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Historical fiction
Hardback. Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder-and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FFH; FH; FRH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787199965
- ISBN
- 9781787199965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.36
€ 18.99
€ 15.36
Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 105 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781909621503
- ISBN
- 9781909621503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 5.70
€ 14.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 305 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241977637
- ISBN
- 9780241977637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.66
€ 9.66
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000163
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099425151
- ISBN
- 9780099425151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.71
€ 13.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099474432
- ISBN
- 9780099474432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.15
€ 11.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak; Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover; and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home. Can these three women ever let go of the past? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FJMF; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552779463
- ISBN
- 9780552779463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.71
€ 11.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749399573
- ISBN
- 9780749399573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.71
€ 13.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Series: The Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405921497
- ISBN
- 9781405921497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.15
€ 10.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160739
- ISBN
- 9781784160739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.71
€ 11.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099492733
- ISBN
- 9780099492733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.71
€ 12.99
€ 9.71
paperback. Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Number of pages
- 304
- SKU
- KOG0001797
- ISBN
- 9781782396826
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 5.12
€ 12.99
€ 5.12
Paperback. A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Verso
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781688977
- ISBN
- 9781781688977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.80
€ 16.99
€ 13.80
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000988
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham.. Series: Henrietta Lightfoot. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001759
- ISBN
- 9780552162517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Isabella is flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III. Blanche of Castile is the serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX. The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen. Series: Plantagenet Saga. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344. DIASPORA
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099510260
- ISBN
- 9780099510260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.28
€ 12.99
€ 10.28
Paperback. A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 novel follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo as he travels in Europe. Translated into English for the first time, it is accompanied by an introduction, glossary, and notes. Editor(s): Friedman, Victor A. Translator(s): Friedman, Victor A.; Kramer, Christina E.; Fielder, Grace E.; Rudin, Catherine. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299236946
- ISBN
- 9780299236946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.39
€ 30.39
Paperback. The unsolved riddle at the heart of style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pudd'nhead Wilson> is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059832
- ISBN
- 9780674059832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.63
€ 34.99
€ 29.63
Paperback. The Dickinson household is saved from domestic chaos with the arrival of Ada Concannon, a "neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat". Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910124550
- ISBN
- 9781910124550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.82
€ 11.99
€ 9.82
Paperback. Florence, 1466. A lust for life, a passion for power and a taste for adventure.. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781409127888
- ISBN
- 9781409127888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99