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By: Catherine Jinks

ISBN: 9781741149951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Based on a true story this is a compelling and intriguing family saga - a novel of closely guarded family secrets, public shame and private passion.


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By: Eric Linklater

ISBN: 9781448207572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Leslie Thomas

ISBN: 9780099550235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on a hush-hush assignment to work with Churchill, and his brother Harry, a naval officer - for Bess Spofford, Joanne Schorner, Graham Smit and all the inhabitants of the history villages of the New Forest, it was the beginning of the most bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.


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By: Daniel Yarosh

ISBN: 9781098351472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Ian Townsend

ISBN: 9780732283667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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It is the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the most powerful storms in history is born when a hurricane named Mahina moves across the Coral Sea - a storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.


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By: Jeanne Kalogridis

ISBN: 9780007266838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A compelling tale of love, lust and murder which traces the evolution of Catherine de Medici the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent from an unloved, timid orphan to France's most cunning monarch


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By: Susanne Steiner

ISBN: 9781543904666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Nick Taylor

ISBN: 9781416550662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Iain Pears

ISBN: 9780099284581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title.


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By: Emily Holleman

ISBN: 9780751560206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The author of Cleopatra's Shadows continues her reimagining of Cleopatra's rise to power through the eyes of her forgotten younger sister, Arsinoe.


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By: Marguerite Anne Muller

ISBN: 9781543916362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: George Benda

ISBN: 9781483589718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Brendan Graham

ISBN: 9780008184087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Rich and epic Historical Fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Famine. Perfect for fans of Winston Graham and Ken Follett.


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By: Brendan Graham

ISBN: 9780006513964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The story of Ellen Rua O'Malley. Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, she has fled her native land for Boston taking with her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' rescued from the hordes of the dispossessed.


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By: Barbara Hambly

ISBN: 9780553381931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Ten years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the president's widow is incarcerated in an insane asylum by her only surviving son. It is from this little-known episode that Hambly spins her intimate, insightful tapestry of this difficult, too-intelligent woman's life.


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By: Meg Clothier

ISBN: 9780099553144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Constantinople, 1179 Princess Agnes of France is thirteen when she marries the heir to Byzantium, and empire unmatched in wealth, power - and glamour. But once she sets foot in the Queen of Cities, a decadent world where dazzling luxury masks unspeakable cruelty, she realises that her husband has mighty enemies and treacherous allies.


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By: Jane Stevenson

ISBN: 9780099286653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Empress of the Last Days is the final volume of the remarkable trilogy that began with Astraea and The Pretender. A group of friends, Corinne, Theodoor and Michael, bring together their talents and knowledge to uncover the hidden story of Pelagius's royal marriage.


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By: John Cullen

ISBN: 9781590517024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Other Press LLC
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By: Peter Ackroyd

ISBN: 9780099492757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes is Ancient Troy.


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By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

ISBN: 9780751537710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Continuing the addictive saga of the Morland family, now with its many branches spread across the Empire and the new world.


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By: Anne Rice

ISBN: 9780099269472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1998
UK Publication Date: 4th December 1997
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Amongst the waterfronts, the slave markets and the gilded ballrooms lived a unique people, descended from African Slavves and from the French and Spanish who had enslaved them. They were the gens de coleur libre - the Free People of Colour - fierce and proud, neither black nor white, but caught between the two, free yet not free.


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By: Jennifer McVeigh

ISBN: 9780670920907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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South Africa - a land torn apart by greed... Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals.


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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN: 9781860460906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th August 1988
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.


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By: Lloyd Jones

ISBN: 9780143776895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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