Historical fiction

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  • The wide world

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    The wide world

    Beirut, 1948. The Pelletier family returns. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn’t have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money-grubbing young woman who quickly makes him miserable, and they emigrate to Paris. But there’s another reason Jean must leave – he has committed a terrible crime. His brother, Etienne, travels to Saigon, where he soon uncovers irregularities in the local currency office and begins investigating what he believes is a scheme to channel smuggled goods and cash to the Viet Minh. It is evidence that presents a real threat to his own life.

    £9.99
  • The witch’s daughter

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    The witch’s daughter

    A love story set against the background of the Russian Revolution after the murder of Rasputin. For Princess Militza, famed as one of the ‘Witches of St Petersburg’ and her daughter Nadezhda, life is about to become extremely dangerous. Revolution is bubbling and the court is on the run, fleeing from the mob.

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    £20.00
  • The women

    £16.99

    The women

    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, The Women is the story of a generation, of epic love and profound loss. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.

    £16.99
  • The world and all that it holds

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    The world and all that it holds

    An epic, continent-spanning story of a world in convulsion, of millions broken between war, displacement and revolution, and of human bonds so strong, of love so absolute, that they stretch from Sarajevo to Shanghai without snapping, and conquer all.

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    £9.99
  • Things Fall Apart

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    Things Fall Apart

    ‘Things Fall Apart’ tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. Okonkwo becomes exiled from his tribe, as a result of his pride and his fears, with tragic consequences.

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  • Three fires

    £10.00

    Three fires

    Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose helfire and damnation sermons pushed the city of Florence to its breaking point. In Three Fires, Denise Mina brings a modern take to this fascinating historical story – drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day.

    £10.00
  • Trespasses

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    Trespasses

    Cushla Lavery lives with her mother in a small town near Belfast. At 24, she splits her time between her day job as a teacher to a class of 7-year-olds, and regular bartending shifts in the pub owned by her family. It’s here, on a day like any other – as the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploding, another man shot, killed, beaten or left for dead – that she meets Michael Agnew, an older (and married) barrister who draws her into his sophisticated group of friends. When the father of a young boy in her class, becomes the victim of a savage attack, Cushla is compelled to help his family. But as her affair with Michael intensifies, political tensions in the town escalate, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.

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  • Voting day

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    Voting day

    In February 1959, Switzerland held a referendum on women’s suffrage. The men voted ‘no’. In this powerful novella, Clare O’Dea explores that day through the eyes of four very different Swiss women. Vreni is a busy farmer’s wife, longing for a break from family life. Her grown-up daughter Margrit is carving out an independent life in Bern, but finds herself trapped in an alarming situation. Esther, a cleaner, is desperate to recover her son who has been taken into care. Beatrice, a hospital administrator, has been throwing herself into the ‘yes’ campaign. The four women’s paths intersect on a day that will leave its mark on all their lives.

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  • Wandering souls

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    Wandering souls

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

    ‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG

    ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG

    ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER

    ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR

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  • Wolf Hall

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    Wolf Hall

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize

    The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light

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    £10.99