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28 Bunkers
Author: Elizabeth Braun
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
Chicago, 1941: Ray, a simple farm worker, makes his way across the US to join the war effort as an RAF fighter pilot. With little experience – of life or war – Ray’s journey will take him further away from home than he expects.
In Ludwigshafen, Germany, Erich and Gerda try to raise their young family, cursing the futility of the war whenever the air raid sirens sound. Each time they take shelter in their town’s above... Read More |
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Aefled and Eleanor: A Poet’s Tale
Author: Val Morgan
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
Fifteen years after devastating regime change, England is in the grip of Norman rule. Alien laws, customs and language are transforming people's lives from the highest to the lowest levels of society. Only the poetry, tales, stories and songs from the old times remain in the collective memory as vestiges of a former life. In this world, Aefled, a young woman of intelligence and education, sensitive to the poetic tradition of her... Read More |
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Arrows Over Agincourt
Author: David Lawrence-Young
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
1415. Davey and Tom, two eighteen-year old country lads looking for excitement, join Henry V's army despite their parents’ and girlfriends’ wishes. The king is determined to regain his lost French lands and the two lads, now archers, set sail for France hoping for adventures and the spoils of war.
Their hopes of a glorious victory are shattered during the prolonged siege at Harfleur where they witness the death of thousands... Read More |
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Cometh the Man
Author: Gordon Taylor
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
Nathaniel Davidson has a life of privilege as the son of a peer of the realm in 1820’s, Northumberland.
This privileged existence hides a complex relationship between himself, an overbearing, sometimes cruel father, and an intensely loving mother.
Living in the picturesque setting of Thistlebrough Hall in Northumberland, Nathaniel seems set for life.
His father’s imperious and domineering conduct forces the... Read More |
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Dead Man's Hill
Author: George Peter Algar
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The die was cast long before the English and Scots crossed swords at the infamous Battle of Flodden. Dead Man’s Hill leaves you in no doubt as to what lies ahead, as it transports you through the brutal labyrinths of murky Tudor politics with intrigue, strategies and bold manoeuvrings. Bristling skirmishes and petty disputes smoulder, splutter and spit into all-out warfare as King James IV of Scotland finally judges he
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Hotel Boy
Author: John Trythall
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
We first meet Michael at the start of World War II, when his beloved daddy has been killed, for reasons best known to herself, Eva, Michael's mother has decided they should live at the 'Roselea' a seaside hotel. Living there are a mixture of residents (usually on the elderly side) and ordinary guests. It is not an auspicious start for Michael as he is shown to his room - a bed in the hotel's hairdressing parlour! Luckily reading is... Read More |
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Innocence Unbound
Author: Andrew Richardson
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99 £7.19
Set in Nazi Europe, this story describes how Ulrich Dreher, the only son of a wealthy family of German origin, meets Ruth, the daughter of a working-class Jewish family, and falls deeply in love with her. Overcoming his anti-Semitic views, he proposes marriage and she accepts. In a staunchly Catholic, pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic Austria he becomes an outcast from his family and faith.
As this dramatic story of love and war... Read More |
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King Cotton
Author: James Palmer
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Breathtaking descriptions of the treacherous sea voyages, and a wonderful portrayal of life in Boston and on a cotton plantation in Carolina, contrasts vividly with a simple life of farming in nineteenth-century Yorkshire.
This is complemented by a county-wide manhunt for a dangerous, cunning criminal who will stop at nothing to further his own ends. His criminality grows from petty theft to arson and murder. King Cotton is... Read More |
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Maria's Papers
Author: Stephen F. Clegg
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Based on a true story, the once-wealthy Chance family are swindled out of their Whitewall Estate in the mid-1700s and the truth isn’t discovered for nearly ninety years.
In 1850 Maria Chance promises her dying father to put this injustice to rights, and is thereafter plunged into some extraordinarily dangerous and terrifying situations in mid-Victorian Britain that threaten not only her life, but her sanity too.
