The Bride of Almond Tree
A love story about loyalty, belief and idealism, set against the epic sweep of twentieth-century history. World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunningham returns home to Almond Tree. He served as a stretcher-bearer; he's seen his fair share of horror. Now he intends to build beautiful houses and...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Booklover's Library
A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that bring them together. In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job to provide for herself and her beloved daughter, Olivia. But with legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment opportunities, she's left with only...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Blue Maiden
It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's dark past and their absent mother, whom...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Birdman's Wife
A woman overshadowed by history steps back into the light . . . Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before, but her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. Now, The Birdman's Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit, who was...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories
'The bravest thing God ever made,' said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, 'I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this morning'. But there is more to the Australian experience of war than heroic endeavour and bravery. Jim Haynes has rediscovered...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Bee and the Orange Tree
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: fairy tales. When Marie Catherine's daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Autumn Murders
The series that began with The Holiday Murders and The Port Fairy Murders now continues with The Autumn Murders... In the autumn of 1944, George Starling prepares to exact revenge on the person he hates most in the world (and Starling has a long list of people he hates), Detective Joe Sable of the Melbourne Homicide division. Driven by his...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Thaw
Some secrets won't stay buried. Scott's lost expedition was still here, she thought - frozen, preserved, waiting to be rescued from the thaw. The truth lay beneath the surface, and she was going to bring it up. In 1912, five British explorers struggle across the freezing Antarctic landscape, through howling winds and plummeting temperatures, seeking the safety of their camp....Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
That Bligh Girl
Superb narration and engrossing drama. – Tom Keneally Mary Bligh is no shrinking violet. After a horrific six-month sea voyage from Britain, she proves as strong-willed as her bloody-minded father, the newly appointed Governor William Bligh. The pair immediately scandalise Sydney with their personalities, his politics, and her pantaloons. When three hundred armed soldiers of the Rum Rebellion march on...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Tag: A Man, A Woman, and the War to End All Wars
Barry Heard, author of the bestselling Vietnam War memoir Well Done, Those Men, has here produced a deeply moving, fiercely anti-war novel that blazes with authenticity. Based on the experiences of a World War I veteran whom the author knew, it brings new insights to the Gallipoli legend and Australia's battles on the Western Front. As a lad in the...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Stone Country
Stone Country is Nicole Alexander's ninth bestseller, offering a sweeping rural historical narrative set in South Australia and the Northern Territory. In South Australia, 1919, Ross Grant has always been seen as the black sheep in his affluent Scottish family. An explorer by nature, he fantasises about life at Waybell, a remote cattle station located in Australia's last frontier, the...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Stone Sky Gold Mountain
A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fields. It is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields. Siblings Ying and Lai Yue have fled their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. But Lai Yue has a secret he is keeping from his sister, and Ying has...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Soldiers Don't Go Mad
A personal history of the friendship between the great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells the story of psychiatry, the traumatic effects of war, and the healing properties of poetry. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock....Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Soldiers
Someone was pulling at the flagpole, making the flag shiver and dance, warning the rest of the platoon to keep their heads down. Breen could see blood on the trousers of Tiger’s battledress. After Corporal Daniel Cousins dies during routine training in England, a young officer, Lieutenant Patrick Breen, becomes obsessed. Was it an accident, or was Cousins murdered by...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Sisters of the Sky
‘[A] captivating story, wonderfully fleshed out characters and relationships, and beautiful writing make this a must-read!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ October 1941: As war rages in the Soviet Union, Nina is devastated as she watches her younger brother being sent off to the front. She has witnessed so many soldiers go to war and never return, and with her father already...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Sarah Evans
London, 1798. Born into poverty, illiterate, eighteen-year-old Sarah Evans has been raised to believe she has no rights at all. She and her childhood friend, Lucy Burnes, struggle daily to find food and shelter, drawing strength and comfort from their friendship. When she is falsely accused and found guilty of theft, Sarah is sentenced to transportation, but instead, she is...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Salonika Burning
