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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720618617Author Elizabeth MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727880635Author Pamela OldfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Severn House Publishers LtdPublisher Canongate Books

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a member of his own...

Skilled with a sword and quick with her wit, Claire Stuart has learned to fend for herself. So when she's battling Highlanders and holding her own, she's offended when Graham Grant rides up on his white steed and assumes she is naught but a powerless,...

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Based loosely on the life of the author's grandfather, a professional embroiderer in the court of the last king of Vietnam in the early 1900s, Kien Nguyen has reimagined his grandfather's amazing story to weave a tapestry of his own: this stunning and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872730196Author Alexander CordellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Blorenge BooksPublisher Blorenge Books

The mighty slave army, led by Spartacus, has carried all before it, scattering the legions of Rome. Three praetors, two consuls and one proconsul have been defeated. Spartacus seems invincible as he marches towards the Alps and freedom. But storm clouds...

Now a Sunday Times bestseller!Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a cunning and relentless enemy in BRITANNIA, the unforgettable fourteenth novel in the bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes...

'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her...

A special Sophie Allport Design limited edition of Kate Morton's heart-breaking novel, The Secret Keeper; a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, murder and enduring love, moving between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present. 1961: On a sweltering...

One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world - Ben Kane After the bloody trials of Alexandria, Sir William Gold is readying for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to ease the burden on his soul. He hopes, too, that the Holy City might allow his...

'Richly detailed' THE NEW YORKER'Carr has taken an often overly romanticised historical figure and given her new life and originality.' THE TIMES'A vivid, visceral read' TRACY CHEVALIER'Bold and immediate' TLS***They are imprisoned, but not contained...

For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party. Duty, scandal, and a mother’s desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them. 'A breathtakingly good, heartbreaking and utterly absorbing story.' Cressida Connolly,...

Praise for Peter Gibbons:'Epic, brutal action' - Matthew Harffy'Bloody and brutal, Peter's vivid writing really brings the story to life.' - Donovan Cook'A superbly atmospheric tale of redemption that pitches the English against Viking raiders and...

A sloth with a special gift in a shocking, imaginative farce that queers and undermines the glories of great men and their thirst for power.At the port of Buenos Aires in September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people...

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’1820, and the marriage between wealthy widower Sir Edward Knatchbull and Jane Austen’s handsome, dutiful niece Fanny Knight is widely...

Hong Kong 1941 and the streets are filled with Japanese soldiers. Two young people are brought together then separated by terrible cruelty.Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community,...

Hong Kong 1941 and the streets are filled with Japanese soldiers. Two young people are brought together then separated by terrible cruelty.Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community,...

Hong Kong 1941 and the streets are filled with Japanese soldiers. Two young people are brought together then separated by terrible cruelty.Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community,...

Kit Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of enemies and old flames in his wake. His plays are a roaring success; he seems destined for greatness.But the queen's...

Praise for Peter Gibbons:'Epic, brutal action' - Matthew Harffy'Bloody and brutal, Peter's vivid writing really brings the story to life.' - Donovan Cook'A superbly atmospheric tale of redemption that pitches the English against Viking raiders and...

Praise for Peter Gibbons:'Epic, brutal action' - Matthew Harffy'Bloody and brutal, Peter's vivid writing really brings the story to life.' - Donovan Cook'A superbly atmospheric tale of redemption that pitches the English against Viking raiders and...

An evocative, unputdownable novel about the infamous Salome. Discover the woman behind the myth, in this epic and opulent novel, perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Madeline Miller, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir....................A dutiful royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529347401Author James TreadwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Hodder PaperbackPublisher Hodder & Stoughton

Alain Banza is witness in Katanga province to an event that will prove pivotal to the future of Congo, soon after it gains its independence from Belgium in 1960. We are with Alain as he meets Kim de Rochefort, an investigative journalist in Paris. Their...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761347948Author Mary-Anne O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836034971Author Carly SchabowskiFormat PaperbackImprint Boldwood Books LtdPublisher Boldwood Books Ltd

Preorder a Regency Romance for all Austen fans! From bestselling author Fenella J MillerMiss Kitty Bennet is travelling to Pemberley in order to become a companion and friend to Miss Georgiana Darcy when the coach she is travelling in crashes.Bingley is...

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'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie O’FarrellYoung toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore and ordered to create a musical tiger to delight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837942732Author Keith FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

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Moscow, 1985. Four teenagers – Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol and cigarettes – yearn for a world of Levi’s, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035426331Author Kristin HarmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mountain Leopard PressPublisher Headline Publishing Group

‘Three Faces’ artfully brings to life Aphra Behn, the first Englishwoman to make her living as a professional writer. How did the daughter of a Kentish barber and a wet nurse come to rub shoulders with the highest in the land and be buried in Westminster...