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9780099751816

An Instance of the Fingerpost

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Author: Iain Pears

Published by: Vintage/Ebury

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We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologican and inveterate plotter; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each witness tells their version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth.
An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery story with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader ... more

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9780755330676

A Secret Alchemy

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Author: Emma Darwin

Published by: Feature

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Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence. In A Secret Alchemy, three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; of her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother Dickon; and that of present-day historian Una Pryor. Orphaned, and herself brought up in a family where secrets and rivalries threaten her world, Una's ... more

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9780007271221

Azincourt

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Author: Bernard Cornwell

Published by: Harper Collins

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An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist Azincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England's best-known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory and in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow - a weapon developed by the English which enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century. Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt is a vivid, breathtaking and meticulously well-researched account of this momentous battle and its aftermath. From the varying viewpoints of nobles, peasants, archers, and horsemen, Azincourt skilfully brings to life the hours of relentless fighting, the desperation of an army crippled by disease and the exceptional bravery of the English soldiers.

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9780340839713

Brethren

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Author: Robyn Young

Published by: Hodder Paperback

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From the burning plains of Syria to the filthy backstreets of Paris and London, Brethren is the story of Will Campbell, coming of age in a time of conspiracy, passion, politics and war. Will has been brought up from boyhood in the ways of the all-powerful Order of the Knights Templar. With a tragedy in his past that looms over his future, he faces a long, hard apprenticeship to the foul-tempered scholar Everard, before he can have any chance of becoming a Knight. As he struggles to survive in the harsh discipline of the Temple, Will must try to make sense of many things: his own past, the dangerous mystery that surrounds Everard, and his confused feelings for Elwen, the strong-willed young woman whose path seems always to cross his own. Meanwhile, a new star is rising in the East. A ruthless fighter and brilliant tactician, the former slave Baybars has become one of the greatest generals and rulers of his time. Haunted by his early ... more

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9780340839744

Crusade

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Author: Robyn Young

Published by: Hodder Paperback

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Itis 1274 and in the fortified city of Acre, the last major stronghold of the Crusaders in Palestine, an epic conflict is beginning.Will Campbell is a Templar Knight, trained for war, but as a member of the mysterious group known as the Brethren, he is also a man of peace. After years of bloodshed, the Brethren have helped to create a truce between the Christians and Muslims. But Will now fears they have been betrayed. King Edward of England haspromised the Pope that he will lead a new Crusade, while in Acre itself,a ruthless cabal of Western merchants, profiteering from slaves and armaments,is plottingto reignite hostilities in the Holy Land.Meanwhile, in Egypt, Sultan Baybars is caught in a power struggle. Hisson andheirhas becomeinvolvedin the dangerous designs of the insidious soothsayer, Khadir. While Baybars wants to take on the mighty Mongol empire, Khadir and others want to destroy the Christians once and for all.As war looms, ... more

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9781863252690

Dawn on a Distant Shore

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Author: Sara Donati

Published by: TRANAU

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Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794 when Elizabeth gives birth to healthy twins. But soon the events in Canada draw Nathaniel far away from his new family. Word has reached them that Nate's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. He reluctantly leaves Hidden Wolf Mountain to set out for the distant city, determined to see his father freed. Instead he is imprisoned also and finds himself in imminent danger of being hanged as an American Spy!
In a desperate bid to save her husband, Elizabeth bundles her infants and sets out on the long trek to Montreal. She soon discovers that freeing Nathaniel will take every ounce of her courage and inventiveness. It is a struggle that threatens her with loss of what she loves most: her children. Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage this time across the ... more

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9781877386824

Elusive Gold

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NZ$ 23.00 each

Author: Tim Haywood

Published by: Murray Haywood

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780007164776

Emperor: The Gods of War

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Author: Conn Iggulden

Published by: HarperCollins Publishers

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This is the fourth and final volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar.

Caesar must fight his toughest battle yet - with Rome itself. Julius Caesar, fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. His goal: to unseat Pompey, now dictator of the Empire. But waging war on your own people is never easy. And even after the city itself is taken and Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian re-enter in triumph, there are many battles left to fight. For across the Empire - in Spain, Africa, Greece, across Asia Minor - there are legions loyal to Pompey. How will Caesar prevail? And at what cost?