Four historical figures cross paths amidst the chaos of war in this immersive and beautifully written tale by an award-winning Australian novelist Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Runescape: The Fall of Hallowvale
The vampyres are coming. As the God Wars grind towards their brutal conclusion, the armies of darkness descend upon the city of Hallowvale: vampyres, werewolves, and legions of cruel mortal warriors, led by Lord Drakan. The streets are filled with panic, but Queen Efaritay remains confident. Surely Saradomin, Lord of the Light, will save them? Their military will stand strong,...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rosalind
Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remains invisible. Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be invisible. In the 1940s, science is a gentleman's profession, and it appears there...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Resistance and Revenge
Rural England, 1941 and Louisa Carmody is trapped in a dirty war of resistance as her country struggles under the heel of a brutal invader. In the dilapidated local village, trust is in short supply and the need to survive trumps all loyalties. From the crumbling mansion that is her home, a ragtag resistance group pits its meagre forces against...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Push Your Creativity
The magical powers of a storybook cannot be denied, but what if within those pages awaited not traditionally-written fairy tales from all times and places, but those same tales re-told by some of the world's most talented and respected artists! Push Your Creativity is a lavish hardback tome, containing 288 pages populated by characters who started life known to children...Hardback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Orange Wine
While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister Isabel. And thus, Ines Camargo, the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet, begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
One Good Thing
Italy, 1941. Lili Passigli is studying at the University of Ferrara when Mussolini's Racial Laws deem her of 'inferior' Jewish descent. As Hitler's strength grows, Lili's world begins to shrink around her, with the papers awash in Fascist propaganda and the city walls desecrated with antisemitic slurs. When Germany invades northern Italy, however, Lili and her best friend Esti find...Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
On A Bright Hillside In Paradise
From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. 'A jewel of a novel - luminous, vivid, and deftly shaped.' — FIONA McFARLANE Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Objects of Desire
Hugo Hunter is the most important gay writer of the 20th century, but he has a secret—he didn't write either of his novels. So, when he accepts a million dollars to produce another masterpiece, how far will Hugo go to come up with a third? 'An absolute gem. Dark, funny and iconoclastic.' —THE TIMES 'Razor-sharp and deeply unsettling while being...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Nimblefoot
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult competition, he wooed crowds across continents as the World Champion in...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Nightingale
Inspired by the life of Florence Nightingale, this literary gem is part historical fiction, part ghost story, and utterly original. Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a storied career as a nurse, writer, and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening, she is astonished to...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Nature's Fool
Nature's Fool by Timothy Doyle combines magical realism and historical fiction in an expansive exploration of identity, place, and belonging, moving from Ireland to early colonial Australia. Seamus, endowed with enormous physical strength, possesses a sacred and intimate relationship with the sea, has the ability to shape-shift, and is gifted with second sight. However, he is no hero. Illiterate and...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Mrs Hopkins
Engaging, original and full of curiosity and wit . . . I didn't want it to end. Asher Keddie Bursting with life . . . I was gripped from the first chapter. Debra Oswald A subversive, dark delight. Kat Stewart Barrett is a masterly world-builder. New York Times On a rainy night in 1871, an idealistic schoolmistress arrives on Cockatoo...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Maya's Dance
A powerful novel of survival, resilience and enduring love, based on an incredible true Holocaust story. Our dance. Do you remember how I spun and twirled? How I became more than a Jewish girl with battered shoes and dirty clothes ... We did not know then what it would mean, how that dance would change our lives. Poland, 1942: seventeen-year-old...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Marlo
The stunning new novel from the author of Ironbark. It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to 'the City' to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way. Then Christopher meets Morgan, and the two fall in...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Manny and the Baby
London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become. Manny is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister Rita, the Baby, just wants to dance. In the...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Madame Matisse
An ultimatum- her or me. A gunshot. A betrayal. From the author of The Flames, a passionate story set in Paris and the French Riviera, about three women whose lives are set on a collision course when they meet the enigmatic artist Henri Matisse. On France's golden Riviera, the wife of an artist gives him an ultimatum- her or me....Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Lightborne
Kit Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of enemies and old flames in his wake. His plays are a roaring success; he seems destined for greatness. But the queen's eyes are everywhere, and the air is laced with paranoia. When Marlowe is arrested on charges of treason, heresy,...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Life Number Nine
'A beautifully written love story that travels beyond epic' – ANSTEY HARRIS, author of The House of Lost Secrets 'A cosmically thwarted romance' – Daily Mail From the critically acclaimed author of The Rules of Seeing and When the Music Stops For Mika and Jem, love is love; wherever, whenever, and whoever they are… When they meet by chance, perfect...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Let Us Descend
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ‘A spectacular achievement’ ANTHONY DOERR ‘Extravagantly beautiful’ DAILY MAIL ‘One of the greatest writers of all time’ JACQUELINE WOODSON ‘Extraordinary’ GUARDIAN ‘The best book I’ve read in years’ LOUISE KENNEDY ----------------------- The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand. On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Le Fay
Lady Morgan surveys her life at Camelot: an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep their son from his queen’s clutches, a true love she can’t be with, a jealous rival in magician Merlin who has the ear of Morgan’s half-brother King Arthur, and strange but wonderful powers of her own she is still exploring. As tensions rise...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Katharine, the Wright Sister
She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore
A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats. Originally published as two separate volumes in the 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories, edited and compiled by W. B. Yeats, is the perfect gift for any lover of Irish literature and folklore. The lyrical prose and rich cultural heritage...Hardback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
In Search of Lost Time
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 'Sumptuous. Elegant, beautifully paced... completely absorbing' The Guardian 'Extraordinary... a triumph' New Statesman 'Audacious' Financial Times Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences. Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be "likened to a piano reduction of...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Imperial Harvest
Imperial Harvest is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. It addresses pertinent themes of dispossession by tracing imperialist tactics all the way back to the rise of the Khan empire in the 13th century. Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality. Left with one eye and one leg, he is forced out of...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
I Am Nannertgarrook
Winner of the 2025 ARA Historical Novel PrizeShortlisted for the 2025 NiB Literary Award Based on the true story of Tasma Walton’s ancestor, a powerful, heart-wrenching novel about maternal love that endures against pitiless odds. Kidnapped by sealers and enslaved far from her homeland, Nannertgarrook has a spirit that refuses to bow … From her idyllic life in sea country...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Houdini Unbound
It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne and Sydney. Houdini has a new obsession—aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together and prepared in a Diggers Rest paddock by his...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Grace
Early one October morning, Grace’s mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, ‘You are the strong one now.’ With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits Grace in men’s clothing and casts her out. When her younger brother Colly follows after her,...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Good As Gold
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup. Some stories are too good to be true... It's 1861 and there are three campfires burning outside the gold-mining town of Mull Creek. At the first is Jesus Whitetree, an escaped orphan with no...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Free
It is a harsh land - yes, for you especially - but people can also rise here ... Born into poverty in eighteenth-century England, her future was predetermined. But throughout her life, Molly Thistle refused to follow the path laid out before her. Her headstrong nature, disdain for convention, and desire for freedom were always destined to determine her fate....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Fanatic Heart
You don't need me to tell you Keneally is a brilliant storyteller, but with Fanatic Heart he proves it once again. ARTS HUB 'The novel's resonance for our time is deafening.' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen's Land....Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Fair Rosaline
Was the greatest love story of all time a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming, and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first, Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions, but with her father determined that she join the nunnery, Romeo offers...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Eye of a Rook
Two women separated by time and place but connected by a mystifying illness. This beautifully written novel will appeal to fans of literary historical fiction. In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife Emily suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Estella
Estella is a haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations,' says Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks. At just three years of age, Estella is taken from her...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
