Tag: Historical Fiction
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Once The Deed Is Done
by Rachel Seiffert Northern Germany, 1945. Dead of night and dead of winter, a boy hears soldiers and sees strangers – forced labourers – fleeing across the heathland by his small town: shawls and skirts in the snowfall. The end days are close, war brings risk and chance, and Benno is witness to something he…
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Revenge of Rome
by Simon Scarrow ROME AND BOUDICA. A DUEL TO THE DEATH.AD 61. Britannia is divided. The rebel horde has been defeated. But the leader, Boudica, and her remaining warriors are still at large. With them is the eagle standard of the Ninth Legion, taken in ambush, flaunted as proof that Rome can yet be beaten.…
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The Knight’s Pledge
by Scott Mariani THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT IN THE WILL BOWMAN SERIES, FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 1191. Will Bowman, now fully entangled in Richard Lionheart’s crusade, has reached the Holy Land. However, just as he and his crew are about to touch down in Acre, they are drawn into an intense battle at sea,…
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Sharpe’s Storm
by Bernard Cornwell The gripping new novel from internationally bestselling master of historical fiction Bernard Cornwell. ‘There is everything here that Sharpe fans will love. If this really is the last time Sharpe wields his heavy cavalry sword, he will be sorely missed’ The Times If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe ……
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The Berlin Wife
by Marion Kummerow When shy, beautiful Edith first met Jewish-born Julius it was love at first sight. Julius swept her off her feet, whisking her from humble beginnings into the sparkling society and glittering ballrooms of Berlin’s powerful elite. It felt like all her dreams had come true. But her perfect world begins to crack with rumblings of the…
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The Cardinal
By Alison Weir AN EXTRAORDINARY RISE TO POWER. A TRAGIC FALL FROM GRACE. It begins with young Tom Wolsey, the bright and brilliant son of a Suffolk tradesman, sent to study at Oxford at just eleven years old. It ends with a disgraced cardinal, cast from the King’s side and estranged from the woman he…
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The Elopement
Gill Hornby 1820. Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward – a man of strict principles and high Christian values. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life is suddenly changed. Her new stepmother comes from a large, happy and sociable family…
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
by Katherine Arden Amid the falling shells of Flanders Field, magic and mystery fills the air… January 1918: Laura Iven, a Canadian nurse, returns home from the war, only to receive devastating news – her brother Freddie is dead. But something doesn’t quite make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura heads back to Belgium,…
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James
by Percival Everett The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape…