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Witty, warm, full of accurate historical detail and absolutely teeming with dashing detectives and oppurtunities for our endless practical and terribly clever heroine to shine, this is cetain to delight all fans of the country house murder mystery.
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A tumultuous story of a clever and calculating woman who helped found the Tudor dynasty, this brilliantly told tale comes from the reigning queen of historical fiction.
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1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and hormones and determined to escape.
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WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney.
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From the moving Empire of the Sun, an autobiographical novel set in World War II China to the visionary cult novel Crash to Miracles of Life, his acclaimed autobiography, Ballard produced some of the most influential books of our time.
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Anita Shreve is one of the world's best-loved and bestselling novelists. Thoughtful, evocative, powerful and compelling, each novel will sweep you up in its emotional journey.
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It's 1917 and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior.
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These stories of derring-do on the battlefields of the Napoleonic War have deservedly become classics of the boy's own genre.
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From the acclaimed master of action and suspense come three very different but equally exciting and gripping adventures.
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The Thomas Chaloner Mysteries will happily occupy all fans of both the murder mystery and historical fiction genres.
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Perfect for fans of Josephine Cox and Meg Hutchinson, the East End Collection guarantees to keep you warmly entertained throughout the summer.
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Best known for her Fairacre series, Miss Read writes of village life through the eyes of a schoolmistress and her gentle observations of a changing world...
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These three compelling books from Stephen E. Ambrose offer military history at its most readable.
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A.S. Byatt returns with a moving story of children damaged by their parent's creativity.
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Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd makes himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, inadvertently casting his lot with art and revolution. Winner of the Orange Prize 2010
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An electrifying novel by David Mitchell. Set at a turning point in history on a tiny island attached to mainland Japan, this tale of power, passion and integrity transports us to a world that is at once exotic and familiar. Dramatic, funny, heartbreaking, enlightening and thought-provoking - reading it is an unforgettable experience.
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Inspired by a real house, an amazing modernist symbol, this story is guaranteed to dazzle and intrigue the reader.
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It's Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Miss Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. Together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
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Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, dies, falling out of a window at his London home.
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It's Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, and Clodius is an ambitious playboy.
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