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Mazi Obieze The Warrior
Author: St Darlington Ngozi Obi
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
This author combines an heroic epic of one warrior's struggles, with a distinctive focus on the culture and language of his people. The stories of the interaction between several villages culminates in the war between his domain, centred on the life and villagers of Duruike village and that of the aggressive members who reside in Kamalu village. Here the lives of its people are governed by witches and wizards, whose leaders present... Read More |
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Memories Of The Past
Author: Serge Momjian
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
Vartan Apelian is only two when he loses his parents in the first large-scale massacres of the twentieth century. It is not until his mid-teens that he realises the tragedy of the past. He emigrates to the States in the 1930’s during a period of poverty and general unemployment. He manages to scratch a living from pretty hard work and then talks to the survivors of a homeland that no longer exists. The compelling eyewitness... Read More |
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Mrs Morgan's Gift
Author: Sam Kelly
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
When the widow of Joe Carter's old employer passes away, she leaves a very generous gift to him, his wife, Peggy and their children. Little does Joe know at the time, but Mrs Morgan's gift is set to change his and his family's life forever. It leads them on a path from poverty and enables them to touch the lives of others with their good fortune.
Against a backdrop of social change and great upheaval in Britain in the first... Read More |
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Offstage at Troy
Author: V.C. Heane
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99 £4.79
For nine years the siege of Troy has dragged on, and life outside the city gates is tough for the Greek army, stuck in their tents and huts, in the scorching heat, with constant raids by Trojans who'll kill anyone they can, servants or not...
Nios, who works for the brutal Alkimos, has had enough. The people around him – apart from his good friend Pallas - are enough to drive anyone mad. His only ambition is to get back to... Read More |
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Sail Away From Botany Bay
Author: David Lawrence-Young
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
1791. Three years after being transported to Botany Bay, Mary Broad, her two small children, husband and several desperate prisoners escape the cruel conditions of Australia's first convict colony. Stealing a boat in the middle of the night, they set off on their long voyage north - to freedom or death. After many adventures fighting the sea and warlike Aborigines, they succeed in crossing the shark-infested Timor Sea and land... Read More |
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Tampico's Gold (Faja de Oro)
Author: Elizabeth Braun
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
William drops Anna’s diary. He covers his face with his hands to hide the tears streaming down. Sobs shake his entire being. How could he have been so wrong? Why had he listened to the rumours instead of his heart? How could he have been so foolish? The truth lay in the book lying inert in his lap, a year of hopes and dreams and way too much sorrow. Could he bridge that gap now? Or was it too late? The diary gave him... Read More |
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The Anglo-French Conspiracy
Author: K.G. Farrell
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99 £5.59
As the sun rose on the 7th May 1429, Joan felt that her whole life had been in preparation for the epic event that was about to unfold. The day before, she had directed her confessor to stay close to her on the morrow, as blood would flow from her body. The attack on the Tourelles, a well fortified bridge crossing the Loire into the City of Orleans, started at seven in the morning, and it was about noon that Joan’s prediction came... Read More |
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The Broken Shield
Author: M. J. Hands
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
This action-packed historical novel commences on the aftermath of The Battle of Hastings, following the fortunes of both the victorious Normans as well as the vanquished English.
In the years following "The Conquest", the Norman hold on England is sorely tested with revolts flaring up all over the country, mainly led by two English noblemen, Wild Edric who with his Welsh allies expelled his Norman enemies from large areas... Read More |
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The Forgotten Rebellion
Author: Benjamin Rudall
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
Scotland, 1815.
Courageous and beautiful Maggie Burns becomes swept up in an elaborate plot that will destroy the heart of Scotland and England forever. Propaganda and rumour turn the Scottish people against England, causing rebels to take up arms and fight. Maggie is targeted by a mysterious monk to solve a mystery that will change Britain as we know it. Along with Richard, to whom Maggie feels herself drawn, they... Read More |
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The Humming Tree
Author: Sylvia Ann Baxter
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Rebecca Chandler's life is changed forever when she buys an old rocking chair with dramatic consequences. Made from the wood from the ancient humming tree, the chair takes Rebecca on an incredible journey into the past, where, in order to fulfil an old gypsy's prophecy foretold in the seventeen-hundreds, she becomes drawn into the lives of the warm-hearted, yet tragically ill-fated Lancaster family, whose increasing dependency on... Read More |
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The Lights
Author: Zara Howard
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
Dark forces have wormed their way in to Dominic Bailey's life. An unknown terrorist cell has marked him a loose link in the chain.
To them he is the chink in the armour of what they perceive to be achieved, blind, deceptively capitalism nation. With his help, it is their will to advocate for the people, to empower them, to open their diseased eyes. To teach them that only by suffering can they be free.
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