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In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbour. Young, strawberry-blond-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore.

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* A heady cocktail of fact and fiction this is a hilarious exploration of the lacunae in official histories, demonstrating that it's the fittest who survive - but the fittest are not necessarily the biggest and strongest. The sequel to the hugely successful A VERY ENGLISH AGENT

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Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how "the Black Ajax" became as famous a figure in England as Napoleon -- and just as much a threat to its establishment -- before he passed into boxing legend and created a precedent for modern black prizefighters.

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When journalist Michael Wilde is commissioned to write a feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of Antarctica he is prepared for some extraordinary sights. But on a diving expedition in the polar sea he comes across something so extraordinary to be almost unbelievable - a man and woman chained together, deep in the ice.

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From the bestselling author of WARRIOR OF ROME comes the second book in an epic new series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.

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The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of late medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman.

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Bloodletting and Germs is a historical novel set at the dawn of modern medical science. The personal and professional energies of a country doctor and his wife put humanity's face on a period of profound scientific and social transformation.

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Based on true tales of survival and adventure, a settler boy's journal, and the tape-recorded reminiscences of a venerable Comanche woman, Bold Crossings is the multicultural story of early teens who survive countless hardships and buck traditions as they come of age on the deadly plains of 1830's Texas.

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Fleeing the family farm disguised as a man after killing her abusive stepfather, Josie Summers meets and marries the Reverend John Trethman. But when he is kidnapped by British soldiers, Josie must risk her life to find her husband.

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Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends;

But just as Joey's fate is inextricably linked with the country of his birth, so too is the fate of America, and both of their paths will ultimately lead to Nagasaki.

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Una emocionante novela basada en hechos reales que rescata del olvido una de las historias ms conmovedoras de herosmo de una madre alemana en medio del terror nazi.

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A haunting story of what happens when family secrets collide with history, Casa Rossa moves from the duplicity of Italy's role in the 1930s to the dark years of Red Brigade's terrorism in the seventies.

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Swept from her life of luxury into the squalid brutality of battle and the loneliness of exile, her heart was torn by the two men she loved - her husband, tragic Charles I and charismatic Harry Jermyn, who designed and built most of London's West End, including the street which bears his name.

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A biographical novel in the grand European literary tradition that spans multiple generations and three centuries of tumultuous Central European history, as witnessed by the Esterhazys, a leading Hungarian family.

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It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer.

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From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the Second World War, now available in trade paper.

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Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world.

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In Israel, in the turbulent first century, a baby is born to a humble Jewish family - but to a great destiny.