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By: James Welch

ISBN: 9780385496759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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From the award-winning author of the Native American classic "Fools Crow", a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of 19th-century Marseille.


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By: Robert Morgan

ISBN: 9780732267919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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The voices of three generations of Appalachian mountain folk recount their family's saga of settling Kentucky - from the impenetrable wilderness of 1771, through the 1816 building of roads, to the creation of a turnpike over the mountains in 1845.


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By: Carl-Johan Vallgren

ISBN: 9780099464396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth.

As he tells the story of Hercules' bizarre and colourful life, which leads him from the bordello of his birth to a travelling freak show and then a Jesuit monastery and an asylum, Vallgren paints a magical picture of nineteenth-century Europe.


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By: Sarah Maine

ISBN: 9781760297046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An atmospheric debut about a woman who discovers the century-old remains of a murder victim on her family's Scottish estate plunging her into an investigation of its mysterious former occupants.


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By: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9781982141790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.


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By: Anna-Marie Crowhurst

ISBN: 9781760632229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A charming, whip-smart and funny tale, full of heart and spirit, of one young woman's coming of age both on and off the stage in seventeenth-century England.


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By: Susan Gregg Gilmore

ISBN: 9780307395047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Shaye Arehart Books"--T.p. verso.


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By: Colleen McCullough

ISBN: 9780732287245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Colleen McCullough paints a life for Mary Bennet 20 years after Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice closes. Events transpire that free Mary from her family obligations and dangle the allurements of independence before her hungry gaze. She resolves to publish a book about the plight of England's poor and embarks upon a mission of investigation.


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By: Douglas Reeman

ISBN: 9780099591672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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But it is the summer of 1944, and on every front the war is going badly for Germany.

When the roder comes to leave the Baltic to attack and destroy eenmy shipping in the Atlantic, Kapitan zur See Dieter Hechler knows that once out in the vast killing ground it will only be a matter of time before the hunter becomes the hunted.


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By: Anita Abriel

ISBN: 9781761101335
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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By: Suzanne Brogger

ISBN: 9781846559068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Beginning with the great-grandfather Isidor Levin and his emigration from Poland in the 19th century, his establishment of The Royal Danish Distillery and the family's successful assimilation in Denmark, this book follows the children and grandchildren, as they look for successes in Denmark and abroad, in business and within the arts.


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By: Donald Hunt

ISBN: 9781543965032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Austin Ratner

ISBN: 9780241961391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Austria, 1928. A murder trial sends shockwaves across Europe. An unknown young man named Philippe Halsman stands unjustly accused of killing his father. Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann are moved to speak out on his behalf. But as he fights to prove his innocence, a whole nation turns against him.


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By: Kerri Maher

ISBN: 9780451492050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The captivating exploits of the rebellious daughter of one of America's greatest political dynasties.


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By: Emma Campion

ISBN: 9780099497936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone
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From childhood Alice Salisbury has learnt obedience in all things and at fourteen dutifully marries the man her father has chosen for her - at the cost of losing for ever the love of her mother and the family she holds dear.


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By: Jean Plaidy

ISBN: 9780099493167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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After twelve years of marriage, the once fortuitous union of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon has declined into a loveless stalemate. Their only child, Mary, is disregarded as a suitable heir, and Henry's need for a legitimate son to protect the Tudor throne has turned him into a callous and greatly feared ruler.


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By: Peter Ransley

ISBN: 9780007312429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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What price betrayal The bloody saga of revolution and republicanism reaches its climax in the final instalment of the Tom Neave trilogy.


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By: Robert Alexander

ISBN: 9780142003817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The haunting bestseller about the mysterious last days of the Romanovs as seen through the eyes of a young family servant. Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka.


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By: Jane Borodale

ISBN: 9780007313334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted The Book of Fires, an extraordinary tale of love and science.


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By: Peter Ackroyd

ISBN: 9780099472094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile.


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By: Jeanne Mackin

ISBN: 9780399585906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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An American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli.


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By: Lesley Downer

ISBN: 9780552155205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 12th February 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.

But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life.

Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ....


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By: Morris West

ISBN: 9781760297763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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This rich and intense novel is a tribute to Giordano Bruno, a brilliant Dominican monk who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1600. Published posthumously, it is a tribute to Morris West himself, a man of great compassion who always held firm against those in his church who used doctrine and dogma to oppress others.


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By: Lesley Lokko

ISBN: 9781409137665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A powerful, compelling drama of family secrets spanning decades.
'Perfect for Downton fans' THE LADY

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