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Genre: Historical Fiction

Heaven Forbid

Christopher Hope

RRP: £9.99

In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extend …

Jimfish

Christopher Hope

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and ther …

Painted Horses

Malcolm Brooks

RRP: £12.99

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild.Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her w …

Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEDamon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the Booker Pr …

When the Doves Disappeared

Sofi Oksanen

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army – Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his sli …

The Lives of Women

Christine Dwyer Hickey

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The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.’One of Ireland’s most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her sto …

The Templar Inheritance

Mario Reading

RRP: £7.99

From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling authorA Templar secret, hidden for centuries… 1198. On the eve of his execution, disgraced Templar knight Johannes von Hartelius writes a last confession. The …

Murder and Mendelssohn

Kerry Greenwood

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The twentieth Phryne Fisher murder mysteryAn orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher’s assistance t …

Rome's Lost Son

Robert Fabbri

RRP: £9.99

THE EXPLOSIVELY GRIPPING, 300,000 COPY BESTSELLING ROMAN EPIC SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF GLADIATORBritannia, 45 AD: Vespasian’s brother is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrif …

The Castlemaine Murders

Kerry Greenwood

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The thirteenth Phryne Fisher murder mysteryPhryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid Dot decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne’s two daughter …

Unnatural Habits

Kerry Greenwood

RRP: £7.99

The nineteenth Phryne Fisher murder mystery1929: pretty little golden-haired girls are going missing in Melbourne. But they’re not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh co …

Brimstone

Robert B. Parker

Gunslinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch rescue Allie French, Virgil’s former sweetie who ran off to become a prostitute, and head to Brimstone, south Texas. The two gunmen sign on as dep …

Only the Animals

Ceridwen Dovey

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Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench o …

Robert B. Parker Omnibus

Robert B. Parker

AppaloosaNew 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 kingdo …

The Crossroads Brotherhood Trilogy

Robert Fabbri

Starring characters from the bestselling Vespasian series, The Crossroads Brotherhood, The Racing Factions and The Dreams of Morpheus delve into Rome’s criminal underworld. In each of these exclusive …

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

RRP: £18.99

Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage and vengeance. In riveting prose, Shacochis …

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