historical fiction
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The Commodore
- £8.00
- 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . . Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog,…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Crossing
- £25.00
- Allbeury tells it as it is: he was there and he knows what it feels like. (The Washington Post) Inspired by the Soviet Union's downing of an American spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960, one of Ted Allbeury's most explosive thrillers introduces the brilliant British spycatcher Joe…
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The Cut-Rate Kingdom
- £25.00
- 1942 and the world is at war. Australia and its government--and two people in particular--look to events in Asia with alarm. 'Paperboy' Tyson's privlieged relationship with the Prime Minister, Johnny Mulhall, gives him insight into the man's public and private affairs. Maimed in the first world war, Tyson, now a…
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The Daughters of Mars (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on…
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The Devil’s Lieutenant
- £10.00
- A darkly compelling novel of the single-minded pursuit of justice and of a man whose major crime was seeing all too clearly the shape of the war that was to come and how it would destroy the very monarch that it was his duty to protect. It presents in vivid…
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The Fair Maid of Perth
- £20.00
- Scott's 1828 novel, one of the Waverley novels was inspired by the bizarre, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch. It is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
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The Foreign Correspondent
- £25.00
- By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty of migr life, they joined the Italian resistance, founding an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to their lost homeland.…
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The Fraud (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims…
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The Gate of Air: a ghost story
- £15.00
- When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons…
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The Ghost Road (Regeneration 3) (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in…
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The Ghost Ship: Joubert Family Chronicles 3/3 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is…
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The Harmony Silk Factory
- £50.00
- A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory…
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The Harmony Silk Factory (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is…
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The Historian
- £45.00
- A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker 'Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner' - San Francisco Chronicle Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth…
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The Commodore
- £8.00
- 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . . Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog,…
- Add to basket
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
- Add to basket
-
The Crossing
- £25.00
- Allbeury tells it as it is: he was there and he knows what it feels like. (The Washington Post) Inspired by the Soviet Union's downing of an American spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960, one of Ted Allbeury's most explosive thrillers introduces the brilliant British spycatcher Joe…
- Add to basket
-
The Cut-Rate Kingdom
- £25.00
- 1942 and the world is at war. Australia and its government--and two people in particular--look to events in Asia with alarm. 'Paperboy' Tyson's privlieged relationship with the Prime Minister, Johnny Mulhall, gives him insight into the man's public and private affairs. Maimed in the first world war, Tyson, now a…
- Add to basket
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The Daughters of Mars (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on…
- Add to basket
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The Devil’s Lieutenant
- £10.00
- A darkly compelling novel of the single-minded pursuit of justice and of a man whose major crime was seeing all too clearly the shape of the war that was to come and how it would destroy the very monarch that it was his duty to protect. It presents in vivid…
- Add to basket
-
The Fair Maid of Perth
- £20.00
- Scott's 1828 novel, one of the Waverley novels was inspired by the bizarre, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch. It is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
- Add to basket
-
The Foreign Correspondent
- £25.00
- By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty of migr life, they joined the Italian resistance, founding an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to their lost homeland.…
- Add to basket
-
The Fraud (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims…
- Add to basket
-
The Gate of Air: a ghost story
- £15.00
- When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons…
- Add to basket
-
The Ghost Road (Regeneration 3) (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in…
- Add to basket
-
The Ghost Ship: Joubert Family Chronicles 3/3 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is…
- Add to basket
-
The Harmony Silk Factory
- £50.00
- A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory…
- Add to basket
-
The Harmony Silk Factory (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is…
- Add to basket
-
The Historian
- £45.00
- A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker 'Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner' - San Francisco Chronicle Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth…
- Add to basket