Montfort (Monfort, #1) By Katherine Ashe

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Title	:	Montfort (Monfort, #1)
Author	:	Katherine Ashe
ISBN	:	143926466X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	332

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Simon begins his life in England as a callow and prudish youth who must win his family s lapsed earldom at King Henry s dissolute Court Soon Simon s pride and presumption are shattered as he first becomes obsessed with a passion for the young heretic Queen Eleanor, and then falls in love with a nun who is the King s sister High points a jousting tournament, the decadent Simon begins his life in England as a callow and prudish youth who must win his family More...

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Soldier Against the Odds By Lofty Large

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Title	:	Soldier Against the Odds
Author	:	Lofty Large
ISBN	:	1840183462
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Lofty Large has known the exhilaration of victory and the terrible despondency of defeat, the satisfaction of seeing his enemies go down and the horrific crash of bullets smashing into his own body In Soldier Against the Odds he discusses the paradox of army life, from the great parades with hundreds of marching troops, to the weeks and months of silent movement, every ne Lofty Large has known the exhilaration More...

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Izzy's War By Isla Dewar

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Title	:	Izzy's War
Author	:	Isla Dewar
ISBN	:	0091938120
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	512

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There was rapture in Izzy s life It came when she was flying She thought she could write a book about the things she d seen from above herds of deer, hundreds of them, rippling across hilltops, housespeople small as matchstick men Once, she d seen a couple entangled in their own not as private as they thought rapture on a sun soaked moor She was addicted to the a There was rapture in Izzy s life It came when she was flying She thought she could write a book about the things she d se More...

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Year of Wonders By Geraldine Brooks

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Title	:	Year of Wonders
Author	:	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	:	0142001430
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	308

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An unforgettable tale of a brave young woman during the plague in 17th century England from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March and The Secret Chord coming from Viking in October 2015 When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer Through Anna s eyes we follow An unforgettable tale of a brave More...

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Reprobates By John Stubbs

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Title	:	Reprobates
Author	:	John Stubbs
ISBN	:	0670917532
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	560

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John Stubbs s Reprobates charts the rise and fall of the Cavaliers before, during and after the English Civil War From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intriguing to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favour with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that were at the centre of the English Civil War Stubbs sh John Stubbs s Reprobates charts the rise and f More...

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Flauberts papegaai By Julian Barnes

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Title	:	Flauberts papegaai
Author	:	Julian Barnes
ISBN	:	9041330690
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	251

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De schrijver van een biografie van de Franse auteur Gustave Flaubert 1821 1880 gaat zijn boekje te buiten. More...

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The King's Favorite By Susan Holloway Scott

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Title	:	The King's Favorite
Author	:	Susan Holloway Scott
ISBN	:	045122406X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	427

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Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be Blessed with impudent wit and saucy beauty, she swiftly rises from the poverty of Covent Garden to become a sensation in the theater Still in her teens, she catches the eye of King Charles II, and trades the stage for Whitehall Palace and the role of royal mistress Even though she delights the king, she must le Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be Blessed with impudent wit a More...

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The London Novels By Colin MacInnes

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Title	:	The London Novels
Author	:	Colin MacInnes
ISBN	:	0749083689
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	248

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Bringing together three of Colin MacInnes finest works, this exciting omnibus explores a very different side of London life in the 1950s than is usually portrayed His characters are colourful and real, painting vivid pictures of areas such as Brixton and Notting Hill at this time The stories of friendship, love and growing up are set against a background of jazz and good Bringing together three of Colin MacInnes fine More...

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Mi Revalueshanary Fren By Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Title	:	Mi Revalueshanary Fren
Author	:	Linton Kwesi Johnson
ISBN	:	1931337292
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	96

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Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations few have communicated so intensively via performances and recordings, as often as not with integral musical settings and few have proved so effective politically a living modern classic for real London Magazine You can just hear the reggae drumbeat as his verse vacillates among f Few poets of the last thirty years have appr More...

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The Loves of Charles II (Stuart Saga, #2-4) By Jean Plaidy

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Title	:	The Loves of Charles II (Stuart Saga, #2-4)
Author	:	Jean Plaidy
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	608

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From princesses to country girls to actresses the loves of Charles II come to life.Ten years after Charles I was deposed and executed, his son, Charles II, regains the throne after many years in exile Charles is determined not only to restore the monarchy but also to revive a society that has suffered under many years of Puritan rule, when everything from theater to Chris From princesses to country girls to actresses More...

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The Emigrants By George Lamming

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Title	:	The Emigrants
Author	:	George Lamming
ISBN	:	0472064703
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	298

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A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people More...

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Flaubert's Parrot By Julian Barnes

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Title	:	Flaubert's Parrot
Author	:	Julian Barnes
ISBN	:	0679731369
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	190

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Flaubert s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imag Flaubert s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways with More...

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