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The Taming of the Queen
Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, h...
View full detailsJacky Daydream
Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood and teenage years in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, family life and mu...
View full detailsThe Very Bloody History of Britain (Without the Boring Bits!)
Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted a...
View full detailsThe Gorgeous Georgians
In a world where the boys wore make-up and highwaymen ruled the roads, Terry Deary has uncovered some of the horrible truths about the Gorgeous Geo...
View full detailsThe Boleyn Inheritance
The Other Boleyn Girl (2002) returns to the executed queen's doomed family in a historical novel that maps the sad demise of Henry VIII in a series...
View full detailsHorrible Histories: Groovy Greeks
Apparently the ancient Greeks were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn't start school until they were seven, and girls didn't have to go at all. B...
View full detailsHorrible Histories: Even More Terrible Tudors
Takes you back for another look at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who just could not help losing their heads. Read on for inf...
View full detailsDaughters of Castle Deverill
It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Dev...
View full detailsThe Shelters of Stone
Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France....
View full detailsWhen Christmas Bells Ring
The new Christmas bestseller from Katie Flynn; the UK's bestselling saga author Liverpool 1938 It’s Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosh...
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The no.1 Sunday Times bestseller by award winner Kate Atkinson. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world...
View full detailsBlitzcat
In war-torn England during Hitler's Blitzkrieg, a courageous black cat named Lord Gort sets off to find her way home and find her lost master.
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
Mystery and adventure for four young detectives in Ancient Roman times . . . Flavia is suspicious of the new woman in her father's life, Cartilia ...
View full detailsThe Slimy Stuarts
This history book describes the more gruesome side of the Stuart period. It tells why some Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked h...
View full detailsEvie's War
The first in a trilogy of World War Two sagas featuring Evie, a new teacher in a Devon primary school, and introducing a supporting cast of charact...
View full detailsCharlotte Gray
IN 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission:to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special...
View full detailsThe Kommandant's Girl
September 1939. Overnight, Jewish nineteen-year-old Emma Bau's world is turned upside down when Germany invades Poland. And after only six weeks of...
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Post Captain, the second in Patrick O'Brian's much loved Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, begins with Jack Aubrey returning to an England at peace ...
View full detailsThe Berlin Girl
The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife. Berlin...
View full detailsWar Horse
In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Weste...
View full detailsSmall Gains
A tragic saga set at the turn of the 18th century; a poverty-stricken family struggles to survive against unimaginable odds. Set just after the Nap...
View full detailsSing As We Go
Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasion...
View full detailsThe Children of Lovely Lane
The second book in the Lovely Lane series from Nadine Dorries. Lily hates the sound of children playing - the ceaseless shouting and laughter and k...
View full detailsLONG AND LONELY ROAD, A
Liverpool, Christmas 1938. Rose McAllister is waiting for her husband, Steve, to come home. He is a seaman, often drunk and violent, but Rose does ...
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