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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727888631Author Martine BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 545g

"The Gates of Paradise" is the story of the three years the poet William Blake spent in Felpham, of the impact of his revolutionary ideas on a pair of young lovers, of his quarrel with a trooper and his subsequent arrest and trial for sedetion...

The Sunday Times bestseller, and set to be a major TV drama ________________________________ 'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER 'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' CLAIRE TOMALIN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872730202Author Alexander CordellFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Blorenge BooksPublisher Blorenge Books

This story takes place largely in the garden of a wealthy Jewish family in Ferrara where young Jews meet to play tennis after being forced out of the local club by Fascists. The garden becomes an island of civilization in a brutal world.Book...

The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful novel of World War II. 'Gripping... [a] moving narrative of friendships broken by war and betrayal' Sunday Times...

Daniel Retallick has grown to manhood during the years of flood tide in the chronicles of Africa. The son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, he settles with his wife and children on a homestead in a valley of Matabeleland. But the years are the 1880s, and the...

Midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers of Wefford, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen and...

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about one magnificent gem, and three lives bound together by fate ... 1879, York.Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds...

July 1540: the shock news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449221228Author Susan HowatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295g

A gripping tale of the Tudors, set in the shadow of the Tower of London. Following spectacular celebrations for the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Katherine of Aragon, Tudor England is plunged into mourning when the prince sickens and dies. With...

AD 643. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the sixth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Heading south to lands he once considered his home, Beobrand is plunged into a dark world of piracy and slavery when an old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788486477Author Lee WillmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Paul Fraser Collard's roguish hero Jack Lark - dubbed 'Sharpe meets the Talented Mr Ripley' - returns once more, switching sides to join the ranks of the Confederate Army. This latest adventure will see Jack journey through the Southern states as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956720030Author Sandra GoldbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Daughters of History LtdPublisher Daughters of History LtdWeight(grams) 166g

This is a novel about connections, contacts, and shocks - electrical, emotional, sexual, intellectual - and a sensual young woman's adventures in the 1880s.Book InformationISBN 9780099489719Author Victoria GlendinningFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint...

Almost two hundred years have elapsed since the Crusader armies took Jerusalem. Now it is the turn of the Saracen to seek revenge and send an overwhelming force against the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. In Acre, the defenders await their fate...

London,1821. Recently returned from Egypt, the adventurer Giovanni Belzoni enthrals Londoners with the city's first exhibition devoted to Egyptian art. As he unveils his star exhibit, a mummy so perfectly preserved it seems almost alive, there is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609610299Author Colin FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Crown Publishing CompanyPublisher Crown Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 635g

ITALY, 1492. Five-year-old Mura is a strange and bewitching child. Daughter of a Nordic mother and Spanish father, she has been tutored in both Arabic learning and the ancient mythology of the north. But when her widower father is taken by the...

'Wonderfully imaginative' Bernard Cornwell, author of The Last Kingdom. British Intelligence maverick James Keane goes undercover in Napoleon's Paris for his most daring espionage mission yet. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell. It's...

Brandy Row takes place on the Isle of Portland between 1830 and 1851 - when smuggling was rife and the close knit community armed themselves against foreigners or 'Kimberlins'. A young fisherman, Matthew, has fallen for Violet, the beautiful daughter of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838882341Author Ann BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 129g

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. Three of her four daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected it; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with...

Here is the beginning of a legend. Long before Camelot rose, a hundred years before the myth of King Arthur was half-formed, at the start of the Red Century, the world was slipping into a Dark Age... It is AD 367. In a frozen forest beyond Hadrian's...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.' InStyle Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who...

LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brilliant' Joanna Cannon'Spellbinding' Guardian'Magic' Erin Kelly'Immersive' Sunday...

The brand new heartwarming novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court It's Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . . Named...

The fourth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. It is 885. England is at peace; the Danes rule the north and King Alfred holds the...

The gripping new suspense story by the bestselling author of LADY OF HAY and ON THE EDGE OF DARKNESS, is set in richly mysterious Egypt, where past and present elide. Recently divorced Anna Fox decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great...

"The House at Old Vine" is the second in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Covering the turbulent years of 1496 to 1680, it follows six...

'Lesley Pearse is on top form with her latest novel The House Across The Street' Choice 'A tense and thrilling tale. Emotional and moving, storytelling at its best, filled with characters you will passionately care about' Daily Express 'A deeply...

One Night in Paradise Though Queen Elizabeth I's court at Richmond was a hotbed of illicit liaisons, beautiful Adorna Pickering remained unscathed. Yet the one man she couldn't resist had a reputation blacker than sin. And, though Adorna didn't want to...

A masterpiece of breathtaking scope, from the Ice Age to the present day, Sarum traces the entire turbulent course of English history through the epic saga of five families. The Wilsons and the Shockleys, locked in a cycle of revenge and rivalry for more...

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in...

When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys...

The thrilling climax to the Anne trilogy: the world of Philippa Gregory's White Queen is seen from the point of view of her greatest rival. As England tears itself apart in the War of the Roses, Anne de Bohun lives far from the intrigues of cities and...