...

What better way for a young reader to truly understand another time than to get an intimate look at the daily life of another child? In On a Canadian Day...

Huge scaly DRAGONS roamed the land In long gone days of olde. They LOVED to wear big underpants In colours bright and bold. With flaming holes in their undies, a...

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the...

Maitland has dug into some obscure corners of medieval history to produce an almost parallel universe; a place where myth, magic, and superstition take over as the established order breaks...

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love--all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest...

* A murderous madmen leads a shipload of innocents to hell and back *"I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer,...

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And...

Discover the history of our lifetime through the adventure of a girl and her wolf, in the bestselling children's novel from Digging for Britain presenter, Professor Alice Roberts. Selected as...

A romantic and exhilarating historical adventure about a girl who must unlock the secrets within Paradise Lost to save her father--perfect for fans of Revolution and Code Name Verity --from...

First in a full-color graphic novel series for emerging readers about accepting yourself and others from up-and-coming author-illustrator Meggie Ramm, creator of the comic strip The Littlest Dungeon Guard and...

1813 Numb after the pain of an intolerable betrayal, 19 year old Alexandra Broughton turns to her only source of hope a" an arranged marriage. Resolutely accepting this as her...

After she steals a bonnet, Mary becomes a prisoner on a ship bound for Australia.

Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that...

Author: D. H. Lawrence & M. L. SkinnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan Australia, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA young man, born in England, finds himself transplanted to the...

Author: Xavier HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1961Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel portrays the lives and relationships of soldiers and women during a time of conflict....

Author: Elizabeth JenkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe magnetic Evelyn Gresham, fifty-two, is a KC of considerable distinction. He has everything life...

Author: Mrs. Rundle CharlesBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Nelson and Sons , 1891Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis narrative follows the Schönberg-Cotta family. The story unfolds through...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOliver Twist begins as a penniless orphan in a workhouse. Society mistreats him, and he escapes to...

Author: Norman Verschuer WallaceBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Australia, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative transports you to the rugged landscapes of the Australian outback, where a young...

Author: Danielle SteelBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA Japanese woman faces immense cultural challenges and personal sacrifices. She marries an American man, and their...

Author: MacNeill, Hannah (edited by Rev. H.B. Macartney and introduction by Rev. D.S. McEachran)Binding: HardbackPublished: Marshall Brothers, London, 1897Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography...

Author: Arnold BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2004Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Old Wives' Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance...

Author: Henry FieldingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA man recounts the story of Jonathan Wild. He lived in a world of crime...

Author: Henry FieldingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, London, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA picaresque novel follows the journey and experiences of Joseph Andrews and his friend...

Author: Joseph ConradBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel presents a story of political upheaval and greed in the fictional South American...

Author: Frederick BuechnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGodric lives as a hermit in the woods. He wrestles with his past sins and...

Author: Sinclair BuchanBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA young man stands in a wooded area, his trench coat and scarf suggesting a...

Author: George EliotBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1999Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection contains several novels. Silas Marner tells a story about a weaver. Adam Bede...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA young man faces numerous challenges and adventures as he navigates the complexities of 18th-century...

Author: Thornton WilderBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1956Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSet in 18th-century Peru, divine intervention and the human condition come to the forefront. A...

Author: Mary DurackBinding: HardbackPublished: London, Constable, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel follows a family's experiences in the Australian outback. The narrative encompasses themes of land...

'This captivating series of adventures is ideal for those who love whimsical humour' Guardian, Best Children's Books of the Year Written by Carnegie and Costa Award-winning author Sally Gardner and...

"A powerful must-read."- Booklist (starred review) Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story...

Most dogs in this world are content with their doggy lives, playing dead and burying bones, but Diogenes was a dog of a different sort - he wanted to become...

'A triumph. Brilliant, brutal, captivating, heartstopping, heart-wrenching, and with the best kick-ass feminist female characters ever. I adored it!' - Sinead Moriarty Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a...

'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMES DANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREE From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him...

A special limited edition, author signed hardcover for the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, this is the powerful story of a 16-year-old volunteer and his horse in...

' Wonderful ... I loved The Midnight House' RACHEL HORE, Sunday Times bestselling author of One Moonlit Night ' Love love love this book! Fabulous female characters . . ....