The Gods of War is the story of ambition and loyalty, of friendship and power, of love and war.
A famous tale, of truly epic dimensions, it ranges ... more

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9781863252805

Fire Along the Sky

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Author: Sara Donati

Published by: Bantam Books UK

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Now in paperback, the epic frontier tale of love and adventure that began with INTO THE WILDERNESS continues with a courageous woman's journey across a young nation threatened by war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has come home to the mountain cabin in Paradise where she grew up with her father Nathaniel and her stepmother Elizabeth. But she has returned alone, without her husband and without her son - and with a story of horror and loss that she cannot bear to tell. As Hannah struggles to pick up the threads of her old life, resuming her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, little does she realise that she is about to face her greatest challenge ever. In her absence Hannah's stepsister Lily has grown into a reckless beauty, whose wayward affair with a married man will have shattering consequences for everyone. As the distant thunder of war draws ever closer, Hannah is called away to perform one final act of courage ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781863251792

Into the Wilderness

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Author: Sara Donati

Published by: TRANAU

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The work of first-time author, Sara Donati, so impressed bestselling author Diana Gabaldon that she paid Donati the ultimate tribute in allowing her to borrow two of her most beloved characters Jamie and Claire from her bestselling Voyager series.

Into the Wilderness is the story of Elizabeth Middleton, an independent, strong-willed English woman who travels to America in 1792 to set up a school in 'Paradise', a primitive settlement on the edges of a wilderness the white settlers share grudgingly with the Mohawk Wolf clan. There she finds her father has plans to marry her off to a wealthy settler and solve his financial problems into the bargain.

But Elizabeth is just as determined to realise her dream in the hostile new land and finds an unlikely supporter in Nathaniel Bonner, a rugged Scottish trapper who is also an honorary member of the Mohawk Wolf clan.

Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781863252782

Lake in the Clouds

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Author: Donati Sara

Published by: TRANAU

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Lake in the Clouds picks up the story of the spirited Elizabeth and her beloved frontiersman Nathaniel, known by the Mohawk as ‘Between-Two-Lives’, in spring 1802 as the village of Paradise is still reeling from a typhoid epidemic.

Nathaniel’s beautiful half-Indian daughter Hannah, has become a gifted healer and doctor in training but her determination to give refuge to a dangerously ill slave puts both her family and her heart in jeopardy for the bounty hunter tracking the runaway is Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.

Hannah’s action sets off a chain of events that sees Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey across the wilderness and Hannah embark on a quest to New York City to learn the secrets of smallpox and to discover what made Liam change so drastically from the boy she once loved.

Along the way the Bonners must confront more than one old enemy in a battle ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780099509387

New York

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Author: Edward Rutherfurd

Published by: Arrow Books

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Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could - from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed. The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness. The British settlers and merchants followed, with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation which led to rebellion, war, the burning of the city and the birth of the American Nation. Yet a country that had already rent itself asunder once did so again over slavery. As the country fought its bloody Civil War, the city was torn apart by deadly riots. Hopes and dreams, greed and corruption - they have always been the companions of freedom and opportunity in the city's teeming streets. As the immigrant ships berthed next to ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780330458290

Pirate (Sea Robber - Book 3)

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Author: Tim Severin

Published by: Picador

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Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn and when his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru, he learns that Maria, the young Spanish woman who stole his heart and whose false testimony saved him from the gallows, is now living on the remote Ladrones, the Thief Islands, on the far side of the Pacific Ocean. His epic voyage to reach her will bring him face to face with a Japanese warlord who submits trespassers to his island to a deadly duel and with a naked Stone Age tribe who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon.
In Pirate: Sea Robbers Tim Severin takes the reader on an enthralling adventure through the seventeenth-century world of the seafarers who risked scurvy, shipwreck and drowning in hopes of reaping fortunes in ... more

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9781863252829

Queen of Swords (#5)

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Author: Sara Donati

Published by: Bantam,Australia

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As creator of the beloved INTO THE WILDERNESS historical series, Sara Donati has won the hearts and minds of readers around the world, but none so passionate and loyal as the fans in Australia and New Zealand who made her a bestselling author. Any whiff of a new book in this series has Sara's fans clamouring to get their latest fix.
And she delivers in spades with another ripping good yarn in QUEEN OF SWORDS. Not only that, the story developed so well that it forced Donati to abandon her plan to make this the last book in the series and start writing another final instalment, JOURNEY'S END.
Shifting from the Caribbean to New Orleans on the brink of war, QUEEN OF SWORDS picks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Indian daughter of frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner as she embarks on a desperate rescue mission with her half-brother Luke. When Hannah is separated from Luke and falls dangerously ill in New Orleans, she is forced ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781844080359

The Birth of Venus

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Author: Sarah Dunant

Published by: Abacus

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the altar of the family chapel in their Florentine Palazzo. A child of the Renaissance with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by his talent. As Medici Florence is threatened by the hellfire of the monk Savonarola, the painter and his dazzling art exert an ever more powerful and erotic pull.

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