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A gripping adventure in which Mercer brilliantly brings to life the story of soldiers in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

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Madrid, 1650. The painter Valazquez becomes obsessed by the 12-year-old infanta he's commissioned to paint, a child on the brink of becoming a woman. As the painter struggles with his portrait in the exotic surroundings of the Hapsburg court, the infanta's story must be told.

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Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It focuses on the love affair between Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman, and Conran, an Orcadian stonemason.

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Another splendid Tudor novel from Jean Plaidy - departing from her usual tales of passions and scandal in the court of Henry VIII, Saint Thomas's Eve tells the story of Sir Thomas More and his ambitious daughters.

Henry VII once warned his son, the future King of England, not to trust Thomas More;

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Story based on historical fact recreating the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, who bore him seven children. This novel explores the nature of love & hate, freedom & bondage from differing viewpoints.

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People may know that Abraham, the great Patriarch of the Old Testament, was the first man to spread God's word. But how many know of his wife, Sarah How she was born into a wealthy and powerful family in the Sumerian city of Ur

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With little expectation of happiness, Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husband, infrantryman Jean-Claude Babelon. When both Elisabeth and Auguste find their love challenged by Babelon's duplicity, the consequences are devastating.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010.

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"Present day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart"--

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She holds the key to a kingdoms future

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A heart-wrenching novel that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ingrid Bergman and Robert Capa, from the screenwriter of the acclaimed 2009 film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, for the anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's death and the seventieth anniversary of Casablanca.

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HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict.

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When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies.

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Set in England when Vikings are on the brink of invasion, this is an epic tale of seduction, war, and unrequited love from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction

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And as church records show - were anyone to look for them - Anne Whateley was wed to William Shakespeare in a small country church just days before he married another woman, Anne Hathaway, who has lived as his wife for decades.

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From the scaffold of the Globe theatre to a menace in Whitehall, this is a gripping tale of corruption, rebellion and love.

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A timely reissue of a 1984 hardcover bestseller by acclaimed medieval novelist Pamela Kaufman, author of the new "The Book of Eleanor. Shield of Three Lions" is a rollicking, bawdy story of a wronged young heiress who goes on a crusade with Richard the Lionheart in pursuit of her stolen birthright.

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Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas