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The Bird Sisters

The Bird Sisters

By Rebecca Rasmussen(Paperback / softback)

When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brought them. These spinster sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But....

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Shakespeare's Mistress

Shakespeare's Mistress

By Karen Harper(Paperback)

England, 1601. When Queen Elizabeth's men come looking for William Shakespeare - a rumoured Catholic in a time of Catholic-Protestant intrigue and insurrection - they first question a beautiful, dark-haired woman who seems to know the famous playwright very well. Too well.

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Armada

Armada

By John Stack(Paperback)

The author of the MASTERS OF THE SEA series, is back with a standalone battle book that will blow all others out of the water.

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Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

By Alex Rutherford(Paperback)

Keep your enemies close, and your sons closer... Akbar, ruler of a sixth of the world's people, colossally rich and utterly ruthless, was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, but infinitely more powerful. His reign began in bloodshed when he strangled his treacherous 'milk-brother', but it ended in glory.

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The Third Section

The Third Section

By Jasper Kent(Paperback)

Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea, the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north, Saint Petersburg is blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only to sit and wait - wait for the death of an aging tsar, and for the curse upon his blood to be passed to....

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The Scottish Prisoner

The Scottish Prisoner

By Diana Gabaldon(Paperback)

In this highly-anticipated new novel, Diana Gabaldon brings back one of her most compelling characters: the unforgettable Lord John Grey - soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Set in the heart of the eighteenth century, Lord John's world is one of mystery and menace.

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The Land of Painted Caves

The Land of Painted Caves: Earth's Children (Book Six)

By Jean M Auel(Paperback / softback)

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children(R), Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks. Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the....

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The Land of Painted Caves

The Land of Painted Caves: Earth's Children (Book Six)

By Jean M Auel(Paperback / softback)

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In "The Land of Painted Caves, "Jean M. Auel brings her ice-age epic series, Earth's Children(R), to an extraordinary conclusion. As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training....

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True Soldier Gentlemen

True Soldier Gentlemen

By Adrian Goldsworthy(Paperback)

A brilliant new Napoleonic military fiction series from one of the UK's brightest young historians.

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Season of Light

Season of Light

By Katharine McMahon(Paperback)

In 1788, during in the heady days just before the French revolution, Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable 19-year-old daughter of a country squire, has travelled to the city with her older sister, Philippa. In Paris, they are introduced to the literary salon of Madame de Genlis. It is in this salon that Asa meets and falls in love with the dashing....

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Praetorian

Praetorian

By Simon Scarrow(Paperback)

The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has spread its tentacles wide. It is feared that the heart of the latest plot lies in the ranks of the Praetorian Guard.

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Conqueror

Conqueror

By Conn Iggulden(Paperback)

A scholar who conquered an empire larger than those of Alexander or Caesar. A warrior who would rule a fifth of the world with strength and wisdom. A man who betrayed a brother to protect a nation. From a young scholar to one of history's most powerful warriors, Conqueror tells the story of Kublai Khan -- an extraordinary man who....

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The Beloved of Isis

The Beloved of Isis

By Christian Jacq(Paperback)

The mysterious secret life of Mozart is revealed in this series from one of historical fiction's best-known names

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Netherwood

Netherwood

By Jane Sanderson(Paperback)

THE novel for fans of period drama. If you watched Downton Abbey, Cranford and Larkrise to Candleford, this is the book for you. Eve Williams is about to discover just how the other half really live ...

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Waiting for Robert Capa

Waiting for Robert Capa

By Susana Fortes(Paperback)

A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war and photography marked their lives.

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The King's Diamond

The King's Diamond

By Will Whitaker(Paperback)

A vivid, evocative, page-turning read that leaps off the page, with a dazzling recreation of the Renaissance diamond and gem trade. As the chaos of war spreads out across Europe, Charles V extends his empire in a series of ruthless and aggressive moves. The Medici Pope has formed an alliance to drive Charles out of Italy for good.

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Hero Of Rome

Hero Of Rome

By Douglas Jackson(Paperback)

The Roman grip on Britain is weakening. Emperor Nero has turned his face away from this far-flung outpost. The Druids are on the rise, spreading seeds of rebellion among the British tribes. Roman cruelty and exploitation has angered their British subjects.

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Death of Kings

Death of Kings

By Bernard Cornwell(Paperback)

The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation. As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices.

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Fiennders Abbey

Fiennders Abbey

By Jean Marsh(Paperback)

Beneath the still quiet of rural England as the century turned lay a complex and fatally linked series of destinies. The mistress of Fiennders Abbey was often pleased to have her corsets loosened by the estate gardener. Her elder son, Richard, never forgot his true childhood love Mary the daughter of the Fiennders' trusted gamekeeper.

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The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers

By Philippa Gregory(Hardback )

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house-hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret....

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