MICHAELS, FERN

Captive Secrets

Sutton, Surrey, Severn House. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727849395). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped and is in a protective cover. First UK edition. Twenty years before, Sirena, the Sea Siren, rode the high seas - a ruthless, beautiful she-pirate commanding a frigate as black as night, plundering the ships of the Dutch East India Company. Now, the infamous Sea Siren rides the waves again, but she is an impostor: Fury van der Rhys knows - because she is Sirena's own daughter. Brandishing her mother's sword, she sets sail for the coast of Africa to challenge the gorgeous, evil hearted pretender, Amalie. Set in the 17th century. Fern Michaels is the pen name of Mary Ruth Kuczkir an American author. D4E. Near Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 007102

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 17th Century Female Pirates in Fiction, Java, Sirena, Fury Van Der Rhys, Dutch East India Company 0727849395

MICKLEM, SARAH

Firethorn

London, HarperCollins. 2005, First. (ISBN: 0007203969). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked opy which has a little foxing to closed edges withnear Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 383 pages. Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a more tolerable existence than that of most drudges. Beaten rarely and fed well, Firethorn is even permitted to learn herb lore, under the Dame's watchful eye. But her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies, and the Dame's nephew arrives to claim his inheritance. D4B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011501

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0007203969

MITTON, G.E.

Hawk of the Desert

London, Grayson & Grayson. 1925. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with some fading to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally some foxing to endpapers and closed edges else clean and unmarked. A Good + copy. Not dated but The British Library cites this as 1925 (first published by John Murray, 1917). A novel set in Egypt and the Sudan and a search for a kidnapped band of English by the author Geraldine Edith Mitton, afterwards Lady Scott, wife of Sir George Scott the colonial administrator. VERY SCARCE 11. Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 002010

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Egypt, Sudan, Lady Scott, Geraldine Edith Mitton

MONSARRAT, NICHOLAS

The Master Mariner - Book 1 Running Proud

London, Cassell. 1978, First. (ISBN: 0304296090). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has an inscription to front endpaper and minor bumps to lower corner tips with VG dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 524 pages. For 25 years Nicholas Monsarrat has lived with a dream: a dream to stretch a novelist's imagination to the limit - of one man living the hazardous life of a British seaman through four centuries of our mariyime history - from the Spanish Armada until today. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST A1D. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011269

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0304296090

MOORE, VIVIANE

Blue Blood - a Medieval Mystery

London, Victor Gollancz. 2000, First. (ISBN: 0575068205). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not pice-clipped. 215 pages. Translated from the French by Rory Mulholland. Chartres, 1145. Ten years earlier, a fire believed to be deliberate, destroyed the town and the culprit has still not been traced. The Chevalier Galeran de Lesnevan, summoned by the Count of Blois to investigate a new mystery, uses the opportunity to visit his old friend Audouard, a master glazier, in Chartres on the way. When a murdered body is discovered in the river, a series of events leads Galeran to believe that the perpetrator of the fire is still at large in the area. While hundreds of master craftsmen, artisans and workers painstakingly rebuild the cathedral for the glory of God, he lives among them in an attempt to solve the mystery. A compelling and atmospheric story of bloody revenge. 1. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 011215

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0575068205

MURRELL, SHIRLEY

The Man from Martinique

London, White Lion Publishers. 1957, First Edition. (ISBN: 0856179035). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. On the island of Martinique in 1902 something terrible was threatening. The natives, with their legacy of primitive instinct, sensed it; the learned M. Landes, with his scientific training, was aware of it; Helen, with her strange gift of foresight, could feel it. But those in authority tried to pretend that the danger didn't exist, until Ascension Day and the holocaust in which 30,000 lives were lost. SCARCE B2E. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 004382

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Island of Martinique 0856179035

D'ORMESSON, JEAN

The Glory of the Empire

London, George Allen and Unwin. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0048231193). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with a little bumping to corner tips. Internally clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with some creasing and chipping with a few closed tears. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. An historical novel spanning the centuries and recapturing the style and manner of the great historians, filled with legend and adventure, philosophy and warpassion and poetry and scholarship. It's principal and rival families the Porphyries and the Venostae. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.86 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST NOT A BOOK CLUB COPY 12. Very Good/Good.

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N° du livre: 002432

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0048231193

PALLISER, MARCUS

Matthew's Prize -

London, William Heinemann. 1999, First. (ISBN: 0434007617). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTINGThe author's FIRST NOVEL. Sub-titled 'Being the tale of a Whitby orphan boy's longing to navigate the broad seas' of advenrurous voyages aboard fighting ships; of commerce and the profits of greed; of a young man's loves, his losses, and a quest for tye truth. An historical novel set in England in the 1690's with the Dutch trade wars coming to a close but the struggles with the French for naval supremacy just beginning, It is the time of Newton, of advances in astronomy and the study of longitude. Matthew Stalbone longs to go to sea in command of his own sailing ship and studying the new science of navigation is his only means of escape from the Whitby coal wharves, but his dream of plying an honest trade is wrecked on the Essex shoals. Swept away to the Spanish Main, Matthew is plunged into a bloody life of pillage and prize money, lawless privateers, fierce sea battles, ruthless slave traders all combine to make a story of high adventure. 13. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011238

