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  • The Author's Guide to Murder
    "A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart." — Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Three beloved New York Times bestselling novelists, one marvelously entertaining locked-room whodunit! When a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study...
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  • Regency Family Scandals/Secretly Bound To The Marquess/The Lady Behind The Masquerade
    Secretly Bound To The Marquess One passionate night, a seven-year-old secret... Widowed Lady Eliza Varden must endure one more ball before she can politely return to the country. Only her last dance brings her face-to-face with Nathaniel, the new Marquess of Hale. It’s been years since their steamy encounter, but the spark between them is as alive as ever. Yet...
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  • On the Run
    Ryan Kaine is on the run... A seemingly routine operation ends in tragedy when eighty-three civilians are killed in an aircraft explosion. Kaine, a highly decorated former Royal Marine, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt; the police want him on terrorism charges, and a sinister organisation wants him dead. In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, Kaine is...
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  • On the Rocks
    One man's redemption quest becomes a race against time to save a life. International fugitive Ryan Kaine, still haunted by the deaths of 83 civilians on flight BE1555, abandons his pursuit of exoneration to save a missing schoolboy. Martin Princeton lies dying on a Scottish mountainside, and Kaine knows he's the boy's best hope for survival. Battling his own injuries...
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  • Mutual Interest
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    An enthralling, dishy novel about ambition, sexuality, and the rise of a capitalist empire in post-Gilded Age New York. Hernan Diaz's Trust but make it gay? Narrated in the sly-eyed style of Plain Bad Heroines? I am absolutely buying what this book is selling, an epic and intimate tale of three secretly queer aspiring business titans who band together—and in...
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  • Murder at Whitechapel Road Station
    April 1941, London. In an air raid shelter beneath Whitechapel Road, a woman's mutilated body is found, evoking grim memories of Jack the Ripper. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate. In the dark tunnels, they discover a battered Victorian doctor's bag filled with surgical tools, but has it been deliberately abandoned? As...
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  • Knave of Diamonds
    When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her Uncle Jake, the black sheep of the family. But she hasn't heard from him in many years, until he presents himself at her door with an abundance of problems for his clever niece to deal with. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first...
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  • Streets of Laredo
    The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American West. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a...
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  • I, Spy
    A thrilling mystery adventure set in Bletchley Park at the start of World War II, based on true events. Perfect for fans of Phil Earle and Hilary McKay. "A highly original, gripping World War II story" - Emma Carroll Twelve-year-old Robyn has grown up in Bletchley Park, where her father works as a driver. When she's not at school, there's...
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  • Flashman and the Tiger
    Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. In addition to the other famous adventures, come three episodes in the career of this eminent, if disreputable, adventurer. Plumbing the depths of...
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  • Five Children on the Western Front
    WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE Magnificent. - The Times Outstanding. - Independent Deeply moving. - Guardian Simply brilliant. - Daily Mail One of the best books of the year. - Sunday Express Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar...
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  • Duke's One-Night Heir/Resisting The Roguish Captain
    Duke’s One-Night Heir - Sarah Rodi A secret son... demands a wedding! About to inherit a dukedom, Edward Harrington’s search for a suitable bride ends abruptly when a baby is thrust into his arms! His eyes meet Beatrice Puddifoot, the enchanting serving maid he shared an all-consuming connection with. They both knew their bond could never last beyond that one...
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  • Die For A King
    How far will his loyalty go? 1191. For young knight Will Bowman, newly restored to the service of King Richard 'the Lionheart', the savage wars in the Holy Land continue unabated. In the wake of their siege of Acre comes battle after battle against the might of the great sultan, Saladin. By a miracle Will has managed to survive this...
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  • Consider the Consequences
    The course of true love never did run smooth, but now you have only yourself to blame. No more throwing books across the room in frustration at the naïve, hasty or downright dumb decisions made by the protagonist - this time you're in charge! Will you choose to play as Helen - young, beautiful, excited about exploring the big, wide...
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  • Classic Starts®: Don Quixote
    An abridged and illustrated chapter book retelling of Don Quixote, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies! Don Quixote is a knight-errant determined to keep the spirit of chivalry alive in 17th-century Spain. Accompanied by his sidekick, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote conjures up a love interest, meddles with other people's lives, and...
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    Boudicca's Daughter
    Boudicca’s Daughter is Elodie Harper’s masterpiece. Costanza Casati, author of Babylonia One of the best books I have ever read. Bea Fitzgerald, author of Girl, Goddess, Queen Certainly my book of the year. Caroline Lea, author of The Glass Woman One of my favourite reads of the year. Rosie Hewlett, author of Medea Beautiful, breathtaking – I loved this novel....
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  • A Sister's Dream
    The new heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, historical saga from Elizabeth Gill. After falling pregnant unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father takes the baby away from her. Fleeing her family home, Catrin reunites with her brother Roddy, a trainee doctor. Wanting to change her life for the better despite her grief, she studies to become a doctor in her...
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  • The Other Miss Bridgerton [Large Print]
    There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In the third of the Bridgerton Prequel series, we go back to where it all began… from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. She was in the wrong place... Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly,...
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  • A Fire in Their Hearts
    Locked in the hold when the crew abandons their ship, The Crown of London, Violet and Samuel cling to each other as the doomed vessel breaks up on rocks off the islands of Orkney. Their love for each other has helped them survive a conflict that has dominated their lives since childhood. They have been persecuted and punished, fought through...
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  • The Tragic Memoir of Prince Katsu Shibayama
    The Tragic Memoir of Prince Katsu Shibayama presents a prince torn between two worlds, facing a war that demands more than courage—it demands the impossible choice between duty and conscience. A prince divided by duty. A world at war. A choice that could cost him everything. Prince Katsu Shibayama has always lived between two worlds. Raised in Japan's imperial court...
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    Leonor
    Leonor: A queen's ambition. A kingdom on the edge. One woman's hunger for power will set Portugal ablaze—unless she's devoured first. Portugal, 1367. The court is a powder keg, and Leonor Teles de Meneses is the spark. Born noble, married off for duty, Leonor aches for more—freedom, passion, a place at the heart of power. Her wit is sharp, her...
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    Aftermath
    With her husband Samuel serving as an artist in The Great War, Ivy Chapman secures a position managing the Auckland Free Library. What begins as a necessity soon blossoms into something much more: a quiet awakening of her own capability, independence and allure. Ivy's sister Katherine, too, has experienced a taste of a different life in the absence of her...
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  • The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
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    The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
    Jack the Ripper. Victorian London. A beastly mystery. This novel will have you howling at the full moon. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Laini Taylor. When Caroline Foster arrives at the Whitechapel Full Moon Society in search of her missing brother, she finds a dilapidated façade belying an interior as opulent as any exclusive gentlemen's club. In...
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  • The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies
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    The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies
    He's brooding. She's brilliant. Together they're Oxford's secret weapon. Oxford, England, 1951: The Honorable Ginevra Bishop likes red lipstick, clever retorts, and earning top marks in her tutorials. She's following her mother's footsteps by studying at Oxford, eager to prove she's more than a debutante. Sidney Braithwaite likes brooding, Latin, and ignoring his nightmares. He's determined to forge a new...
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  • The High Heaven
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    The High Heaven
    In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She's taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind from falling apart as NASA rocket tests encroach on his outer...
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  • The Golden Hours
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    The Golden Hours
    The Golden Hours is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles, started by Elizabeth Jane Howard and now continued by bestselling author - and Elizabeth Jane Howard's niece - Louisa Young. It's Christmas, 1962, and the Cazalet family are gathering to celebrate. With the family's beloved Home Place long sold, Polly and Gerald have offered up their rambling...
