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(Paperback, Main)

By: Tim Powers

ISBN: 9781848874091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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From multi-award-winning fantasy writer Tim Powers: a secret history of 19th-century London.

'Tim Powers is a brilliant writer... Wonderfully original' William Gibson


(Paperback)

By: Nigel Tranter

ISBN: 9780340823590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Nigel Tranter's last book: the enthralling story of Thomas Hope, who counselled three kings. He first came to court to serve James VI and I, as he piloted Scotland through the union with England; he counselled Charles I through his tragic reign, witnessed Cromwell's rule in Scotland and finally, the restoration of Charles II.


(Paperback)

By: Andrea Camilleri

ISBN: 9781447265948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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From Andrea Camilleri, the internationally bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series, a delightful historical murder mystery and comic novel of huge brio.


(Hardback, Main)

By: Christopher Wilson

ISBN: 9780571361946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A bitingly funny historical novel, following Brother Diggory on an eerily prescient journey through fourteenth-century England.


(Hardback)

By: Betsy Tobin

ISBN: 9781906021146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Freya knows that her people are doomed. Warned by the fates of an impending catastrophe, she goes in search of a magnificent gold necklace that will save her people from destruction. But to obtain the necklace she must pay a terrible price and sell herself to the four brothers who created it.


(Hardback)

By: Naomi Miller

ISBN: 9780749026172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Allison & Busby
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Miller revisits and reimagines the life of one of Shakespeare's neglected female literary contemporaries, Mary Sidney Herbert.


(Paperback)

By: Naomi Miller

ISBN: 9780749026271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Allison & Busby
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Miller revisits and reimagines the life of one of Shakespeare's neglected female literary contemporaries, Mary Sidney Herbert.


(Hardback)

By: Alison Weir

ISBN: 9781472286284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The complete SIX TUDOR QUEENS series short-story collection by acclaimed historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir.


By: Jude Morgan

ISBN: 9780755307647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A tale of love and Miss Fortune.


By: Jude Morgan

ISBN: 9780755326433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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When her father finally admits that they have no money left, and his ambitions to once again 'tread the boards' as an actor fall far short of success, Caroline Fortune is obligated to find employment herself.


(Hardback)

By: Mary Pat Kelly

ISBN: 9780765380883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Irish-American author Mary Pat Kelly draws upon family history to craft another striking work of historical fiction featuring Chicago-born heroine Nora Kelly


(Paperback)

By: Mary Pat Kelly

ISBN: 9780765380890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Irish-American author Mary Pat Kelly draws upon family history to craft another striking work of historical fiction featuring Chicago-born heroine Nora Kelly


(, New edition)

By: Harry Bowling

ISBN: 9780755330744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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In Jubilee Dwellings, two sisters give birth to daughters: one illegitimate, the other disabled. Connie and Molly grow up together, playing in the gutters. Life may be hard but they wouldn't be parted for the world. Until Connie gets a job at the metal factory and meets the handsome Robert Armitage.


By: Martin O'Brien

ISBN: 9780755322855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Daniel Jacquot is on the case again - this time in a Provencal village with a crime going back to the war.


(Paperback)

By: Anna Jacobs

ISBN: 9781444725100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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(Paperback)

By: Stephanie Parkyn

ISBN: 9781760529833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France


(, Main)

By: Rex Warner

ISBN: 9780571242948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Lunn

ISBN: 9780747274407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Killigrew is engaged in a deadly pursuit across the Pacific, trying to capture six of Van Dieman's Land's most notorious convicts. When he reaches the New Hebrides a dangerous game of cat and mouse ensues, with Killigrew risking his all to stop the convicts' barbaric plans.


By: Jonathan Lunn

ISBN: 9780755320691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Offers a tale of subterfuge and double-crossing, from dark deeds in the underworld of Victorian London, to international espionage and warfare in the Baltic.


By: Jonathan Lunn

ISBN: 9780755320677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The Baltic, 1854. "War tourist" Viscount Bullivant and his family are kidnapped by the Russians. It falls to Commander Kit Killigrew to escape the Tsarist secret police, rescue the Bullivants, steal back their yacht, sail through the Ekenas Archipelago and defeat Captain-Lieutenant Pechorin.


By: Grace Burrowes

ISBN: 9781402268632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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No one would ever guess that Lady Louisa, the most reserved of the Duke of Moreland's daughters, had published a book of racy poems under a pseudonym on a dare. Before she can destroy all of the copies, a dastardly fortune hunter seeks to reveal her secret identity. Original.


(Hardback)

By: Steven Price

ISBN: 9781529019643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The story of how one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century came to be.


(Paperback, Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland)

By: J.R. Thorp

ISBN: 9781838856274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history.


(Hardback, Main)

By: Francis Spufford

ISBN: 9780571336487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of five everyday lives - their dramas, their redemptions, their commonplace miracles - in the teeming, ever-changing immensity of 20th century London.

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