historical fiction
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The Hooded Falcon
- £16.00
- Prudence Andrew's 1960 historical novel set in aroud 1500 on the English/Welsh border, with the Lollards looming large and the rebellion of Owen Glendower underway.
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The House of Silk (The new Sherlock Holmes novel)
- £20.00
- It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who…
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The House of Wolf (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Rome: Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on trumped-up charges of heresy, until salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better world, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has a vital job for Asser,…
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The Leopard
- £200.00
- The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince…
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
- £25.00
- An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For…
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
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The Mosaic of Shadows (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Murder and intrigue in the palaces and trading halls of Byzantium. Reaching its peak in 1025, under Basil II, Byzantium has perpetuated the legacy of the Roman empire since the fall of the West. However, in its now weakened position, it faces serious threats from the Turks. In response to…
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THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
- £15.00
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
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The New Confessions (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to…
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The Night Watch (signed)
- £30.00
- Nominated for the Booker Prize, this book moves back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners -…
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The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
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The Noise of Time
- £12.00
- 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
- £15.00
- 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
- £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…
- Add to basket
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The Hooded Falcon
- £16.00
- Prudence Andrew's 1960 historical novel set in aroud 1500 on the English/Welsh border, with the Lollards looming large and the rebellion of Owen Glendower underway.
- Add to basket
-
The House of Silk (The new Sherlock Holmes novel)
- £20.00
- It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who…
- Add to basket
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The House of Wolf (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Rome: Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on trumped-up charges of heresy, until salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better world, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has a vital job for Asser,…
- Add to basket
-
The Leopard
- £200.00
- The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince…
- Add to basket
-
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
- £25.00
- An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For…
- Add to basket
-
The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
- Add to basket
-
The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
- Add to basket
-
The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
- Add to basket
-
The Mosaic of Shadows (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Murder and intrigue in the palaces and trading halls of Byzantium. Reaching its peak in 1025, under Basil II, Byzantium has perpetuated the legacy of the Roman empire since the fall of the West. However, in its now weakened position, it faces serious threats from the Turks. In response to…
- Add to basket
-
THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
- £15.00
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
- Add to basket
-
The New Confessions (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to…
- Add to basket
-
The Night Watch (signed)
- £30.00
- Nominated for the Booker Prize, this book moves back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners -…
- Add to basket
-
The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
- Add to basket
-
The Noise of Time
- £12.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
The Noise of Time
- £15.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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