historical fiction
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The Prisoner of Heaven (Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3)
- £22.00
- This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN 'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POST Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his…
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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 Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told. Discover Georgian London as you've never seen it before. . . I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you…
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The Shadows of London (Marwood & Lovett 6) (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- London 1671: The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a manÕs brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is…
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The Ship
- £9.00
- One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta – but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships. Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester – creator of Horatio Hornblower – takes us aboard HMS…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
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The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid…
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- £10.00
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
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The Taxidermist’s Daughter
- £15.00
- he enthralling Sunday Times bestselling gothic novel from the author of LABYRINTH and THE BURNING CHAMBERS. The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream . . . 1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the…
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The Vines of Yarrabee
- £12.00
- New York Times bestseller: A sweeping romantic saga about the colonization of Australia, from the author of An Important Family. When Gilbert Massingham chooses Eugenia Lichfield for his bride, he knows the aristocratic beauty is the ideal mistress for his plantation in the Australian wilderness. But the virile, larger-than-life, vineyard-obsessed…
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The Prisoner of Heaven (Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3)
- £22.00
- This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN 'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POST Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his…
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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 Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told. Discover Georgian London as you've never seen it before. . . I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you…
- Add to basket
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The Shadows of London (Marwood & Lovett 6) (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- London 1671: The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a manÕs brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is…
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The Ship
- £9.00
- One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta – but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships. Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester – creator of Horatio Hornblower – takes us aboard HMS…
- Add to basket
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
- Add to basket
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
- Add to basket
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The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
- Add to basket
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The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid…
- Add to basket
-
The Story of Lucy Gault
- £10.00
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
- Add to basket
-
The Taxidermist’s Daughter
- £15.00
- he enthralling Sunday Times bestselling gothic novel from the author of LABYRINTH and THE BURNING CHAMBERS. The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream . . . 1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the…
- Add to basket
-
The Vines of Yarrabee
- £12.00
- New York Times bestseller: A sweeping romantic saga about the colonization of Australia, from the author of An Important Family. When Gilbert Massingham chooses Eugenia Lichfield for his bride, he knows the aristocratic beauty is the ideal mistress for his plantation in the Australian wilderness. But the virile, larger-than-life, vineyard-obsessed…
- Add to basket