Historical Fiction

BIC code: FGU
See also: Historical Fiction

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  The Bone Thief
  V. M. Whitworth - Paperback - Ebury
  Edward, son of Alfred the Great, has inherited the Kingdom of Wessex and achieved a precarious set of alliances through marriage and military conquest. But the alliance is uneasy and the Kingdom of Mercia has more reason than most to fear the might of Wessex.
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  Blind Justice
  Anne Perry - Paperback - Headline
  Oliver Rathbone, William Monk's close friend, has presided brilliantly over his first cases as a judge. But the next will bring a far greater challenge. Abel Taft, a charismatic minister adored by his congregation, stands accused of terrible corruption and fraud which has ruined the lives of those he's betrayed. In court, each victim affirms Taft's guilt, but when the defence's star witness tears their stories apart, the case seems lost. Rathbone realises he holds a piece of evidence that could change the outcome of the trial and bring true justice, but can he, as the judge, become involved?
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  Death On Blackheath
  Anne Perry - Hardback - Headline
  Greenwich, 1897. A macabre scene is discovered outside a house on Shooters Hill. There has been a vicious fight, and amid the bloodstains are locks of long auburn hair. Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called: this is the home of Dudley Kynaston, a minister with access to some of the government's most dangerous secrets, and any inquiry must be handled with utmost discretion.
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  Soldier Of Crusade
  Jack Ludlow - Paperback - Allison & Busby
  Bohemund is heading east into the Byzantine Empire, part of the greatest military expedition of medieval times, the Papal Crusade to take back the holy places of Christendom from the infidel. But Bohemund has his own agenda, the increase of his own riches, fiefdoms and influence at any cost.
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  The Lion Rampant
  Robert Low - Paperback - Harper
  A band of brothers has lost almost everything honouring their oath to Robert the Bruce. Wives, daughters, sisters, brothers and lovers have been slain or imprisoned. After seven long years of struggle and endurance, Bruce and his loyal supporter, Hal of Herdmanston, will come face-to-face with Edward II, the English King humiliated by defeat and determined to put down his Scottish enemy once and for all. And the last great battle for the Scottish throne will be decided on a bloody field called Bannockburn.
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  When The Dawn Breaks
  Emma Fraser - Hardback - Sphere
  Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice. Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. And then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, who Isabel just can't stay away from. One encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, and all their lives are irrevocably changed.
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  Brock's Agent
  Tom Taylor - Paperback - Sandstone
  In 1811, while Great Britain was battling Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson declared that seizing British North America would be a mere matter of marching, but Jefferson hadn't counted on British Major General Issac Brock. Brock moulded a reluctant citizenry, the natives, and his meagre army of 1500 redcoats into a fighting force. The future of North America would hang on the outcome.
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  The Island House
  Posie Graeme-Evans - Paperback - Hodder
  Posie Graeme-Evans' novel plunges the reader into a past that never dies and a love that reaches out across a thousand years, as a young archaeologist unearths ancient secrets and Viking treasure on a remote Scottish island.
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  Renegade
  Robyn Young - Paperback - Hodder
  King Edward of England marches on Scotland, inspired by an Arthurian prophecy to unite the British Isles under one crown. Only one man stands in his way. Robert Bruce is determined to claim the throne of Scotland. But, on the run and hunted by a relentless assassin, his ambition appears far from being realised.
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  Avenger Of Rome
  Douglas Jackson - Paperback - Corgi Books
  Emperor Neros grip on power is weakening. In every shadow he sees an enemy and like a cornered animal he lashes out at every perceived threat. His paranoia settles on the figure of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Romes greatest General who leads the imperial legions in the East.