Historical fiction

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All The Light We Cannot See
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WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION

A beautiful, stunningly...
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Voyager
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Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time, pregnant with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battl...
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Miniaturist
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The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by storm.
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Life After Life
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What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. Du...
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Silmarillion
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The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing so...
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The blue bedroom
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This collection of short stories from the author of The Shellseekers illustrates Rosamunde Pilcher’s storytelling skills at their best.
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1Q84 Books 1 & 2
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When books one and two of Murakami’s masterpiece, ‘1Q84’, were published in Japan, they sold out in one day, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. ...
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1Q84 Books 1 2 & 3
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Tokyo, 1984: a young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a para...
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My Policeman
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This novel is inspired by the life of E.M. Forster and his relationship with his long-term companion Bob Buckingham and his wife – but transposed to late 1950s Brighton. The book tells a trag...
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1Q84 Book 3
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This work transfixes readers by telling the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. As ‘1Q84’ accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by p...
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The Thread
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Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. 5 years later, Katerina Sarafoglou’s ho...
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Sharpes Sword
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*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*
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Hannibal Enemy Of Rome
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The Romans have defeated and humiliated Carthage, their rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maels...
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Sisters Brothers
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt’s dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
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Rules Of Civility
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In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn’t afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew. By the end of the year sheR...
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Betrayal
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A gripping and moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, ‘The Betrayal’ shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of violence and terror.
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Siege
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Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to se...
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Hothouse flower
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Wharton Park estate is undergoing renovation under Kit Crawford, and when an old diary is found, Julia Forrester, together with the charismatic Kit, seek out her grandmother to learn the truth behi...
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Brooklyn
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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family t...
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Pompeii
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Harris recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, he offers an entirely original perspe...
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Archangel
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Whilst attending a conference on newly-opened Soviet archives, Fluke Kelso is approached by an old NKVD officer who knows where Beria hid Stalin’s private papers. What begins as an academic c...
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Imperium
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Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dra...
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Ross Poldark Novel Of Cornwall 1783-87
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The first book in the legendary Poldark series introduces Ross Poldark as he returns home to Cornwall and faces the changes that have taken place in his absence.
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Bella Poldark Novel Of Cornwall 1818-20
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The legendary Poldark saga concludes in the twelfth and final instalment of the much-loved series.
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On Chesil Beach
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It is July 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to s...
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