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Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a

A Darker Sea

The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest

The Assassin of Verona

All is not well in Venice. Threatened daily by Papal assassins, William Shakespeare and his close friends Oldcastle and Hemminges are increasingly isolated--the lies that...

Henderson's Boys Vol 5: The Prisoner

The fifth adventure in the Henderson's Boys series: find out how CHERUB began! One of Henderson's best agents is being held captive in Frankfurt. A

Forbidden

„La începutul secolului al XIX-lea Anglia, Josie, în vârstă de 16 ani, se află într-un loc sinistru, cu oameni misterioși, ostili, inclusiv rudele ei. Persistența

Pack Up Your Troubles

The sixth and final book in the War at Home series by the author of The Morland Dynasty novels. Set against the evocative backdrop of

All True Adventures of the Daredevil

The 1880s are drawing to a close, and 14(-maybe-15)-year-old Daniel Bones fears that the prospects for him and his younger brother Will may be dimming

A Most English Princess

Perfect pentru fanii serialelor Victoria de la BBC, The Accidental Empress de Alison Pataki și Victoria de Daisy Goodwin, acest roman de debut spune povestea

War Lord: Book 13 (The Last Kingdom Series)

After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new woman

A Time for Renewal

In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild. In the town of

The Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a survivor

The Swords of Fire: Book 1

Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country's military dictator, the Shogun is shutting his country down to any outside influences. Father

Dark Days For The Tabacco Girls

The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives

Young Bloods

Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led

The Twisted Threads of Polly Freeman

It s 1838. Polly is sent from a London workhouse to Quarry Bank Cotton Mill. The family who own Quarry Bank care for their apprentice

This I know

Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist--compassionate, uncannily wise Grace--This I Know is a luminous

Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History

Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme R...

The Queen's Governess

'Fans of The Crown will enjoy this poignant look behind the royal curtain' Georgie Blalock, a crown princess. Her childhood nanny. A shocking betrayal... Marion

The Testimony of Alys Twist

1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill. But the people should have been

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War

The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a

Pack Up Your Troubles

1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward

The Healing

A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich

The Munitions Girls

1943, Gosport, Hampshire: Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory. Not for the first time, her mother has run off with

The Falling Sword

THE FALLING SWORD is the gripping follow-up to CLASH OF EMPIRES from Ben Kane, the master of historical fiction - for fans of Simon Scarrow,

A Grasp Of Kaspar

Munich 1956. The war is over but not forgotten. The West German economic miracle is underway, and American investors are looking for opportunities, but some

Titian's Boatman

Este 1576 și Veneția este în haos, devastată de ciumă și copleșită de crimă. În mijlocul anarhiei găsim acele suflete curajoase care au ales să

Last Hope Island

A Mail on Sundaybook of the year. In 1940, Europe was on the brink of collapse. Country after country had fallen to the Nazis, and

The Light at the End of the Day

When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money

Kettle of Fish

In 1857, the Tweed Fisheries Act made it illegal to fish for salmon in 50 square miles of open sea off the mouth of the

Triangle Trade

In 1804, Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success, in Parliament, of the

Alexander

This historical fantasy, written by the son of the well-known German novelist Thomas Mann, takes Alexander the Great for its subject, charting his life and

The Heresy of Dr Dee: Book 2 (The John Dee Papers Series)

Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts—the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. John Dee, perfect for fans of C. J.

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes

The Road to Grantchester

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No

The One Man

Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. But he has little left to live for - his family were torn away from him, his life's

Time's Convert

From human to vampire... Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced

Emperor's Axe

The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor

Terrible Virtue

In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of

Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton

Most esteemed members of the Ton, we are delighted to extend a very special invitation . . . let the notorious Lady Whistledown be your

Ace, King, Knave

Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like. Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently

The Singapore Grip

In Singapore in 1939 Walter Blackettâ€s rubber business is benefitting hugely from the war, but his children have proved unsuitable successors and when the son

No Boys Play Here

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Noveller. Collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together in one

Falling Thread

Manchester, vara anului 1890. Un oraș zgomot de industrie și strălucitor de bogăție. Dar pentru Charles, închis în vila suburbană a părinților săi din clasa

Murder at Crossways

In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final f te of the Newport social season. The party's over for a visiting prince found

Sir Gawain: Knight of the Goddess

Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur, was once the most important knight at Arthur's court, a shining example of all that was best in

A Single Thread

DE LA AUTOAREA BESTSELLERULUI MONDIAL FATA CU CERCEL DE PERLĂ 'Dulce-amăruie... amețitoare' Guardian 'Profund plăcută ... finalul m-a făcut să plâng' The Times '...

The Secret Chord

'A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our

Nellie's Heartbreak

As a small child, Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother’s rejection. Abandoned and sent into service at Beaumont House at an early

Dream Weavers

'Mercia, 788 AD. In the grand Saxon halls of Mercia, King Offa rules with cold ambition. His youngest daughter Eadburh is determined to carve her

The Four Swans (Poldark Series)

The Four Swans is the sixth novel in Winston Graham's sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero

Sisters at War

Bryony and Hannah are sisters, but they couldn't be more different, and war has brought even more of a rift between them. Bryony is happiest

Rare Objects

In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing novel by the

Crescendo

During the Great Depression, Fred Allen is born poor and hungry in the shadow of rural Georgia’s infamous cotton mills. By the time Fred is

Invictus (Eagles of the Empire)

The Sunday Times bestesller. INVICTUS is a gripping, authentic and exciting novel of the Roman army from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed

The Dark Days Pact : A Lady Helen Novel

Combining Jane Austen's high society and Cassandra Clare's supernatural underworld, Alison Goodman's second novel in the Lady Helen trilogy will delight fans of historic...

Fading of the Light

1902. Spindrift House, Cornwall Edith Fairchild, deserted by her feckless husband Benedict eight years before, has established the thriving Spindrift artists' commun...

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, “one of the

Glorious Guinness Girls

From London to Ireland in 1920s, a glorious, gripping, moving and richly textured novel which takes us to the heart of the remarkable real-life story