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  • The Golden Hours
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    The Golden Hours
    The Golden Hours is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles, started by Elizabeth Jane Howard and now continued by bestselling author – and Elizabeth Jane Howard's niece – Louisa Young. It's Christmas, 1962, and the Cazalet family are gathering to celebrate. With the family's beloved Home Place long sold, Polly and Gerald have offered up their rambling...
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    The Bridge
    Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died. A new bridge, connecting the two valleys, is almost complete, which will end the valley's isolation and create an easier route to smuggle contraband deep into the mountains. Where Miquel's father...
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  • Ripeness
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    In 1960s Italy, a family secret rips a teenage girl's world apart, only for her to discover its true meaning decades later. 'Moss makes every moment count' - The Sunday Times 'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton 'Powerful and beautifully written' - The Guardian Just out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent...
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  • The Remarkable Miss Digby
    In 1853, only a lunatic would consider crossing the Syrian desert to see the Roman ruins at Palmyra. Most travellers from Europe rash enough to venture into the desert are never seen again, and a woman considering such a journey, without her husband, is preposterous. When Jane Digby, the Lady Ellenborough, granddaughter of the Earl of Leicester, informs the British...
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  • The Cinderella Service
    In the midst of World War Two, New Zealand faces a labour shortage as its men leave to serve overseas. To fill the gap, young women are called upon to work the land, becoming the nation’s ‘land girls’. Emerald (Emma) is one of those who answer the call, leaving her widowed mother and the comfort of home, to work on...
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  • Taranga
    Taranga is the mother of Maui, a great cultural hero in the Maori creation narrative. Here, Reina Kahukiwa recounts the birth of Maui seen through the eyes of Taranga.
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  • Norse Myths and Sagas
    This beautiful hardback edition brings together over 50 tales from Norse mythology, presented with silver cover embossing and gilded page edges. The myths and legends of the Norsemen have entertained both old and young alike for hundreds of years. This fascinating collection contains stories retold from the Icelandic Eddas, the principal sources of knowledge of Norse mythology, and the Sagas...
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  • Nordic Tales
    Traditional Nordic folktales come to life in this enchanting illustrated edition.
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  • Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances
    When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most...
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  • Howling in the Wilderness
    Howling in the Wilderness by Diana Harris presents the Treaty of Waitangi—dramatised and seen from a different point of view. It is 1823, and Henry and Marianne Williams are on their way to New Zealand, full of optimism in their quest to bring the Gospel of Peace to the Māori people. However, the Māori, particularly Hongi Hika, are preoccupied with...
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  • Homeland
    A father and his daughters may not be able to return home... but they can celebrate stories of their homeland! As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland—Palestine. Through their father's memories, the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of street vendors beating rhythms...
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  • Heroes of Irish Mythology
    Heroes of Irish Mythology includes some of Jeremiah Curtin's exquisite retellings of Ireland's most daring and courageous tales. Within its pages, Curtin recounts the exploits of heroes such as the skilled swordsman Elin Gow, the great yet unassuming Conal, the grimly determined Miach Lay, the extraordinarily proportioned Coldfeet, and the perspicacious Blaiman. Beyond gripping, these stories of adventure and peril...
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  • Heir to a Family Business
    In 1971, Will, reluctant heir to his parents' Banks Peninsula farm, plans to travel overseas with his girlfriend, Polly, after he finishes college. Instead, while his father is ill, Will must take over the management of the family farm. It’s not long before father and son clash. Will wants to mechanise and modernise the farm, but his old-school father opposes...
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  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
    This beautiful pocket edition brings together 45 fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, presented with stunning gilded page edges and cover embossing. Full of cunning witches, dragon hoards and dwarves spinning straw into gold, the tales of the Brothers Grimm are some of the most recognised and best-loved fairy tales of all time. Originally collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm...
