historical fiction
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A Memento for Istanbul
- £30.00
- A thrilling tale which moves back and forth through time, from the early days of Byzantium to the thriving metropolis of Istanbul... A corpse is discovered at the base of the statue of Atatiirk in old Istanbul, an antique coin left in its hand. But it's not to be the…
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A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
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A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
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Accordion Crimes
- £15.00
- The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses…
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Admiral Hornblower (4 novels combined)
- £40.00
- Join Horatio Hornblower and as he sets sail on a world of adventure, fighting against the ruthless Napoleonic France, taking command in the West Indies, and leading his squadron through the vicious seas. Hornblower shows his relentless courage time and time again in the face of battle, tackling times of…
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Alias Grace
- £25.00
- Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an…
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All that I am
- £15.00
- 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 German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
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All The Light We Cannot See
- £18.00
- From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
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Birds without Wings – a novel
- £25.00
- Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges…
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Black Betty (an Easy Rawlins Mystery)
- £20.00
- Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed "Black Betty," who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.
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Bulldog Drummond
- £15.00
- Sapper's classic romp (H. C. McNeile). A Brock Book for Older Boys. Frontispiece and other b/w illustrations by CANEY. Bulldog Drummond. Hero, patriot, sportsman and quintessential English gentleman. An army officer in the First World War, he knows how to fight hard and play fair and there is not much…
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Captain Hornblower R.N. (a trilogy)
- £40.00
- The thrilling and exciting adventures of Horatio Hornblower's life at sea in the Royal Navy, in these three classic stories: 1. Hornblower and the Atropos Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action. But soon his orders come, and he sets sail…
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A Memento for Istanbul
- £30.00
- A thrilling tale which moves back and forth through time, from the early days of Byzantium to the thriving metropolis of Istanbul... A corpse is discovered at the base of the statue of Atatiirk in old Istanbul, an antique coin left in its hand. But it's not to be the…
- Add to basket
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A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
- Add to basket
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A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
- Add to basket
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Accordion Crimes
- £15.00
- The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses…
- Add to basket
-
Admiral Hornblower (4 novels combined)
- £40.00
- Join Horatio Hornblower and as he sets sail on a world of adventure, fighting against the ruthless Napoleonic France, taking command in the West Indies, and leading his squadron through the vicious seas. Hornblower shows his relentless courage time and time again in the face of battle, tackling times of…
- Add to basket
-
Alias Grace
- £25.00
- Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an…
- Add to basket
-
All that I am
- £15.00
- 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 German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
- Add to basket
-
All The Light We Cannot See
- £18.00
- From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris…
- Add to basket
-
Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
- Add to basket
-
Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
- Add to basket
-
Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
- Add to basket
-
Birds without Wings – a novel
- £25.00
- Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges…
- Add to basket
-
Black Betty (an Easy Rawlins Mystery)
- £20.00
- Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed "Black Betty," who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.
- Add to basket
-
Bulldog Drummond
- £15.00
- Sapper's classic romp (H. C. McNeile). A Brock Book for Older Boys. Frontispiece and other b/w illustrations by CANEY. Bulldog Drummond. Hero, patriot, sportsman and quintessential English gentleman. An army officer in the First World War, he knows how to fight hard and play fair and there is not much…
- Add to basket
-
Captain Hornblower R.N. (a trilogy)
- £40.00
- The thrilling and exciting adventures of Horatio Hornblower's life at sea in the Royal Navy, in these three classic stories: 1. Hornblower and the Atropos Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action. But soon his orders come, and he sets sail…
- Add to basket