English Fairy Tales and Legends
Many people in England have little knowledge of genuine English fairy tales. The stories that many of us grew up with are from overseas: for example, Snow White is German, Cinderella is French, and Aladdin is Arabian. But folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture, and the author has revived our best tales for a...Hardback$2200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Early Light
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius. The title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man during the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only...Hardback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Diva
In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic, and striking beauty, she's the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. Yet her fame has been hard-won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her,...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Dirrayawadha
Shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Dirrayawadha is full of heart and hope, truth-telling and history – and shimmers with language too' Guardian 'A story from the past given vivid life for new understanding' Kate Grenville _______________________________________________ Bathurst, 1820s Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Dictionary of Lost Words: The Play
In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Death at Booroomba
In 1915, two days before being sent to fight in WWI, Jack O'Rourke dived into Sydney Harbour to save a drowning stranger, Samuel Lomond. Four years later, battle-scarred and weary, Jack returns home only to discover that Samuel has been brutally murdered – and that he's been left his rural property, Booroomba. When Jack arrives in Warrawolong, a small town...Paperback$3685Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Dancing with Deception
Dancing with Deception by Catherine McCullagh explores love, lies and deceit in occupied Paris, where a young nurse finds herself caught between the resistance and the Gestapo. Marisa Carnarvon is an enigma to her family. In 1938, she turns her back on her privileged Sydney lifestyle to become a nurse in a London hospital. With conflict looming, she moves to...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
City of Silk
Justice in sixteenth-century Bologna is like the fine silk which the city produces: something only the rich and powerful can afford. Elena Morandi is a supremely talented seamstress, at home among the bolts of fabric and cutting shears of her trade. However, she is determined that her ambition to be a tailor, a profession barred to her as a woman,...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Chloe
Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reimagines the volatile history of the beautiful and enigmatic young woman immortalised in one of Australia's most iconic paintings. Created in Paris in 1875, Chloé, Jules Lefebvre's depiction of a naked water nymph, was brought to...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Celtic Fairy Tales and Legends
From mermaids to dragons, 16 ancient Celtic fairy tales retold with their histories The Celtic cultures of the British Isles - Ireland, Scotland and Wales - have produced some of the richest traditional tales in Europe. Three words best sum up their themes and flavour: adventure, enchantment and romance. In this book, Celtic Fairy Tales and Legends by Rosalind Kerven,...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Call Me Ishmaelle
Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor. Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange — Philip Hoare One of the most valuable writers in the world — Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph,...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Burning Seasons
An unforgettable story of survival, sisterhood, and the fight for a brighter future, based on the author's own experiences during Brazil's military dictatorship. In 1970s Brazil, two teenage sisters are thrust into a chaotic world. Fear and hunger stalk them in a sugarcane town choked by a constant rain of ash, a testament to the toxic environment in which they...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales (Keepsake Edition)
Classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm with a creatively embroidered cover. This creatively designed edition of Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales includes cherished favourites such as “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Little Red Cap,” and many more in their original versions. These are the stories of characters we’ve known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Box Hill
Box Hill - A 2020 Spectator Book of the Year 'I took one look at him, and I saw what he really wanted.' On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out in Surrey. Timid, awkward, and very much out of his element, he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Bitter Greens
A lovely stew of sex, fairytales and, well, sex really. The Age. An exquisite rendering of the story behind the Rapunzel fairy tale. Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Berlin Duet
A POWERFUL, PANORAMIC NOVEL OF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH — SUNDAY TIMES 'What a love story' — Elizabeth Buchan 'Gripping and heartfelt' — Elisabeth Gifford 'Entirely convincing and authentic' — Leonora Nattrass UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET. From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the ruins of Soviet Berlin, discover a moving, ambitious story...Paperback$3799Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Battle Born
Battle Born follows Damien Hunter, a veteran forged in the relentless crucible of combat operations. Formerly an Air Force special forces operator turned contractor, Damien is now employed by the enigmatic Taipan Organisation. Together with Warwick ‘Wuz’ Davis and Paul ‘Stayer’ MacLean, he leads the elite three-man team, Taipan One Six. This team is known for taking on missions that...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Woman of Opinion
From the bestselling author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley comes an illuminating historical novel about the extraordinary, adventurous life of Mary Wortley Montagu—pioneering writer, poet, and feminist. For fans of Matrix, Miss Austen, and Hamnet. 'Witty, insightful and moving' - Sunday Times 'This book is a triumph - vivid, exquisite, enthralling and revealing' - Kate Griffin, author of...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Woman Of Courage: A gripping, uplifting Victorian era novel about passion, love, loss & self-discovery from the bestselling author of The Girl fr
Finding her voice will change her world forever ... The bestselling story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by beloved Australian author Tania Blanchard, inspired by true events 'Stunning ... An inspiring tale of the women who quite literally changed the world' - NATASHA LESTER 'Engrossing ... Captivating and uplifting' - BOOKS+PUBLISHING 'Galvanising historical fiction' - SYDNEY...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Poisoner's Tale
A Poisoner's Tale is a powerful historical fiction debut inspired by the true story of Giulia Tofana, the first documented female serial killer in history. Discover the dark and gothic historical novel inspired by the true story of Giulia Tofana, the first documented female serial killer in history. Perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Lost Apothecary. 'A mesmerizing...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Piece of Red Cloth
It's early in the wet season. A flock of crested terns sweeps into the bay and dives towards Batjani. The birds are saying the foreigners are coming, as they do every year, but why are they so full of menace? Batjani's beloved granddaughter Garritji is on the cusp of womanhood, about to go through the rituals preparing her for marriage....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
All the Golden Light: A stirring, dramatic new debut historical fiction novel for readers of Kirsty Manning, Natasha Lester and Rosalie Ham
A stirring, dramatic story about finding connection, meaning and beauty in a time of darkness ... and the craving and savagery of the heart 'Suspenseful and thrilling' TANIA BLANCHARD 'Powerful and moving' VICTORIA PURMAN 'Heartstopping' ALLI PARKER 1918, Belowla. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
All the Bees in the Hollows
Bees choose their masters. Bees don't sting good people. Maryt is a devoted beekeeper. She lives by the old rules: work with fellow beekeepers, be a good Christian, and a good harvest will follow. These rules help her cope with her grief when she inherits her husband's tree hollows. But as harsh conditions and tax increases threaten the harvest, Maryt...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Against the Odds San Francisco Earthquake 1906
Decodable tales of survival against the odds for striving readers aged 10-14. When fifteen-year-old Chen finds himself in the middle of the deadliest earthquake in US history, he doesn't know if he'll ever see his family or his beloved Chinatown again... This book is part of the Against The Odds series, a captivating series of fictional - but inspired by...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Against the Odds: Crashed
Decodable tales of survival against the odds for striving readers aged 10-14. Three young people's bravery is seriously put to the test in these gripping stories about real-life crash landings. The Hindenburg, 1937 United Airlines Flight 173, 1978 US Airways Flight 1549, 2009 This book is part of the Against The Odds series, a captivating series of fictional - but...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Against the Odds Animal Attacks
Decodable tales of survival against the odds for striving readers aged 10-14. These short stories bring to life some of the world's deadliest animal attacks, and how three young people beat the odds to survive them. HMS Birkenhead Shark Attacks, 1852 The Lions of Tsavo, 1898 Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, 1915 This book is part of the Against The Odds...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Afterlives
BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ‘Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure’ — Maaza Mengiste, Guardian ‘A brilliant and important book for our...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Better Place
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. People in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he came back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony, killed on Crete in 1941. The hut he built when...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
33 Place Brugmann
The international bestseller An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms. ‘I adored it … It finds courage and love amidst the ruins, and I read with my heart in my mouth’ – Rachel Joyce ‘Intimate and ambitious, lyrical and moving’ – Observer 'A beautiful and deeply engaging novel'...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Communist of Montmartre
In 1935 Paris, the French Communist Party faces a surreal dilemma: Moscow demands a black African delegate for its upcoming Festival of Peace, but none can be found-until a flamboyant vaudeville performer named Luciano di Lammermoor unexpectedly fits the part. With wit and quiet precision, Michael Kleeberg turns a historical farce into a pointed meditation on identity, ideologyPaperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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