Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Elizabeth Chadwick and sweeping, juicy historical dramas

Meanwhile, in London, young Tamasine tries to keep faith with Rupert Carlton, the man whos declared his love for her, but who is proving oddly elusive. And on a convict ship bound for Botany Bay, the familys blackest sheep is battling to survive.

It is 1793 and in Corwall the Loveday shipyard is struggling, forcing Adam to help emigres escape from revolutionary France. Meanwhile Adam's brother, St John, is in trouble due to his smuggling and a gambling wife. The scandal adds to the families' dissent - can they unite once more

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Aims to bring Restoration London to raucous life. This novel tells the story of the love affair between Samuel Pepys' clerk and a lively, exuberant lady-in-waiting to Charles II's queen.

A planetary monitoring station in Eastern Europe picks up a message from an advanced unknown civilization. But the world's superpowers do not want to establish contact, and the scientists find themselves at the heart of a global conspiracy.

In this gritty and dramatic new saga, Adele Vincent is left on her own to bring up her son in the village of Lydgate in Lancashire. As the novel opens, in 1936, the future looks bleak, and there are many hurdles ahead, but Adele is nothing if not determined, and she will find a way to make a good life for herself and her boy.

"The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid.

"The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid.

When Chinese student Jiao Mei sees the ghost of her grandmother, Tie Mei, in her Hampstead bedroom, she is forced to reconsider her cultural heritage. Pregnant by her Western boyfriend, Tie Mei fears for her reputation and urges her to return to China, but first Tie Mei has other scores to settle.

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Experimental psychologist David Walker once had an affair with his pupil Helen Costelloe. Two years later, the newly-widowed Helen writes to him asking for help. But once he arrives at the house she has inherited, he finds a family history that includes a madness that stretches back 100 years.

Mary Costelloe contacts David Norton, an experimental psychologist, out of the blue, about Malpas - the vast, crumbling house in Munster she has inherited. He agrees to visit, only to find himself in a dark story of madness and suicide that stretches back 100 years.

A story of the last hours of a women who has lost her husband at sea, who sets out to face her own inevitable death. As storms, shipwrecks and her own buried secrets conspire against her, her chances of surviving long enough either to kill herself, or to find redemption begin to grow slim.

On his return to Thebes after great victories against sea raiders, Pharaoh Tuthmosis II is struck dead at the foot of the statue of Amun-Ra. As news of his death spreads, a witch pollutes the Pharaoh's unfinished tomb, and so begins a series of events which must reveal the great secrets of Egypt.

BIRDSONG told the story of the First World War. ATONEMENTdescribed the Second. Now there is THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, Emma Darwin's extraordinary debut.

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Julie Highmore is is known for her witty dialogue and likeable cast of characters - 'She writes wonderfully well. Her style is restrained and supremely confident, pruned of unnecessary detail and sparkling with mordant wit' Wendy Holden - THE MESSAGE promises to be her most enjoyable yet

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A novel set in the 1920s from the author of 'Her Father's Child' and 'Professional Woman'.

Calamity has struck the community of the Abbey of Imleach. Not only has an elderly brother disappeared but also the holy relics of St Ailbe have vanished. Sister Fidelma, with Saxon Brother Eadulf, are asked to investigate. And it seems there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye.

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The moon exerts much influence over the earth and its inhabitants, both scientifically and artistically. The earliest astronomers expended much energy in attempts to map the moon, and it has a central role in virtually all mythologies. The text presents the stories and science of the moon.

Since the dawn of time, the moon has exerted a tremendous influence over the earth and its inhabitants, both scientifically and artistically. The myriad of stories and fascinating science which this tale comprises have now been brought together in this volume.

This is a story of love, loss and the sustaining power of Indian cookery, 'The Mountain of Light' marries tales of a yearned for childhood in India with myths of the phoenix's love for cinnamon, and the recipe for the perfect kulfi.

Part of "Little Black Dress", which presents romantic novels with the modern girl in mind.

Between 1720 and 1751, the gin craze nearly overwhelmed London. Based on extensive research, this work provides an evocative account of the gin craze and its effects upon the people of Georgian England.

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Between 1720 and 1751, the "gin craze" nearly overwhelmed London. Patrick Dillon's book follows the history of gin, or "geneva", from its introduction from Holland after the Glorious Revolution, to its role as the sustenance of the poor - a quick trip to oblivion in squalid 18th-century London.

This is a novel by Sue Gee, author of 'Earth and Heaven', 'The Hours of the Night' and 'Thin Air'.