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This saga is set in the Palestine of 1917, a starving segment of the Ottoman Empire, besieged by the Egypt-based British under Allenby. It culminates as the British prepare to meet the Austrian artillery with cold steel in the charge at Huj.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546285144Author Dick ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410108005Author William Stearns DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 404g

The Hendersons opens in 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I and concludes in 1919. It follows the lives of the eponymous Henderson family: William, a Sheffield barber, his wife, Lydia, and his four children, Matthew, Joe, Bob and Amy. William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241972229Author Kathryn StockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 129g

A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA 'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism' The Times Having fled...

The tale of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788. Superficially, the plot is simple: Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife.Book InformationISBN...

Women play a pivotal role in the Bible, yet their fates are generally summarized in just a few lines. Now Marek Halter tells the stories of three of its most important heroines: Sarah, the Sumerian aristocrat who struggled to bear a child; Zipporah, the...

Young cleric, Wulfgar, does not believe that his older brother is capable of treason. And yet Wystan stand accused of plotting to overthrow King Edward and place his cousin, Seriol on the throne. It is clear that Seiriol and the Archbishop plan to lead...

Both a poignant love story and a period portrait of America, this is the story of a solitary woman in great turmoil. As the Eisenhower years end and 1960 ushers in John F. Kennedy. Mary van der Linden confronts the terror of the Cold War - a dark...

The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. From the day it...

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. The gilded family had been the envy and the pride of England for centuries. Never had the Lazenders seemed more powerful or more...

1286 A.D. Scotland is in the grip of the worst winter in living memory. Some say the Day of Judgement has come. The king of Scotland rides out from Edinburgh into the stormy dark. On the road he is murdered by one of his own men, leaving the succession...

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising...

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The Hendersons opens in 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I and concludes in 1919. It follows the lives of the eponymous Henderson family: William, a Sheffield barber, his wife, Lydia, and his four children, Matthew, Joe, Bob and Amy. William...

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This is the heart-stopping conclusion to the epic "Conquest" trilogy. In twenty years the de Hauteville brothers have gone from penniless obscurity to become the most potent warrior family in Christendom: depended on by the Pope, feared by Byzantium and...

A novel set in the 1750s, with America's vast riches up for grabs. British and French troops wage continuous war against each other - American colonial militias backing British General Edward Braddock, the Caughnawanga and Algonquin Indian tribes siding...

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Despite the best efforts of the Pharaoh Senusret and his generals, the beautiful acacia tree of Abydos is dying. But the beautiful priestess Isis has an idea: to save the 'Tree of Life', a new pyramid must be built in honour of Osiris. Senusret agrees to...

The young scribe Iker has finally realised that, in pursuing Pharaoh Senusret with his hatred, he chose the wrong target. The real enemy, the one who is attacking the Tree of Life at Abydos, is in fact the Herald, that baleful individual who is rallying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767923279Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 166gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345425485Author Jeff ShaaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476g

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Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In...

1882. Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley is under pressure. News of an uprising against the British powers in Egypt has reached London, and he must react decisively and forcefully. But there is little time to assemble an army and, for his campaign to...

This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the...

A beautiful historical mystery for fans of Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh's The Sea of Poppies, and Jamaica Inn.London in the 1770s is bursting with opportunity. It's a city fuelled by new ideas and new money, where everything is for sale - including entree...

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Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983014Author Margaret RedfernFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 304g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478741534Author Jim OlesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 231g