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Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own...
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Penguin
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2003-04-24
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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE AND A SPELL OF WINTER Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's...
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Penguin
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2002-05-30
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This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by...
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Penguin
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2001-03-01
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Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-02
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A captivating saga for fans of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson.Carys Beddows cannot understand why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part: Maria believes that young Ryder Tempal would be hers with her pretty daughter out of the way and throws...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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1998-06-04
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As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-03-05
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'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When "Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in...
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Penguin
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1980-09-25
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Born in Newgate Prison, the notorious Moll Flanders is destined for a life of turmoil and scandal. Determined to survive and prosper by any means necessary in the cutthroat society of 17th-century England, she navigates a world where a woman has few options and even...
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Cactus
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2026-01-22
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Romance and terror in a barbaric age. Michael of Finlandia an orphan bastard pursues a better social position with help of friendly people and crosses the continent of Europe to seek his fortune.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-01-06
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By a stroke of luck, eighteen-year-old Louise Tanquist has fallen into a new job as a photographer’s assistant. But it’s 1917 and the United States is in the verge of entering World War 1. Suddenly, Tacoma, Washington where she lives is being overrun with army recruits...
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Books We Love Ltd.
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2026-01-01
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1402:After leaving war-torn Wales, Sir Harry Percy, Hotspur, faces fresh threats at home. King Henry IV again fails to fund defense needs and the Scots invade. Nonetheless, at Homildon Hill, Harry triumphs and the Scots lose nearly all their army to death or capture,...
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Books We Love Ltd.
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2025-12-01
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Only a few wanderers like Louis Juchereau de St. Denis had ever ridden the red earth from the San Pedro to the Red River. This Chevalier de St. Denis is portrayed in Wellman’s new novel not so much as a soldier of fortune but rather as fortune’s fool. Ten years in the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-11-01
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In questo romanzo di introspezione e passione, Antonio Fogazzaro dipinge un ritratto indimenticabile di un'anima divisa tra il dovere e il sentimento. Daniele Cortis, giovane deputato di austera integrità e fervidi ideali politici, vede il suo mondo ordinato e rigoroso...
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Cactus
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2025-10-27
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In un'Italia divisa tra la fede della tradizione e i venti tumultuosi del Modernismo, si consuma l'ultima, intensa battaglia spirituale di Antonio Fogazzaro.
Nelle serene campagne venete, attorno alla figura del nobile e mistico don Aurelio, si dipana una storia di...
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Cactus
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2025-10-27
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Abe Skinner, a seasoned sea captain haunted by grief and responsibility, leads the schooner Hesperia from Newfoundland across the treacherous winter seas of 1916. Driven by desperation to provide coal for his Newfoundland hometown, Skinner and his crew face the...
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Flanker Press
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2025-10-03
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When Emily leaves her restrictive home in Canada to study art in London, England, she longs to prove herself as an artist, trying to carve a path for herself towards financial security. But her dreams don’t receive a warm welcome, as her disapproving English relatives...
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Inanna Publications
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2025-09-30
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When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman.
Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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