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In the early years of the 1800's, British Naval officer, First Officer, Richard Welch of the HMS Essex, assumes the rank of captain and joins in the hunt for a French warship, the Ombre de Cordeau or Raven's Shadow. In his pursuit, he feels he is somehow connected with it's captain, Armand Gerbier.

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The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre.

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A sumptuous wedding feast, two advantageous marriages and a blessing from the golden king

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No one stands a chance as it brings a bloody war to all those who stand in its way, determined to crush and enslave those on its borders.

The little city state of Akkad must prepare its fledgling nation to fight for its very survival.

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A novel written in parallel with The Lady Tree, in other words sharing some of the same characters but independent of the first book.

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In 1954, as civil war looms over Guatemala, a startling discovery at an archaeological dig triggers a series of events that threaten the lives and well-being of three women.

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Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history - and for butterflies in particular.

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Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who will stop at nothing to place their sons on the English throne. In exile in France with her young son Prince Edward, Margaret of Anjou at last gives up on promises of aid by King Louis and sets sail for England.

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Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth, Rebels and Traitors tells of soldiers, adventurers, aristocrats and kings, tradesmen, politicians, radicals and scavengers - and the hopes and dreams that carried them through one of the most turbulent eras of English history.

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Experience the chaos and weirdness of the Soviet Union's fumble toward capitalism in the early 1990s. 'Red Bottom Line' follows impetuous American consultant Jeff Teneson's attempt to make a fortune in Moscow's risky business scene, but he gets caught in a tug of war between ex-KGB agents and ambitious locals.

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A wonderfully evocative epic novel in the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautifully written and exquisitely told, Red Lotus is a captivating tale of forbidden love, passion and courage.

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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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