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'A great adventure, powerfully told' (Philippa Gregory) A sumptuous tale of passion and danger in the medieval court, Anya Seton's Katherine is an all-time classic.Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen. The naïve convent-educated orphan of a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-03-06
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In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and...
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Riverrun
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2014-03-06
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Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child's mother, it is wrong... Roberta likes to collect the letters and postcards she finds in second-hand books. When her father gives her some of her grandmother's belongings, she...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-02-27
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'A master of the genre' The TimesThe seventh novel in Anthony Riches' acclaimed Empire sequence brings Marcus Aquila back to Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family. But the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly.The young centurion's urge to...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-02-13
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Empire series
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Eighteen classic sea-faring tales by the best-loved writers of the genre, including Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Richard Woodman, Herman Melville and Frederick Marryat. Featuring favourite heroes such as Captain Jack Aubrey, Adam Hardy, Horatio Hornblower and...
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Robinson
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2014-02-11
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Mammoth Books
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'A potent, moving story of mother and sisterhood' Sainsbury's Magazine'A tale of sisterhood, lies and illegitimate babies' Good HousekeepingThe new novel from the author of 22 Britannia Road, Amanda Hodgkinson.1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an...
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Penguin
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2014-02-06
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Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope.For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet....
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Penguin
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2014-02-06
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Martin Watts, a bookseller, is captured by Royalists. Jane Afton's brother Nat is taken too. They suffer inhumane treatment as prisoners-of-war. In Oxford Castle jailor William Smith tortures, beats, starves and deprives his helpless victims. Can Jane rescue her sick...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-02-03
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Louise Endor is just seventeen when she discovers she is pregnant. The father, a married man with two other children, has no intention of leaving his wife, butLouise is determined to keep her son Paul, and to work towards a better life for him. Disowned by her father,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-01-30
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*NEW YORK TIMES, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE**NOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY PRIZE*Randy Boyagoda's Beggar's Feast is a tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate. 'Gleaming . . . An ambitious book that seeks to convey the sweep...
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Penguin
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2014-01-30
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'FABULOUS' The Times'FASCINATING' New York TimesTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and nanny in tow. Not...
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John Murray
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2014-01-16
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With Blood And Iron is an enthralling tale from the master storyteller of the sea, including the hugely popular Bolitho novels which are written under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.January 1944. On the vast grey waters of the Atlantic the balance of power has shifted....
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-01-16
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A novel from the bestselling master storyteller of the sea, Douglas Reeman; he has also written over twenty bestselling novels featuring Richard Bolitho, under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-01-16
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The Iron Pirate from the master storyteller of the sea, including the hugely popular Bolito novels, written under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.Surprise will be total. It will show the world what we can do. You will do it for Germany!'The crack German heavy cruiser Prinz...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-01-16
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A brutal murderMurmurs of magicVengeance deniedIt is 409 AD in Britain and the Roman legions are gone. Britain is abandoned and the fledgling colony of Camelot needs a new leader. Two young men, related by blood, step forward prepared to share that responsibility: Caius...
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Sphere
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2014-01-09
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A matchless warriorA true friend lostA love like none beforeThe son of a Celtic King and a Romano-British aristocrat, Uther Pendragon learns early to respect honour, nobility and integrity, but he also learns to love to fight, and to kill when necessary. His closest...
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Sphere
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2014-01-09
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AD 1081: Vast empires struggle for dominance.From the Normans in the north to the Byzantines in the south, battles rage across Europe and around its fringes. But in the east, an empire still mightier stirs, wielding a weapon to rule the world: gunpowder.Seeking the...
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Sphere
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2014-01-02
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The heroic story of Arimnestos of Plataea continues - a thrilling historical adventure set amid the epic struggle between Greece and Persia - perfect for fans of the blockbusting film 300.Slave, pirate, husband and lover: Arimnestos of Plataea has been many things in...
Editeur :
Orion
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2014-01-02
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The Long War
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1487: Wars of the Roses are over, but for one man the battle burns onThe battle of Stoke Field is won. With the help of his spy and Richard III's one-time right-hand man Henry Morane, King Henry VII has quashed the rebels and now turns to the defence of the realm as...
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Sphere
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2014-01-02
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Wars of the Roses
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1485: Richard III lies dead, and the Wars of the Roses are reaching a murderous endThe Battle of Bosworth Field is over, and Richard III's right-hand man, Henry Morane, faces hanging at the hands of the traitor Sir William Stanley. Eyes closed, awaiting an arrow through...
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Sphere
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2014-01-02
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Wars of the Roses
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