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Historical Fiction Books
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Relics of the Dead
Ariana Franklin
March 2010 Book of the Month.
This is the third in a seriously good medical crime series starring a feisty heroine, anatomist Adelia Aguilar. The first (a must read), Mistress of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Evil on the Wind
Diney Costeloe
From the opening pages this book grips and unsettles the reader, beginning with the German authorities terrorising Jewish families in the middle of the night, rampaging through the streets burning homes and businesses. The reader is immediately drawn in to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2009
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Twelve
Jasper Kent
A slow building mystery, an historical tour-de-force, a tale of creeping horror, Jasper Kent’s superb novel is a masterful blending of all three. The elusive and secretive vampires are strangely believable as they hide from extravagance and obey their own...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Corrag
Susan Fletcher
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
A sweeping historical drama based around the massacre of the MacDonald clan in 1692 and told from the perspective of a young girl, now imprisoned, accused of being a witch. Rich in historical detail and wonderfully...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009. Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at its best."
April...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Historical fiction is such a great way to experience the past. It’s fascinating, thrilling and you learn from it. Wonderful! The best way to make sure you’re ahead of history is through our emails, which will guide you to the latest and best so you can... Live ancient Egypt (Christian Jacq) or real life in 18th Century London (Maureen Waller)... Experience the terrifying menace of Vesuvius (Robert Harris) or get a fix on Troy as it actually was (Michael Wood)... Play politics at the mercurial court of Henry VIII (Philippa Gregory) or watch as the Romanov dynasty self-destructs (Carolly Erickson)... Analyse Napoleon’s misguided march on Moscow (Adam Zamoyski) or share an ordinary soldier’s experience of the Great War (Richard Holmes)...
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 17 January 2010.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic...
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this
searing story of the nuns of Santa...
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The Wilding
Maria McCann
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
February 2010 Book of the Month.
Set just after the English Civil war...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan
A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution...
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The Given Day
Dennis Lehane
A big novel in every way, packed with action, in a time of huge social upheaval, for this is Boston 1918-1919. With strikes, poverty, racism, corruption, anarchist bombs, riots on...
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The Gladiator
Simon Scarrow
If you are unaware of the Roman army officers Macro and Cato you are missing out. One is old and a veteran, the other young and clever, and together they...
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Springtime in Burracombe
Lilian Harry
The latest in her Dartmoor-based series takes us on to 1953, Coronation year, and the ups and downs of the village. People fluctuate between tragedy and bliss in another involved,...
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Music and Silence
Rose Tremain
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
Rose Tremain’s historical novels are big gems. My favourite is Music And Silence. It’s a book you just inhabit as you...
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The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With any novel set in Salem, Massachusetts, you sort of know it is going to be haunted...
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The Month Before's Featured Books
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Their Finest Hour and a Half
Lissa Evans
The making of a propaganda film in the 40s – the script ideas, the untrained people involved, the petty jealousies, the atmosphere of ‘making do’ in wartime and the utter...
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A Penny a Day
Lilian Harry
Lilian Harry is one of those lovely authors whose fans may argue about whether her April Groves books are better than her Burracombe ones. Well, now you have a book...
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Raven: Blood Eye
Giles Kristian
January 2010 Debut of the Month.
A really good yarn with constant changes of pace, action and drama as the Vikings sweep on...
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An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon
The long wait is over and the seventh instalment in the Outlander series is here. Packed full of historical detail and characters galore, settle down with 800 plus pages of...
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The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
From the author of the brilliantly atmospheric The Historian, comes this mesmerising psychological mystery that revolves around the conflicting powers of art. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe...
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