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By: Ursula Werner

ISBN: 9781501147586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: William Palmer

ISBN: 9780099584322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Opening in 1939, this novel spans 50 years and depicts the central character's life as a political emigre in a run down part of London. He is invited to return to his home city by the renascent nationalist movement where he learns the price of remaining an "innocent" in history.


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By: Nodira Najmiddinova

ISBN: 9798350938654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Jean Plaidy

ISBN: 9780099510284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land.

Through all the years of his reign, through stark personal tragedy and chill forebodings as his son grew into a weak, corrupted price, Edward I strove to weld a nation united from England, Scotland and Wales.


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By: Roberta Rich

ISBN: 9780091944919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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If there ever was a time when the Empire required a male heir it was now.

In the opulent royal palace of Murat III, on the shores of Constantinople, midwife Hannah Levi is charged with ensuring the Sultans harem provides him with a male heir.


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By: Jean Plaidy

ISBN: 9780099493280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2007
Publisher: Cornerstone
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At the age of thirty-two, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne. Leaving England to begin his crusade, Richard's kingdom is left in the hands of his brother, John, who casts covetous eyes on the crown, and his sister, Joanna, who is willing to defy even a king.


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By: Boyd Anderson

ISBN: 9780857981608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Random House Australia
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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: Louisa Young

ISBN: 9780007361472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Heroes Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Youngs wonderful writing, and those previously enthralled by the stories of Nadine and Riley, Rose, Peter and Julia.


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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: 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: Erika Robuck

ISBN: 9780593102145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"Based on the ... true story of a World War II heroine"--Back cover.


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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: 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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