historical fiction
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A Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
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A Harlot’s Progress
- £8.00
- A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators…
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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
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A Maggot
- £20.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
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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 River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
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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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A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
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A Victim of the Aurora
- £25.00
- In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of…
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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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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
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Alexandria (Falco 19: SIGNED)
- £35.00
- I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.' AD 77. Egypt was the destination of choice for Roman tourists, being home to not one but two Wonders of the Ancient World, a Centre of Culture, and people with exotic habits.…
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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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An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
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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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Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
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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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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ 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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Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
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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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Blood Red, Sister Rose
- £40.00
- The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
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Cahokia Jazz (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a…
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Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
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A Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
- Add to basket
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A Harlot’s Progress
- £8.00
- A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators…
- Add to basket
-
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
- Add to basket
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A Maggot
- £20.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
- 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
-
A River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
- Add to basket
-
A Victim of the Aurora
- £25.00
- In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of…
- Add to basket
-
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
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
- Add to basket
-
Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
- Add to basket
-
Alexandria (Falco 19: SIGNED)
- £35.00
- I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.' AD 77. Egypt was the destination of choice for Roman tourists, being home to not one but two Wonders of the Ancient World, a Centre of Culture, and people with exotic habits.…
- 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
-
An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
- 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
-
Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
- 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
-
Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ 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
-
Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
- 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
-
Blood Red, Sister Rose
- £40.00
- The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a…
- Add to basket
-
Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
- Add to basket
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
- Add to basket
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
- Add to basket
-
Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
- Add to basket
-
Cahokia Jazz (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a…
- Add to basket
-
Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
- Add to basket