Historical fiction
Results 1701 - 1720 of 1879
Historical fiction
Paperback. A reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to the Emperor Constantine's triumph in Rome. It summons up the Roman world of two thousand years ago, the everyday life of soldiers on campaign and the intrigues at court. It tells the many-faceted story of Constantine's loss of faith in God and in human love. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287292
- ISBN
- 9780099287292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.11
€ 17.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. Translator(s): Geddes, Tom. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530789
- ISBN
- 9780714530789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.18
€ 10.18
Paperback. "A man is the sum of his misfortunes." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Editor(s): Gorra, Michael. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSK; FC; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393912692
- ISBN
- 9780393912692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.21
€ 19.99
€ 18.21
Paperback. Continuing the tumultuous story of TheCousins War, Philippa tells the tale of a young mother's determined ambition for her son - soon to be Henry VII Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847394651
- ISBN
- 9781847394651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.90
€ 13.99
€ 9.90
Paperback. Walter Hartwright is married, prosperous and a little bored. When he is approached to write a life of the painter Turner he accepts, unaware that his subject lived a life more dark than light. Researching the painter's life, he is soon affected with its possibilities of violence and even murder that he no longer trusts his own sanity and character. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0005851
- ISBN
- 9780571202768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Following Madame Tussaud, Michelle Moran continues the story of France with a depiction of life in Napoleon's court. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256. Very good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Light sticker wear on back cover, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0004679
- ISBN
- 9780857388629
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The unsolved riddle at the heart of style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pudd'nhead Wilson> is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059832
- ISBN
- 9780674059832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.37
€ 35.99
€ 30.37
Paperback. Isabella is flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III. Blanche of Castile is the serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX. The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen. Series: Plantagenet Saga. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344. DIASPORA
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099510260
- ISBN
- 9780099510260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.08
€ 12.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham.. Series: Henrietta Lightfoot. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001759
- ISBN
- 9780552162517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The three great-nephews of cantankerous mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099474371
- ISBN
- 9780099474371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000988
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Number of pages
- 304
- SKU
- KOG0001797
- ISBN
- 9781782396826
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469015
- ISBN
- 9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. Longing for real life to begin, Christopher makes for Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784705916
- ISBN
- 9781784705916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160739
- ISBN
- 9781784160739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
€ 11.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Series: The Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405921497
- ISBN
- 9781405921497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749399573
- ISBN
- 9780749399573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Series: The Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780718196424
- ISBN
- 9780718196424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak; Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover; and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home. Can these three women ever let go of the past? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FJMF; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552779463
- ISBN
- 9780552779463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
€ 11.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099474432
- ISBN
- 9780099474432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70