Historical Fiction
-
The Enchanted April
The story centres on four very different ladies who reply to an advertisement in The Times for a stunning mediaeval castle that is available to rent for a month on the Italian Riviera. They travel to the serene Mediterranean coasts full of hope for...- $ 300.00
- $ 300.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
In the Mountains
“In the Mountains” is a novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim that is narrated in the form of a diary. The narrator is an English woman who seeks refuge in the Swiss Alps after experiencing personal problems shortly after World War I.In July 1919...- $ 300.00
- $ 300.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Age of Innocence
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when...- $ 300.00
- $ 300.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The House of Mirth
A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jennifer Egan.Wharton’s first literary success—a devastatingly accurate portrait...- $ 470.00
- $ 470.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
Ceremony
Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature—a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is...- $ 350.00
- $ 350.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Art of Dying
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks...- $ 500.00
- $ 500.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Discovery Of Slowness
Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet...- $ 350.00
- $ 350.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The People's Act Of Love
1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal...- $ 300.00
- $ 300.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to...- $ 340.00
- $ 340.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
Things in Jars
London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable...- $ 310.00
- $ 310.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Medici Murders
Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two...- $ 360.00
- $ 360.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Secret River
London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence:...- $ 350.00
- $ 350.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Lieutenant
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart...- $ 350.00
- $ 350.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
Crimson Petal and the White
So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for...- $ 400.00
- $ 400.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
Euphoria
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and...- $ 330.00
- $ 330.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Good Muslim
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how...- $ 340.00
- $ 340.00
- Unit price
- per
View details -
The Thirteenth Apostle
When his friend Andrei is mysteriously killed on a train on his way back from Rome, Father Nil, a Benedictine who teaches the Gospel of St John to novices, decides to conduct his own investigation. The dead priest possessed proof of the existence of...- $ 400.00
- $ 400.00
- Unit price
- per
View details
