Fiction : Historical

An action thriller, which tells a multi-layered story that spans eight centuries, from medieval Germany and Prussia to the contemporary Poland and USA centred on the legend of the Amber Knight - a beloved relic that inspired generations until the Nazis stole it. more...

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Marco, freedman of the elite Claudian family, becomes involved in a political scheme that threatens the Emperor's throne. Forced into the Roman Legion, he is posted in Judea. When he is reunited with his mistress, now wife to Pontius Pilate, he must choose between loyalty to Rome and the truth. more...

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Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England. Tradescant's talents soon come to the attention of Duke of Buckingham, the lover of King Charles I. Tradescant has always been faithful to his masters, but Buckingham is unlike any he has ever known: flamboyant, outrageously charming, and utterly reckless. Every certainty upon which Tradescant has based his life -- his love of his wife and children, his passion for his work, his loyalty to his country -- is shattered as he follows Buckingham to court, to war, and to the forbidden territories of human love. From the details of garden design and innovation to the politics of a growing revolution which was to kill a king and turn a world upside down, Philippa Gregory once again makes history come alive through the people whose passions shaped that world. more...

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A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord -- who must defy society to keep her safe. . .and overcome a tragic past to claim her as his own. more...

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Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience as The Touch. At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia .. more...

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