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Honorable Company

by: Allan Mallinson

Captain Matthew Hervey makes the hazardous sea voyage to India for what the Duke of Wellington has called "deuced tricky work". As Wellington's new aide-de-camp, Matthew's covert mission will embroil him in the jostling of native potentates and England's encroaching East India Company - both...

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The Fair Maid of Perth: Or St. Valentine's Day

by: Walter Scott

Set at the end of the 14th century, the background to The Fair Maid of Perth is intrigue and feuding that plagued the court of the mild- mannered RobertIII. Catherine Glover, the daughter of a respectable citizen of perth, is the objected of desire not only of the profligate Duke of Rothsay, her...

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The Silk Weaver

by: Gabrielle Warnock

Set in the Dublin of 1798, a period of great political unrest in Irish history, this book tells the story of Anton Paradis, a silk weaver of unparalleled excellence, who finds his life in turmoil when he is reluctantly forced to betray his employer, friend and fellow-revolutionary, Danno McKenna.

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The Mulberry Empire

by: Philip Hensher

The breakthrough novel from one of Britain's most brilliant critics. 'The Mulberry Empire' is a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia -- the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her...

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The Electric Michelangelo

by: Sarah Hall

Beginning as a humble apprentice in Morecambe Bay, Cy flees to America, where he sets up his own tatoo business on the infamous Coney Island boardwalk. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious circus performer.

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Seagulls Dance

by: Larry Tracey

Set in the west of Ireland in the 19th Century, Seagulls Dance is a tumultuous story of love, revenge, hertbreak and struggle.

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The Tenderness of Wolves

by: Stef Penney

It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the...

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A Civil Contract

by: Georgette Heyer

Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan...

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Cotillion

by: Georgette Heyer

The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune, the wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future and his own amusement: his fortune will be Kitty's dowry....

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Pistols for Two

by: Georgette Heyer

Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; and affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own, are...