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The Land Girl: An unforgettable his...

Allie Burns

The Land Girl: An unforgettable historical novel of love and hope

War changes everything…Emily has always lived a life of privilege. That is until the drums of World War One came beating. Her family may be dramatically affected but it also offers her the freedom that she craves. Away from the tight control of her mother she grabs every opportunity that the war is giving to women like her, including love.Working as a land girl Emily finds a new lease of life but when the war is over, and life returns to normal, she has to learn what to give up and what she must...

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Allie Burns

The Awful End of Prince William the...

Lisa Jardine

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

This edition contains a limited number of illustrations.Please note that due to the level of detail, both the map and family tree are best viewed on a tablet.A brilliantly detailed and gripping account of the assassination in 1584 of Prince William of Orange, and the shockwaves it sent through an age.The illustrious ‘Making History Series’, edited by Lisa Jardine and Amanda Foreman, explores an eclectic mix of history's tipping points. In ‘The Awful End of Prince William the Silent’, series...

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Lisa Jardine

Rooiborslaksman

Marinda van Zyl

Rooiborslaksman

In Rooiborslaksman word die negentiende-eeuse konflik tussen die Namas, die Herero’s en die Duitsers in die Suidwes-Afrika vervleg met die lewensverhale van Liesbet Lambert wat wees gelaat word tydens die pokke-epidemie en Frederik Vlermuis vir wie Gobabis se kerktoring soos die kameeldoringboom lyk waaraan die rooiborslaksman sy prooi ryg.

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Marinda van Zyl

The Korean War: History in an Hour

Andrew Mulholland

The Korean War: History in an Hour

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies as General MacArthur’s American military forces occupied the southern half and Stalin’s Soviet forced...

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Andrew Mulholland

The Lights of Alborada

Gianni Riotta

The Lights of Alborada

A rousing historical adventure from the bestselling author of ‘Prince of the Clouds’.As a boy, Nino Manes used to dash through the morning streets of his island fishing village to reach the church square before the first explosion of the Alborada, the fireworks that rang out over the bay to announce the dawning of a feast day.Now, years later as an Italian prisoner of war in a Texan camp at the end of World War II, Nino receives a letter from his love Zita, and finds himself facing a race...

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Gianni Riotta

The Dressmaker’s Daughter

Nancy Carson

The Dressmaker’s Daughter

Prepare to be swept away by this enthralling story of love, war and one woman who survived them both…Lizzie Bishop’s humble beginnings as a dressmaker’s daughter see her hope for nothing more than a simple offer of marriage. Love, passion and romance are reserved for daydreams.But then into Lizzie’s quiet world comes two men – one reliable and kind-hearted, the other heartbreakingly handsome. Just as Lizzie’s made her choice, the ominous call of war sounds, and her life changes again.Will Lizzie...

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Nancy Carson

The Scottish Lord’s Secret Bride

Raven McAllan

The Scottish Lord’s Secret Bride

The next exquisite Regency romance from Raven McAllan, The Scottish Lord’s Secret Bride will whisk you off your feet and sweep you into an opulent world of scandal, secrets and desire!Secrets never stay buried for long…Reluctant heiress Lady Morven Weston is tired of her mother interfering in her love affairs. At twenty-six there’s only so many more society balls she can attend before resigning herself to life as an unmarried maid.But when Lord Fraser Napier, the man Morven ran wild with one...

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Raven McAllan

Panzer Tactics

Wolfgang Schneider

Panzer Tactics

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Wolfgang Schneider

Wallis

Anne Edwards

Wallis

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Anne Edwards

The Hidden Hindenburg

Michael McCarthy

The Hidden Hindenburg

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Michael McCarthy

Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-...

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Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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DROGA DO DAMASZKU

T. Davis Bunn

DROGA DO DAMASZKU

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T. Davis Bunn

The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portrai...

James Naughtie

The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of our Age

The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK’s leading commentators on social and political life – Jim Naughtie.The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and genius in the British Isles over the past sixty years. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 has looked back over the span of Queen Elizabeth II reign thus far in order to identify and profile the people who have helped to define the era and whose...

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James Naughtie

The Roman Republic

Michael Crawford

The Roman Republic

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.The loyalty of these marauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their leaders was assured by a share in the rewards of victory, rewards which became steadily less accessible as the empire expanded – promoting a decline in loyalty of cataclysmic...

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Michael Crawford

The Ipcress File

Len Deighton

The Ipcress File

Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton’s first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing.For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy.The film of The...

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Len Deighton

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagi...

Ophelia Field

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation

The fascinating history of the male-only members of the Kit-Cat Club, the unofficial centre of Whig power in 17th century Britain, and home to the greatest political and artistic thinkers of a generation.The Kit-Cat Club was founded in the late 1690s when London bookseller Jacob Tonson forged a partnership with pie-maker Christopher (Kit) Cat. What began as an eccentric publishing rights deal – Tonson paying to feed talented young writers and receiving first option on their works – developed...

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Ophelia Field

American Stories

Paul Aron

American Stories

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Paul Aron

Death in the Highlands

J. Keith Saliba

Death in the Highlands

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J. Keith Saliba

The Papers of Martin Luther King, J...

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Blackshirts and Reds

Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds

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Michael Parenti

Tennyson’s Gift

Lynne Truss

Tennyson’s Gift

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts, are thrown into the company of the...

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Lynne Truss

William Shakespeare: History in an...

Sinead Fitzgibbon

William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language in English. His poetry and plays have endured for almost 450 years, such is their universal appeal and understanding of the human condition. And yet Shakespeare wrote almost...

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Sinead Fitzgibbon

The Street

Kay Brellend

The Street

‘Campbell Road was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves, prostitutes, fraudsters – every sort of rogue and vagabond drifted through this slum.’Life was tough … but so were theyAlice Keiver is a sensitive girl, growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London. As the daughter of an alcoholic mother, and niece of an abusive uncle, she dreams that one day she and her baby sister will escape their rotten surroundings.Alice’s father, Jack Keiver, works day and night to provide for his...

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Kay Brellend

The Queen of Subtleties

Suzannah Dunn

The Queen of Subtleties

A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.Everyone knows the story of Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII divorced his longstanding, long-suffering, older, Spanish wife for a young, black-eyed English beauty, and, in doing so, severed England from Rome and indeed from the rest of the western world. Then, when Henry...

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Suzannah Dunn

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