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Historical Fiction Books
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The Silent Companions Laura Purcell Set in three time scales this is truly terrific stuff, a lovely, chilling, Gothic tale. In 1635 the “Silent Companions” are purchased. In 1865 they, and a journal, are discovered in a locked room. Some years later a damaged mute... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017 
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The Spy Paulo Coelho October 2017 Book of the Month A short, emotional and entirely captivating novel based on the real events that surrounded, enclosed and smothered the notorious Mata Hari. Mata Hari is a name that still evokes and conjures vivid images,... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa October 2017 Debut of the Month This ambitious and powerfully moving debut tells the true story of one of the lesser-known tragedies of WWII, when Jewish passengers aboard a transatlantic liner expecting to be given refuge in Cuba were refused... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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False Lights K. J. Whittaker October 2017 Debut of the Month An adult novel from the YA author Katy Moran, False Lights is a wonderfully rich and complex work of speculative fiction. Napoleon won at Waterloo and went on to conquer England where now the... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan Where Jennifer Egan's previous book A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD was all brevity and ellipses in the way the varied short stories moved between genres and came together to form a whole, her much-awaited new opus is what one... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2017
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The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. The god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Arrowood Laura McHugh London 1895, gloriously brought to life in all its grizzly glory. Arrowood is a weathered Private Investigator with a soft heart and a weakness for a drink. He shares the same skies as the famous, revered detective, Sherlock Holmes and... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/07/2017
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The Stolen Bicycle Ming-Yi Wu A beautifully written, rather special novel, detailing the highly personal journey of a family through turbulent times in Taiwan’s history. A stolen bicycle sits centre stage in this story, in fact the bicycles of Taiwan are hugely important, which sounds... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2017
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Fools and Mortals Bernard Cornwell The title of course refers to Puck’s line in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Lo what fools these mortals be!”. It is a new period for Cornwell who is most famous for his Regency “Sharpe” series and more recently for the... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2017
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Mrs Osmond John Banville The Booker Prizewinning author of The Sea offers up another intelligent, beautifully written novel this time with a Victorian setting. The story flows along elegantly with each chapter a vignette. Nothing is over-explained, the descriptions are evocative and the thoughts... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017
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The English Patient Michael Ondaatje February 2011 Guest Editor Carmen Reid on Michael Ondaatje... The English Patient is a dream of a romantic novel. It follows two love stories, one between a soldier and a nurse which unfolds as the book progresses and the... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The Dancing Barber AC Michael Set in 1963, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the Ukraine, this initially appears to be a story about everyday life for a family who have not had an everyday existence. The author states that the background to this tale is... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/09/2016
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The Tiger's Prey Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper The fifteenth Courtney saga follows the brothers Tom and Guy and half brother Francis. It’s the sequel to Monsoon (1999) and Birds of Prey (1997) and gives us a fair bit of Cornish background and how the family came to... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Birdcage Walk Helen Dunmore A breathtaking, evocative, and stormy tale set in the early 1790’s, just as the fallout from the French Revolution was spilling over into life in Britain. Lizzie Fawkes, daughter of a radical thinker and writer, has settled in Bristol and... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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Munich Robert Harris Munich follows the fortunes of two men who were friends at Oxford together in the 1920s. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister,... Format: Hardback - Released: 21/09/2017
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