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Historical & Mythological Fiction

  • The Plague Charmer: A gripping story of dark motives, love and survival in times of plague

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    1361. An unlucky thirteen years after the Black Death, plague returns to England.'Fear and hysteria are portrayed with claustrophobic skill' THE T...

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  • The Poison Bed: 'Gone Girl meets The Miniaturist'

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    'A gripping psychological thriller. Readers will be awake deep into the night, trying to untangle the truth' - The Times 'Books of the Year' 'The M...

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    The Pull of the Stars (Paperback)

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    The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged ...

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  • The Queen of the Night

    Alexander Chee
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    Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author o...

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  • The Quest (Paperback)

    Wilbur Smith
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    She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. ...

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  • The Reluctant Contact

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    The Svalbard archipelago, 1977, Norwegian territory, yet closer to the north pole. Russian engineer Yuri arrives on the last boat to the Soviet min...

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  • The Revolution of Marina M.

    Janet Fitch
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    St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life,...

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  • The Sealwoman's Gift

    Sally Magnusson
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    'REMARKABLE' Sarah Perry | 'EXTRAORDINARILY IMMERSIVE' Guardian | 'EPIC' Zoe Ball Book Club | 'A REALLY, REALLY GOOD READ' BBC R2 Book Club' | 'LYR...

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    The Secret Guests

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    For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World WarIt is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on...

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    The Secrets We Kept: The sensational Cold War spy thriller

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    No one looks twice at the women in the typing pool. No one knows that two of them are trading secrets. The secret is a book, the size of the one ...

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  • The Seventh Scroll (Paperback)

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    She glanced down at the drawer in which she kept all her floppy disks. That and all the other drawers had been pulled out and thrown on the floor. ...

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  • The Silence of the Girls (Paperback)

    Pat Barker
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    A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, ...

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  • The Sin Eater

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    An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the ...

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  • The Sisters Brothers: Film Tie-in edition

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    Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, sho...

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    The Social Graces

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  • The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel

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    "Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautif...

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  • The Sound of the Hours

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    'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought ...

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  • The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures: a world of spycraft, betrayals and surprising fates

    Jennifer Hofmann
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    Darkly comic and hauntingly surreal The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures examines obsession, paranoia and the dwindling career of a Sta...

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  • The Survivors

    Kate Furnivall
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    *** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A thrilling rollercoaster of a read' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Sapphire Widow Discover a brilliant sto...

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  • The Sworn Virgin: A Novel

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    Dukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize con...

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  • The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (Paperback)

    Heather Morris
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    The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their...

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  • The Tenth Muse

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    'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real paren...

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  • The Turn of Midnight: A deadly plague is spreading across the land...

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    A deadly plague is spreading across the land...__________________As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course acro...

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  • The Tutor

    Andrea Chapin
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    The Tutor is a sumptuous debut from Andrea Chapin set against the historical intrigue of Shakespearean England.'Since meeting you, dear lady, I hav...

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  • The Visitors

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    Imagine if you couldn't seecouldn't hearcouldn't speak...Then one day somebody took your hand and opened up the world to you.Adeliza Golding is a d...

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  • The Visitors

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    It's Death on the Nile meets Downton Abbey, as the action moves between Highclere Castle and Egypt's Valley of the Kings . . . A gripping story tou...

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  • The Violets of March

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    The island has a way of calling you home... Ten years ago, Emily Watson was on top of the world: a best-selling novel, a husband plucked from the p...

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  • The White Castle

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    From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating wo...

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    The White Princess

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    The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodvill...

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  • The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery

    Laura Carlin
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    The Wicked Cometh will take readers on a heart-racing journey through backstreets swathed with fog to richly curtained, brightly lit country houses...

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  • The Witches of St. Petersburg

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    'Sumptuous, sexy and haunting. I adored this novel' SANTA MONTEFIORE. Starving men and women stalk the streets of St. Petersburg. Revolution is bre...

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  • The Woman in the Wood: A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From The Sunday Times bestselling author

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    Discover the addictive and gripping novel from the bestselling author of You'll Never See Me Again, Lesley Pearse 'A gripping novel' HELLO! Maga...

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    The Wonder (Paperback)

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    An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journal...

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    The Yellow Bird Sings (Paperback)

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    Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old dau...

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  • This Lovely City

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    *As seen on the new BBC TWO TV book club, Between the Covers* Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award ...

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  • THIS LOVELY CITY PB

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    *As seen on the new BBC TWO TV book club, Between the Covers* Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award ...

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