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  • Egyptian Myths and Tales
    This deluxe hardback anthology brings together incredible tales from Ancient Egyptian mythology, presented in a beautiful volume with gold gilded page edges. The world of Ancient Egypt is filled with fascinating stories of an immense pantheon of gods and goddesses, with their unique personalities, jealousies, and conflicts. The names of their deities - Osiris, Horus, Anubis, Set - have echoed...
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  • The Velvet Fox
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    After rescuing Tomos from enchantment, orphan Seren Rhys is enjoying her first summer at Plas-y-Fran. But as autumn arrives, it brings a mysterious new governess intent on drawing Tomos away from Seren and his family. Dangerous figures from a toy carousel stalk the house and, fearing the worst, Seren calls on the clockwork crow to help her. But can he...
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  • Isola
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    A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK The New York Times ‘Best Books of the Year (So Far)' A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in a deeply moving novel of love, faith and survival, for readers of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist and Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See. ‘This made me cry on an airplane...
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    This gripping and emotional account of life on the front lines in World War I continues to resonate with modern readers. One of the most profound accounts of the horrors of war, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's semi-autobiographical novel that continues to touch readers more than a century after its initial publication. The story is...
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  • The Case of the Christmas Card
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    The Case of the Christmas Card is a festive murder mystery novella featuring Ali Dawson. No-one is more surprised than time-travelling detective Ali Dawson when Charles Dickens suddenly turns up on her doorstep a few days before Christmas. The Great Writer is as baffled as she is as to how he got there. Ali takes him in, despite being preoccupied...
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  • Galinda
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    GALINDA: A CHARMED CHILDHOOD is the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent and popular Good Witch. Who was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University? Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a 'ga'. The...
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  • Wild Seed
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    Wild Seed
    A stunning new edition of Book One of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race. A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant - VIOLA DAVIS Will rewire the mind of whoever reads it... you don't emerge...
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  • This Door of the Seas
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    This Door of the Seas. Darien. The singular event at the end of the 17th century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. It took place on the other side of the world. And most of us know next to nothing about it. Now it's time to remedy that. Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp unite in...
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  • The Secret Society of Librarians
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    For librarian Joyce Haddington, the pages of her favourite novels have always felt more compelling than her own life. But when war breaks out on her doorstep and a call for help rings out across the libraries of London, she knows she must act. Taking matters into her own hands, Joyce invites a young Jewish girl to stay with her...
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  • The Letter Carrier
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    What would happen if you finally met your soul mate - but they were married to someone else? THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER 'Ambition, forbidden love and great longing... A magnificent storyteller' Adriana Trigiani Salento, Italy, June 1934. A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets...
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  • Flashpoint
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    Flashpoint
    AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A QUEST FOR THE TRUTH. ONLY SHE HAS WHAT IT TAKES 1943, America: SOE's Saffron Courtney is back in New York, but even as she recovers from her mission to Washington, events on the other side of the Atlantic are making her return to England inevitable. The War Office need someone to extract an asset - a...
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  • Breakout
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    Breakout
    Eight months after helping to prevent a devastating attack on Britain's nuclear deterrent, ex-SAS hero David Hawkins is down on his luck. But when an act of reckless violence costs him his job, Hawkins is recruited by MI6 for a highly sensitive mission. The job: infiltrate a gang of cut-throat mercenaries led by a notorious former Regiment officer. Six believes...
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    The Goddess Queen
    PHARAOH OF EGYPT. WARRIOR OF ROME. THE FATE OF AN EMPIRE. There was a moment, just over two thousand years ago, when the whole Mediterranean world could have been ruled by a woman. The Roman Republic was crumbling, torn apart by rivalries. Egypt was a wellspring of wealth. But its rulers had squandered their advantage and ended up hopelessly indebted...
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  • Thirty Feet Under
    Thirty Feet Under by William Wodhams is a thrilling tale that will captivate readers who enjoy the works of Dan Brown. The narrative unfolds a gripping story of lost kings, mad emperors, international smugglers, and an FBI Art Crimes Team determined to recover the missing treasures of an ancient empire. When a museum in Italy is robbed and the guard...
