Category: Historical Fiction

At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C.J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The press, radio and television are tightly controlled. British Jews face ever greater constraints.
But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. And in a Birmingham mental hospital, fragile scientist Frank Muncaster holds a secret that could alter the balance of t...
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A Shrine Of Murders

By: C L Grace

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1993

Seller ID: 0146464

ISBN: 0002324849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Maclarens

By: C L Skelton

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Diamond: 1994

Seller ID: 0020951

ISBN: 0261663488

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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The Commodore

By: C S Forester

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Penguin: 2011

Seller ID: 0143102

ISBN: 1405938579

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Commodore Hornblower

By: C S Forester

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Back Bay: 1972

Seller ID: 0145899

ISBN: 0316289388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found -vastly entertaining- and Ernest Hemingway recommended to -every literate I know-, are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures hav...
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Hornblower And The Hotspur

By: C S Forester

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Back Bay: 1990

Seller ID: 0147739

ISBN: 0316290467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters...
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The Tudor Secret

By: C W Gortner

Price: $7.99

Publisher: St Martin's: 2011

Seller ID: 0139079

ISBN: 0312603908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Bantam: 1995

Seller ID: 0004221

ISBN: 0553572997

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Step into another time--and unforgettable terror. The year is 1896. The city is New York. The hunt is on for a baffling new kind of criminal--a serial killer. A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.--Entertainment Weekly.
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The Italian Secretary

By: Caleb Carr

Price: $7.99

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2005

Seller ID: 0142241

ISBN: 0002007193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Shadow Of The Wind

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2004

Seller ID: 0052199

ISBN: 0143034901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

"Gabriel Garc a M rquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."--The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times Bestseller

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Juli n Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book ...
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The Prisoner Of Heaven

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 0148768

ISBN: 006220629X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zaf n creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

"Gabriel Garc a M rquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --New York Times Book Review on Shadow of the Wind
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A Sister's Shame

By: Carol Rivers

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2012

Seller ID: 0132005

ISBN: 147113878X

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

The Hidden Diary Of Marie Antoinette

By: Carolly Erickson

Price: $8.98

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin: 2005

Seller ID: 0037484

ISBN: 0312361505

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life--from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution.

Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mob brok...
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The Tsarina's Daughter

By: Carolly Erickson

Price: $8.98

Publisher: St Martin's: 2008

Seller ID: 0121713

ISBN: 0312551223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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Category: Historical Fiction