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Historical fiction
Hardback. Billed as "a Taiwanese 'Gone With the Wind'", this story spans more than half a century of Taiwan's history, tracing the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan, to World War II. Translator(s): Liu, Taotao; Balcom, John. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122009
- ISBN
- 9780231122009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.01€ 78.05
€ 104.01
€ 78.05
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616201432
- ISBN
- 9781616201432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Telling the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. This novel provides an opportunity to explore the difficult moral positions of war, along with the complications of the Quaker family who hid and sheltered the boy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563246012
- ISBN
- 9781563246012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.78
€ 50.78
Paperback. In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change. Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an increase in commerce and the rapid swell of the population as workers flocked to the newly created jobs. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003077
- ISBN
- 9780571281855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 4.82
€ 11.99
€ 4.82
Paperback. At the behest of the French king an artist has journeyed from Italy to lead his school of students in the design and construction of a chateau in the Loire Valley. This novel tells the story of an enigmatic relationship between a 16th-century Italian painter and his servant. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001526
- ISBN
- 9780571210114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. While tending to his father's business affairs, John Lempriere, a young scholar, discovers a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 450. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002016
- ISBN
- 9780749398194
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 21. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250118165
- ISBN
- 9781250118165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.39
€ 18.99
€ 16.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780811225526
- ISBN
- 9780811225526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.22
€ 17.99
€ 17.22
Paperback. The fourth captivating installment in award-winning author Elizabeth Hoyt's Legend of the Four Soldiers sensual historical series. Series: Legend of the Four Soldiers. Num Pages: 384 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 109 x 26. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780446406949
- ISBN
- 9780446406949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.21
€ 10.21
Paperback. The second sensual historical romance in Hoyt's new Legend of the Four Soldiers series. Series: Legend of the Four Soldiers. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 108 x 28. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780446406925
- ISBN
- 9780446406925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.19
€ 10.19
Paperback. *A brilliant novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean war Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001493
- ISBN
- 9780349111698
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001345
- ISBN
- 9780749386252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A title that began as a vision the author had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000786
- ISBN
- 9780099480419
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years. Illustrator(s): Durer, Albrecht. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 49. Weight in Grams: 534. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000710
- ISBN
- 9780749398743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus' twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Series: Forgotten Legion Chronicles. Num Pages: 608 pages, map. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430. 596pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Edition
- First printing of this edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848090163
- ISBN
- 9781848090163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.29
€ 14.99
€ 11.29
Paperback. 'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin Series: The Accursed Kings. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007491346
- ISBN
- 9780007491346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.99
€ 12.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. 'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin Series: The Accursed Kings. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007491292
- ISBN
- 9780007491292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.35
€ 11.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. 'This is the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work. Series: The Accursed Kings. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007491261
- ISBN
- 9780007491261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.25
€ 13.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. * Drawing on the secrets, lives and affairs of two of the most famous and passionate figures of the 18th century - Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth - this is Michele Roberts most accessible and romantic novel to date Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KNH0012812
- ISBN
- 9781860497643
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Here, Evalina witnesses the events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616203801
- ISBN
- 9781616203801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.97
€ 19.99
€ 13.97