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The Clerkenwell tales

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $11.00

Publisher: London, Vintage: 2004

Seller ID: 11050663

ISBN: 0749386304

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

212 pages. Reading creases to spine. Minor spine lean. The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side of the River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless, disenchanted with the church and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or ...
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The Kitchen Boy : A Novel of the Last Tsar

By: Alexander, Robert

Price: $13.00

Publisher: USA, Penguin: 2004

Seller ID: 16080174

ISBN: 0142003816

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

229 pages. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Edges of pages are lightly browned. The haunting bestseller about the mysterious last days of the Romanovs as seen through the eyes of a young family servant. Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0142003816. ISBN/EAN: 9780142003817. Inventory No: 16080174. Paperback
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Portrait in Sepia

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Flamingo: 2003

Seller ID: 09022290

ISBN: 0007123019

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle, suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of...
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Daughter of Fortune

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Flamingo: 2000

Seller ID: 07030929

ISBN: 0006552323

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with this magnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allende's best novel since The House of the Spirits. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, and the p...
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Portrait in Sepia

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London, Flamingo / Harper Collins: 2001

Seller ID: 09114000

ISBN: 0007121571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

This is the first UK edition. Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle, suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations ...
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The Proud Villeins - Bridges Over Time Series #1

By: Anand, V.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: UK, Headline: 1990

Seller ID: 09010241

ISBN: 0747202451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good (ex-library)

This is the first UK edition. Clear plastic protective cover over dustjacket. Usual library markings internally, minor spine lean. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0747202451. ISBN/EAN: 9780747202455. Inventory No: 09010241. Hardcover
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The Honourable Thief

By: Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Pan Macmillan: 2018

Seller ID: 20050252

ISBN: 1760552623

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

440 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. 'Pure escapism in the mould of Dan Brown or Indiana Jones...vivid evocations of place' Saturday Age 'Achilles? Because...?' 'Obsession of mine. Half man, half god - and his own worst enemy. My kind of man.' He laughed. Istanbul, Turkey 1955 Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited - but still rather charming - shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adventure, his determination to prove ...
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Isle of Woman - Geodessey Series #1

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $9.00

Publisher: USA, Tor Books: 1994

Seller ID: 20120294

ISBN: 0812550919

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

470 pages. Top corner of back cover is clipped. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has minimal reading creases and mild fading. Pages are reasonably tanned. A magnificent saga of passion, heroism, and survival, Piers Anthony's Isle of Woman is a tale like no other ever written. It is nothing less than the story of humanity itself, from its savage origins to its troubled future, told through the lives on one family reborn throughout history. At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of...
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Shame of Man - Geodessey Series #2

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $13.00

Publisher: USA, Tom Doherty Associates: 1995

Seller ID: 20120444

ISBN: 0812550919

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

503 pages. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has slight fading. Pages are lightly tanned. A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history--Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a beautiful dancer--as they struggle to preserve their family and their way of life during some of the most turbulent periods of our savage past--and our troubled future. Through their eyes we experience humanity's greatest ac...
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A Dark Moon Raging

By: Armitage, Aileen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: UK, The Sheridan Book Company: 1995

Seller ID: 11040791

ISBN: 1855017253

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

254 pages. Minor edgewear to covers. Lightly tanned pages. Two lonely children, neglected in their Victorian nursery form a tragic bond on the wild Yorkshire moors. While the dramas of life, death and madness swirl around their family, like smoke from the mill chimneys nearby, Constance and William cling together and swear a pact in blood that they will forever share their hopes and fears and sins. Then their little half-brother is mysteriously killed and a shadow of guilt falls over their family. The two remain silent about the tragedy throughout the years - until Constance finally decides to...
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Samraj

By: Aron, Elaine N.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: UK, New English Library: 1989

Seller ID: 08100447

ISBN: 045050896X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Creasing to covers. Multiple copies of this title available. A story of a man and a woman chosen to save their land from destruction, "Samraj" is a tapestry peopled with princes and princesses, warriors and kings of long ago, recreating the story told in India's Mahabharata, and thus grounded in historical truth. The book is the first of three volumes. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 045050896X. ISBN/EAN: 9780450508967. Inventory No: 08100447. Paperback
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The Bee and the Orange Tree

By: Ashley, Melissa

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Australia, Affirm Press: 2019

Seller ID: 21010225

ISBN: 192571201X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

369 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: 'fairy tales'.When Marie Catherine's daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris for the first time, she is swept up in the glamour and s...
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The World's Greatest Master and Commander Stories

By: Ashley, Mike

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Magpie Books: 2005

Seller ID: 07090004

ISBN: 1845291778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The courage of sailors in the days of tall ships and cannon fire has become legend. In this book Mike Ashley brings together some of the greatest writers, both classic and modern, of tales of nautical adventure. Storms and shipwrecks, the great sea battles of the Napoleonic era and the sheer, dangerous excitement of life before the mast come to life in these vivid accounts. Packed with drama and heroism, this is the perfect collection for all who love tales of seamanship and derring-do. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 1845291778. ISBN/EAN: 9781845291778. Inventory N...
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Destiny Our Choice

By: Attenborough, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: UK, Hodder and Stoughton: 1988

Seller ID: 19060011

ISBN: 0340426497

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

317 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0340426497. ISBN/EAN: 9780340426494. Inventory No: 19060011. Paperback
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The Plains of Passage - Earth's Children Series #4

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: UK, Hodder and Stoughton: 1990

Seller ID: 19070131

ISBN: 034053527X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This is the first UK edition. 724 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are lightly tanned. Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most ...
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The Sea of the Dragon

By: Aundrews, R. T.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: UK, Hamlyn: 1980

Seller ID: 15050290

ISBN: 060020006X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

240 pages. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 060020006X. ISBN/EAN: 9780600200062. Inventory No: 15050290. Paperback
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Ty-Shan Bay

By: Aundrews, R. T.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: UK, Hamlyn: 1979

Seller ID: 15050320

ISBN: 0600387860

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

239 pages. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases and slight fading. Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0600387860. ISBN/EAN: 9780600387862. Inventory No: 15050320. Paperback
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The Secret Purposes

By: Baddiel, David

Price: $18.00

Publisher: UK, Little, Brown: 2004

Seller ID: 07110489

ISBN: 0316725765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

408 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are lightly tanned. The subject is a hidden part of British history, treated with gravity: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man in the 1940s. June Murray is a translator who doesn't share the unsympathetic incomprehension of her colleagues at the Ministry of Information, and travels to the Isle of Man in order to interview the Jews interned there. June hopes to expose the true horror of what the Nazis are doing, but her best efforts ...
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According to Queeney

By: Bainbridge, Beryl

Price: $11.00

Publisher: London, Little, Brown: 2001

Seller ID: 16080166

ISBN: 0316859036

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

242 pages. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. Pages are reasonably tanned. Dr Johnson, having completed his life's major work (the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life, torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend. Her daughter, Queeney, narrates. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0316859036. ISBN/EAN: 9780316859035. Inventory No: 16080166. Paperback
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Every Man for Himself

By: Bainbridge, Beryl

Price: $9.00

Publisher: UK, Abacus: 1997

Seller ID: 16080178

ISBN: 0349108706

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

214 pages. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are reasonably tanned. For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Histori...
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Category: Historical