historical fiction
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The Noise of Time
- £8.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Office of Innocence
- £20.00
- Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a…
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
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The People’s Train
- £35.00
- Artem Samsurov, a protg of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned,…
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The Pianoplayers
- £25.00
- This novel is one of Anthony BurgessÕs most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The…
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The Playmaker
- £60.00
- In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of…
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The Porcupine
- £9.00
- Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been…
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The Power of the Dead (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 11)
- £30.00
- Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas.…
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The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
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The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
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The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
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The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
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The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
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The Noise of Time
- £8.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
- Add to basket
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The Office of Innocence
- £20.00
- Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a…
- Add to basket
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
- Add to basket
-
The People’s Train
- £35.00
- Artem Samsurov, a protg of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned,…
- Add to basket
-
The Pianoplayers
- £25.00
- This novel is one of Anthony BurgessÕs most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The…
- Add to basket
-
The Playmaker
- £60.00
- In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of…
- Add to basket
-
The Porcupine
- £9.00
- Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been…
- Add to basket
-
The Power of the Dead (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 11)
- £30.00
- Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas.…
- Add to basket
-
The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
- Add to basket
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The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
- Add to basket
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The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
- Add to basket
-
The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
- Add to basket
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The Second Sleep (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. ItÕs a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination Ð a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor Ð before night falls and curfew is imposed. HeÕs lost…
- Add to basket