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, 17th Century England 0434007617

PARRY, OWEN

Honor's Kingdom

New York, William Morrow. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0060186348). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine unmarked copy which has one very small bump to lower front board. Dustjacket has a little creasing to top and is not price clipped. An historical novel set at the time of the American Civil War and the death of a lowly man of the cloth in London attracts an unaccountable amount of attention. The Union's representative to Britain, the son and grandson of US presidents, seeks to block Confederate agents acquiring warships for their navy. Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a Confederate agent or a ghost from his bloody past in India or both. 14. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 002333

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: American CIVIL War 0060186348

PENTON, BRIAN

Landtakers - the Story of an Epoch

London, Cassell. 1935, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. Red title on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked although there is very light fading to spine. Internally very clean and unmarked. The Australian author and journalist's novel of mid 19th century Australia and the Moreton Bay Irish immigrant settlement. NOT EX LIB 3. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 001918

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Australia, Irish Immigrants, Moreton Bay Settlement

PLAIDY, JEAN

The Heart of the Lion

London, Robert Hale. 1979. (ISBN: 0709152833). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Biro, B.S. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a bump to one lower corner tip else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket, by Biro, is also near Fine. The third volume in the Plantagenet Saga. Henry II was dead and his son Richard had come to the throne. He had vowed to win back Jerusalem for the Christian world and was ready to place his kingdom in jeopardy to fulfil that vow even though his treacherous brother John was casting covetous eyes on his crown. Text decorations by B.S. Biro. NOT EX LIB 20. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007038

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Plantagenets, King Richard, Berengaria, Queen Eleanor, Acre, Malek Adel 0709152833 Biro, B.S.

PLAIDY, JEAN

Rose without a Thorn

London, Robert Hale. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709051840). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little light foxing to top edge) with VG dustjacket. The eleventh novel in the Queens of England series. The 'Rose without a thorn' was the name given by Henry VIII to his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, when he was a devoted and uxorious husband. Born to an impoverished branch of the Howard family, Katherine was, at an early age, taken into the household of her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who neglected her upbringing. 255 pages. She planned an idyllic future with her kinsman, Thomas Culpepper, who gained her affection, and this was a possibility, until she was given a place at Court in the new Queen's household, and there she was noticed by the King. NOT EX LIB D4F. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 008775

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Henry VIII, Katherine Howard, Henry Manox, Francis Derham, Thomas Culpepper, Duke of Norfolk 0709051840

PLAMPIN, MATTHEW

The Street Philosopher

London, Harper Collins. 2009, First. (ISBN: 9780007272433). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 487 pages. 150 years ago Britain was engaged in a war unpopular at home... Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war; men are starving, disease is rife, supplies are scarce and, as the armies assemble for bloody conflict, the last thing the commanding officers want is a newspaperman getting in the way, asking difficult questions. But Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the dubious tutelage of his flamboyant senior colleague Cracknell, and assisted by a young, idealistic illustrator, he sets about exposing the incompetence and corruption of those in control of the campaign. Then all three men are witness to an act of brutal treachery, and their atempts to redress injustice fall on deaf ears. Kitson returns to England, desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea and, fleeing to Manchester, he takes up the only position on offer, becoming a 'street philosopher', reporting on local news. But the past is catching up with him.. A1C. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 011008

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Crimean War, Sebastopol, Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition 9780007272433

DU PONT, DIANE

The French Passion

London, Macdonald. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0354047823). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG + complete dustjacket which has some fading. The author is a Professor of History and this is her First Novel. Set in the time of the French Revolution, it recounts the story of Manon D'Epinay, whose destiny was to become the wife of her powerful guardian, the Comte de Crequi, but on the dark road to Paris her future is shattered by a violent, passionate encounter with the mysterious leader of a gang of peasant revolutionaries. She cannot escape the terrors and faces entombment in the Bastille and it is only a matter of time before the shadow of Madame Guillotine tests her love and courage to the limit. A novel rich in authentic historical detail. NOT BOOK CLUB D4B. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003684

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, French Revolution , Madame D'Epinay, Comte de Crequi 0354047823

POSSE, ABEL

The Dogs of Paradise

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1990, First. (ISBN: 0241129346). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy which has a small indentation to lower front board and a name and date to front endpaper else unmarked. Dustjcket has fading to spine, a little wear to top edges and is not price-clipped. 303 pages. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Translated frome the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A marvellous Latin-American novel about the discovery of the Americas, which won the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Prize for the best novel written in Spanish over the previous five years. Set in Fifteenth Century Spain and the New World and focuses on the conquest of Latin-America and the abuse of its inhabitants by the Spanish in subsequent centuries. D4E. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011460

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Discovery of the Americas, Spanish Conquistadors, 15th Century Spain 0241129346