historical fiction
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Season in Purgatory
- £35.00
- During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets--and loves--the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture.…
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Shadow Ticket
- £25.00
- Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heÕs found job security until he gets…
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Shame and the Captives
- £25.00
- On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a prisoner in Europe,…
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
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Snow Country (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war…
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Southern Cross: a powerful saga of Australia’s first decades
- £20.00
- Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect - and tragic - love affair. Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds…
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Splendid Dawn
- £25.00
- A tale of pioneer Canada based on fact. It tells the story of Thayendanegea, an Indian chief of the Mohawk tribe, who took the English name of Joseph Brant. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece.
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SS-GB, Nazi-Occupied Britain in 1941
- £12.00
- It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what…
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- £350.00
- The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton that was first published in 1911. It is primarily about King Alfred's victory over the Danes in 878, but it also elaborates on the conflict between native Celtic religions and Christianity. Chesterton uses the mysterious image of…
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The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
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The Captain from Connecticut
- £15.00
- No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody. His mission: break the British Blockade. The…
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
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The Chemistry of Tears (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of loveall are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her…
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The Children of the New Forest
- £15.00
- Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. “The Children of the New Forest” is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick…
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The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
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Season in Purgatory
- £35.00
- During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets--and loves--the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture.…
- Add to basket
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Shadow Ticket
- £25.00
- Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heÕs found job security until he gets…
- Add to basket
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Shame and the Captives
- £25.00
- On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a prisoner in Europe,…
- Add to basket
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
- Add to basket
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Snow Country (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war…
- Add to basket
-
Southern Cross: a powerful saga of Australia’s first decades
- £20.00
- Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect - and tragic - love affair. Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds…
- Add to basket
-
Splendid Dawn
- £25.00
- A tale of pioneer Canada based on fact. It tells the story of Thayendanegea, an Indian chief of the Mohawk tribe, who took the English name of Joseph Brant. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece.
- Add to basket
-
SS-GB, Nazi-Occupied Britain in 1941
- £12.00
- It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what…
- Add to basket
-
The Ballad of the White Horse
- £350.00
- The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton that was first published in 1911. It is primarily about King Alfred's victory over the Danes in 878, but it also elaborates on the conflict between native Celtic religions and Christianity. Chesterton uses the mysterious image of…
- Add to basket
-
The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
- Add to basket
-
The Captain from Connecticut
- £15.00
- No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody. His mission: break the British Blockade. The…
- Add to basket
-
The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
- Add to basket
-
The Chemistry of Tears (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of loveall are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her…
- Add to basket
-
The Children of the New Forest
- £15.00
- Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. “The Children of the New Forest” is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick…
- Add to basket
-
The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
- Add to basket