The Emperor's Gold
Robert WiltonRRP: £14.99
July 1805: Napoleon’s army masses across the Channel – Britain is within hours of invasion and defeat.Only one thing stands in the way – an obscure govenement bureau of murky origins and shadowy purpo …
Genre: Historical Fiction
Mozart's Last Aria
Matt ReesRRP: £7.99
It is 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is enlightenment Vienna’s brightest star. Master of the city’s music halls and devoted member of the Austrian Freemason’s guild, he stands at the heart of an ele …
On Stranger Tides
Tim PowersRRP: £17.99
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship …
Purge
Sofi OksanenRRP: £9.99
A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, n …
Desert
J.M.G Le ClézioRRP: £11.99
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour’s tribe – the Blue Men – are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst …
The Bones of Avalon
Phil RickmanRRP: £10.99
It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year. Dr John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts… a controversial appoin …
Appaloosa
Robert B. ParkerRRP: £7.99
New Mexico Territory, 1882: two itinerant lawmen walk their horses down the long, shale-scattered slope into the frontier town of Appaloosa. Below them, lies rancher Randall Braggs’ new fiefdom. Ever …
The Brothers Boswell
Philip BaruthRRP: £7.99
30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare. Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in …
The Mayan Codex
Mario ReadingRRP: £6.99
Adam Sabir has discovered the missing quatrains of Nostradamus, and the events they foretell are coming true. But there’s one prophecy he can’t fully decipher, and it warns of the imminent arrival of …
Peace
Richard BauschRRP: £7.99
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky c …
Declare
Tim PowersRRP: £8.99
A mesmerising, award-winning, daringly imaginative, multi-levelled thriller for fans of John le Carre or Neal Stephenson, Declare reveals the secret history of the twentieth century
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard PowersRRP: £8.99
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY_____________________Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Special Citation, PEN Hemin …
White Ghost Girls
Alice GreenwayRRP: £7.99
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionA Radio 4 Book at BedtimeTwo sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes a …
Last Train from Liguria
Christine Dwyer HickeyRRP: £8.99
In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family’s summer home, Bella’s rese …
Desert
J.M.G Le ClézioRRP: £10.99
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and …
The Nostradamus Prophecies
Mario ReadingRRP: £6.99
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the FutureNostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing predictions? And w …
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