Tag: historical
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Agrippa
by Robert Harris Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and,…
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The Finest Hotel In Kabul
by Lyse Doucet In 1969, the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened for the first time: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that symbolised Afghans’ hopes for a more prosperous future. In the decades since, its staff have kept working through multiple coups, a Soviet occupation, the US-led invasion, and the rise, fall and rise…
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Land
by Maggie O’Farrell On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an…
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The Boleyn Secret
by Alison Weir At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent woman to a terrible death. As the Boleyns fall from favour, Kate serves her now motherless cousin, the young Lady Elizabeth.…
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Tyrant of Rome
by Simon Scarrow THE EPIC NEW EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROW The city of Rome. The most dangerous place in the Empire. The fates of military heroes Macro and Cato lie in Emperor Nero’s bloody hands . . . AD 62. Under the reckless and tumultuous leadership of Emperor Nero, Rome is…
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Darkleigh
by Lee Pennell Cricklade Author’s historical novel ‘Darkleigh’ is the title of the exciting new novel written by accomplished author Lee Pennell, which is the pen name used by Elisabeth Anne White, better known to her friends as ‘Bizzie’. It is set in 1815 with change coming to the remote hamlet of Knights Darkleigh as…
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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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Boleyn Traitor
by Philippa Gregory She survives four queens. Will she fall to a tyrant? Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more powerful than a secret – or more deadly. As the Boleyns rise, Jane rises with them. But the king’s love is a fickle thing. And when the royal…
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. In the spring of 1666, a bolt of infected cloth carries the plague from London to the quiet…
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Circle of Days
by Ken Follett A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her…