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  • The Moonsingers (Deluxe Edition)
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    Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries meets The House in the Cerulean Sea in this delightful cozy fantasy debut in which one governess, her three odd, young pupils, and their village full of secret faeries must band together to stop the local railway from expanding and unwittingly destroying their magical home. In a quiet glen beyond the reach of the railway...
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  • The Duke's Engagement Game/The Countess He Can't Have
    The Duke’s Engagement Game - Christine Merrill The clock’s ticking... on their risky charade! Louisa must convince her grandfather she’s going to wed if she’s to receive her inheritance and escape his tyranny! But the wallflower is a disaster debutante, and she’s given up hope of finding a suitor. Until her brother’s best friend, Thomas, Duke of Bonham, agrees to...
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  • The Daffodil Days
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    In the early 1960s, in a small town near Dartmoor, the church bells ring. The people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another’s lives. There’s the local GP, who knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. There’s the young shop assistant at Kestrels, who understands that the ladies who come there for...
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  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice
    In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes— and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century...
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  • Quills: Pretend Betrothal/His Three-Day Duchess/Game Of Courtship With The Earl
    His Three-Day Duchess - Laurie Benson He’s claimed his title. Could he inherit a bride too? The Duchess of Skeffington retreats to the estate that was her refuge during her cruel marriage. She’s shocked to come face-to-face with the distant heir, now newly inherited duke, adventurous Simon Alexander. When Elizabeth is robbed, it’s up to them both to find the...
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  • On the Attack
    Ryan Kaine is on the attack... When Angela Shafer's stalker threatens to kill her, she is forced to call upon the services of The 83 Trust. Ryan Kaine vows to deliver justice in the only way he knows how. After reaching Angela's home too late to prevent a terrible atrocity, Kaine calls in reinforcements in the form of his most...
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  • Meet Me at the Surface
    A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I've read in years - S. J. WATSON A strange and beautiful novel - OBSERVER A wild and darkly exuberant ride of a novel - JEFF VANDERMEER Everything that comes from the ground must go back...
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  • Leaving Everything Most Loved
    The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when...
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  • Ken Follett: The Kingsbridge 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle
    Immerse yourself in the world of Kingsbridge... Step into Ken Follett's Kingsbridge, the bustling medieval town first brought to life in the bestselling Pillars of the Earth. Piece together the grand Gothic cathedral, lively marketplace, and sprawling landscape in this detailed 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. To me, Kingsbridge has come to stand for Britain as a whole, a way to tell...
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  • If Blood Should Stain the Wattle
    It’s 1972, and across Australia the catchcry is ‘It’s time’. Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labour government. In Gibber's Creek, it's time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labour member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. And for Scarlett O'Hara, it's time to dream that...
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  • Fake Courtship With The Earl/From Rogue To Viscount
    Fake Courtship With The Earl - Lucy Ashford Her enemy next door... the dashing and eligible earl! Inheriting a cottage near Brighton means penniless spinster Miss Kate Summerby can finally escape her patronising sister’s household. Her new home is idyllic, save for the raucous all-night parties hosted by her new neighbour, Daniel, the Earl of Rivington! As hostility builds, Kate...
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Historical Fiction

Welcome to our Historical Fiction section, where the past comes alive through captivating stories. If you love novels that transport you to different times and places, filled with rich detail and unforgettable characters, this is the perfect place to start your next reading adventure.

In this collection, you'll find tales set against the backdrop of significant historical events, from ancient civilizations to the 20th century. Explore stories that illuminate different cultures, highlight pivotal moments in history, and delve into the lives of both real and imagined figures who shaped the world.

Whether you’re drawn to epic sagas, intimate personal dramas, or adventures that blend fact with fiction, our Historical Fiction section offers a diverse range of books to satisfy your curiosity and passion for the past. Step back in time and discover stories that resonate across the ages.