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Valfierno, the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa is a fascinating novel of intrigue based on a real event at the dawn of the twentieth century: the disappearance of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre Museum, on August 22, 1911. The...

One of the few depictions of African Americans in World War I, Wings on My Feet (1929) follows the tale of Black Ulysses, John Wesley "Left Wing" Gordon, begun in Howard W. Odum's Rainbow Round My Shoulder (IUP, 2006). On one level, the novel...

Anne O'Brien's new novel, Queen of the North, is available to pre-order now England's Forgotten Queens 'Anne O'Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists.' - Sunday Express ...

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Rutherfurd's epic style, famously exercised in his dramatic accounts of Sarum, Russia and London, makes this saga, set against the backdrop of the great events of Irish history, so readable and moving. With the help of some of the country's leading...

A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are others there who know George is innocent, too - and the men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977222176Author Raquel PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 127g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977216359Author Lori R HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977210227Author Rita BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994143143Author Lizzi TremayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Blue Mist Publishing LtdPublisher Blue Mist Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 631g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587151118Author Sir H Rider HaggardFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977213419Author Gary WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977207487Author Charles L DorothyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. In Ben...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591020509Author Anna E. DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 150g

In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John...

1905, India. Clarissa Belhaven and her younger sister Olive live a charmed life on their father's tea plantation. But when the business begins to fail, their future looks uncertain. Young rival businessman Wesley Robson offers a lifeline: he will help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750531115Author David DonachieFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Magna Large Print BooksPublisher Magna Large Print Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750525442Author June FrancisFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Magna Large Print BooksPublisher Magna Large Print BooksWeight(grams) 171g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750524858Author Jessica BlairFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint Magna Large Print BooksPublisher Magna Large Print BooksWeight(grams) 161g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905559902Author Brian JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Greencroft BooksPublisher Greencroft BooksWeight(grams) 425g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495431Author Wayne JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 482g

This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of western womanhood. "Comes closer to the truth and the validity of the so-called winning of the West than...

1919. When young Tilly Moran falls out with her elder sister, Alice, she decides it is time to fly the nest and moves from the family home in Chester across the Mersey to Liverpool. Always more determined and spirited than her staid sibling, Tilly is...

1908, Manchester. Mary Maitland is an attractive and intelligent young woman determined to strike out on her own and earn a living. Finding work at a women's employment agency, her creative talent is soon noticed and Mary begins writing articles for...

It is 1927. In rural Bohemia a son is born to Josef, leader of a company of Coppersmith Gypsies, and his wife Anna. For the benefit of his people he is named Emil, but his real name, known only to his mother, is Yenko. Yenko is the prince of his tribe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743265232Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Born in the small French town of Figeac in 1790, Jean-Francois Champollion was to become famous as the man who first discovered the meaning of hieroglyphs. This remarkable novel tells the story of his extraordinary trip to Egypt in 1828 on a quest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472106Author Judith KinghornFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Spur Awards (Novel of the West) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780449910832Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399179280Author Danielle SteelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 106g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708763Author Gore VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316678100Author Anita ShreveFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312354770Author Harry TurtledoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

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Historical fiction is as popular today as it was at its birth in the nineteenth century. The imaginative recreation of a period beyond living memory has a power to evoke the past better than any history text book. The stories in this collection travel in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034081Author Clare ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 138mm...