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'I was a penniless, landless petitioner, my Neville blood a curse, my future dependent on the...
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Swimming in the Dark
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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of...
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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Lives don't get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary...
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The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the...
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Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story
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Anew edition draws on fresh evidence from archive sources including decoded secret correspondence to...
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Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
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'Linda Porter has done a marvellous job in bringing Katherine Parr to life. In so doing, she evokes...
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Nerva and the Roman Successtion Crisis of AD 96-99
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The imperial succession at Rome was notoriously uncertain, and where possible hereditary succession...
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The Lost Plot: The Invisible Library Book 4
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A covert mission A royal demand And a race against time The fourth title in Genevieve Cogman's...
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Vittorio the Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires, #2)
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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her...