The Burning Land (The Last Kingdom #5) by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex ...Show more
Flash For Freedom by George MacDonald Fraser
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Category: Historical | Series: Flashman Ser.
When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowar ...Show more
Flashman's Lady (The Flashman Papers #3) by George MacDonald Fraser
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Category: Historical | Series: The Flashman papers
A game of cricket lands Flashman in thrall to a mad barbarian queen in Madagascar in Volume VI of the Flashman Papers. Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown of Rugby, to join in a friendly cricket match, little suspecting that he is letting himself in for the most desperate game ...Show more
Rebellion by Livi Michael
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Category: Historical
"Has the colour and power of the best of the chronicles she uses." (Sunday Times on Succession). Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who will stop at nothing to place their sons on the English throne. In exile in France with her young son Prince Edward, Margaret of Anjou at last gives up ...Show more
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
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Category: Historical
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam âe" a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophiaâe(tm)s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the ...Show more
The Last Roman: Honour by Jack Ludlow
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Category: Historical | Series: The Last Roman Trilogy
Sixth century Constantinople. Flavius Belisarius is barely eighteen and is already commander of the cavalry patrolling the Persian frontier. A brilliant soldier but a poor schemer - Flavius needs to be both in order to survive the febrile politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. When his friend, Petrus Sab ...Show more
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
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Category: Historical
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vi ...Show more
Heart and Home by Lyn Andrews
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Category: Historical
HEART AND HOME is a poignant saga of shop girls in 1930s Liverpool from Lyn Andrews, the Sunday Times bestselling author of FROM LIVERPOOL WITH LOVE and THE HOUSE ON LONELY STREET. Not to be missed by readers of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn. Cathie Kinrade is all too used to hardship. Growing up on the ...Show more
Kingmaker's Daughter (#4 Cousins War) by Philippa Gregory
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Category: Historical | Series: Cousins' War Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author -- At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, the Earl of Warwick's daughter, Anne, grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful when her father makes war on his former friends. Wed while only a girl, she is widowed and then left fatherless. Wi ...Show more
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
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Category: Historical
An iconic debut. The perfect gift for Mother's Day.In London, journalist Jo Clifford plans to debunk the belief in past-lives in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when a hypnotist forces her to relive the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, a noblewoman during the reign of Kin ...Show more
Belgravia: A Tale of Secrets and Scandal Set in 1840s London by Julian Fellowes
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Category: Historical | Series: Julian Fellowes' Belgravia Series | Reading Level: good
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. ...Show more