Historical Fiction

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  The Captain's Wife
  Kirsten McKenzie - Hardback - John Murray
  1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella away from the land of her childhood towards unseen places and an unknown future.
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  Claudius
  Douglas Jackson - Paperback - Corgi
  In Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop as the scarlet cloaks of a Roman army spread across his land like blood. Among them is Rufus, keeper of the Emperor's elephant, an unwilling participant in the invasion of Britain.
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  Cleopatra's People
  Naomi Mitchison - Paperback - Kennedy & Boyd
  Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of her 'mates'. The impact of Cleopatra's life and personality is reflected through them, and their efforts to follow in her wake.
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  Conquest
  Jack Ludlow - Hardback - Allison & Busby
  In one generation the de Hautevilles have gone from penniless obscurity to become the most potent warrior family in all of Christendom: depended on by the Pope, feared by Byzantium and respected by the Holy Roman Emperor. One by one they have proved themselves to be great warriors.
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  The Chief: A Highland Guard Novel
  Monica McCarty - Paperback - Ballantine
  Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands & Western Isles, Robert the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule. They are the best of the best, chosen for their skills in each discipline of warfare, and to lead his secret Highland Guard, Bruce chooses the greatest warrior of all.
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  Corrag
  Susan Fletcher - Hardback - Fourth Estate
  In 'Corrag', Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a single heart can make - and how deep and lasting relationships can come from the most unlikely places.
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  A Christmas Promise
  Anne Perry - Hardback - Headline
  A young girl is searching for the truth behind her uncle's death. Can she solve the mystery before the Christmas bells toll?
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  The Conquered
  Naomi Mitchison - Paperback - Kennedy & Boyd
  Naomi Mitchison's first novel, 'The Conquered' follows Julius Caesar's bloody and gradual conquest of Gaul. Written just five years after the end of the First World War, Mitchison draws parallels between the struggles between the Romans and the Gauls and the more contemporary conflict between the Irish and the British Empire.
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  Claudius
  Douglas Jackson - Hardback - Bantam
  In Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop as the scarlet cloaks of a Roman army spread across his land like blood. Among them is Rufus, keeper of the Emperor's elephant, an unwilling participant in the invasion of Britain.
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  Coronach
  Kimberley Jordan Reeman - Paperback - AuthorHOUSE
  Scotland, July 1746 - an army of occupation ravages the Highlands, committing atrocities with consequences that will reverberate across generations. From this bloody cataclysm, the hardened professional soldier Mordaunt saves an infant who becomes his heiress and his obsession.