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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. 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MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99213K C.S. 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99213K C.S. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99213K C.S. 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He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Details Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Details First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. 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MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Quick view Details sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Details First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... 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With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89694K James McGee / Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood #3) Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Details First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89694K James McGee / Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood #3) Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Details First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89694K James McGee / Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood #3) Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: wW9383K Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback) A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW9306K Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback) Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW9273K Armando Lucas Correa / The German Girl (Large Paperback) Berlin, 1939. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in ominous flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places they once... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW28328H Robert Harris / Munich (Hardback) September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlain’s plane judders over... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99978K Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback) Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99970K Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback) Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99968K Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback) Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1532K Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback) ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1487K Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1486K Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback) While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime... This book is second... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW17206H Sonia Velton / Blackberry & Wild Rose (Large Paperback) WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99834K Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback) At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,... 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MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99596K Anne O'Brien / A Tapestry of Treason (Large Paperback) Her actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1018K Christopher Bigsby / Pearl (Hardback) Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England, to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother had fled. Although a determined woman, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89694K James McGee / Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood #3) Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... 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Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: wW9244K Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback) Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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SALE Quick view sku: X99869K Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback) Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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SALE Quick view sku: X99721K Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback) Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X99720K Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback) Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X99715K S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback) It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 89694K James McGee / Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood #3) Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. 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MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 89663K Anne Perry / At Some Disputed Barricade It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED6779 Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969 Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970 The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 89357K Barbara Whitnell / A Clear Blue Sky Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR23502H Sally Cabot Gunning / Painting the Light From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 89346K Carolly Erickson / Tsarina's Daughter It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. But she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1700 Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956 A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs. Tanning and edgewear to pages. Now in a removabel Herma dustjacket protector... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1623 Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953. Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover. Renny's Daughter" is the ( standalone) 14th book... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1622 Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover. The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war with Russia on English society, specifically focusing on... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: X99278K Jocelyn Green / Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga #1) (Large Paperback) Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 88555K Caroline Dunford / Hope for the Innocent It is 1939 and World War II is looming...Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocracy and, in London, socialites are gathering for the start of the Season.Enter astute, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford, whose quick wit, love... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view Booker Prize Winners | sku: X99214K Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback) With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X99213K C.S. Godshalk / Kalimantaan (Large Paperback) One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1510 Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: MED1352 Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963 Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: wW8537H Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (Large Paperback) London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98998K Amanda Coplin / The Orchardist (Large Paperback) At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98813K Ann Whitehead / Australia Street (Large Paperback) Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98809K Diane Armstrong / Empire Day (Large Paperback) Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW23027H Emily Hourican / A Kennedy Affair (Large Paperback) When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,... MSRP: £3.53 Was: £3.53 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98700K Justine Saracen / Sistine Heresy (Large Paperback) Adrianna Borgia - survivor of the Borgia court - presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. This book is second hand, and while you may... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: X98524K Ian Townsend / Affection : There is no cure (Large Paperback) January 1900, and Australia′s tropical north just got a little hotter.An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98315K Martin Davies / The Conjuror's Bird (Large Paperback) It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that is almost extinct. Suddenly, though, the beautiful Gabby reappears in his life. She wants his help... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98270K Catherine Browder / Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov (Large Paperback) These novellas envision a future for the principal characters in three of Anton Chekhov's plays ( The Seagull, Uncle Vanya , and The Three Sisters ), all set in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of our books are second... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW4122H Rosie Thomas / The Kashmir Shawl (Large Paperback) Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime! Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X97928K Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible,... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: MED740,MED5973 Jon Cleary -The Faraway Drums - HB - 1982 Hardcover, a smaller format Book Club Edition 1982 ( originally published 1981) . Set in colonial Raj era India, 1911 about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: wW26715H Alice McDermott / Absolution (Large Paperback) You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: X97643K Maurice Collis / She Was a Queen (Large Paperback) This tale of a peasant girl who rises to nobility in 13th-century Burma and must contend with courtly intrigue and plots of murder was written in 1936 by Collis, who lived in Burma for 20 years. He describes the fall of the Pagan dynasty, based on... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 85846K Wallace Breem / The Legate's Daughter The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 85823K Maurice Druon / The Poisoned Crown A crown is a poisonous thing...After having his first wife murdered and his mistress exiled, the weak and impotent King Louis X of France becomes besotted with the lovely and pious Princess Clemence of Hungary.Having made her his new queen, and believing... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED639 Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938. Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected
Quick view First Editions | sku: MED4102 George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady - HB 1977 ( First UK Edition) Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Flashman's at it again! Caught... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Compare Selected
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