SEVERIN, TIM

Corsair

London, Macmillan. 2007. (ISBN: 9781405088886). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 347 pages. Second printing. 1677 - snatched from an Irish village by Barbary corsairs, a 17 year old Hector Lynch is sold at auction in Algiers. Befriended by fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, he finds himself in a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive. To escape the horrors of the slave barracks, the two friends convert to Islam; then, serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea. By a savage twist of fortune they are condemned to further slavery - this time for their Christian masters, when they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley with vagabonds and convicts for company. Throughout his ordeal Hector is driven by the need to find out what happened to his sister, Elisabeth, who was also kidnapped by the corsairs. He learns the chilling truth when he and his colourful band of brothers are shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco. 22. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 008367

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Hector Lynch, Algiers, Miskito Indian, French Galley, 17th Century Seafaring, Historical Fiction 9781405088886

SHANNON, DORIS

Hawthorn Hill

London, Collins. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002222795). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which has a small closed tear at top of spine and is not price clipped. An historical novel set in the 18th century pastoral England and France at the time of the Revolution involving witchcraft and suspense. Because of her fathers financial ruin the heroine is forced to leave her home in England to take up a position as governess in France to the children of a cruel Count in his mysterious chateau near Nantes where she encounters bizarre members of his household. C3A. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001831

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 18th Century England and France, French Revolution, Witchcraft 0002222795

SHERIDAN, JANE

Damaris

London, Collins. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002221632). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is the pseudonym of Pauline Glen Winslow. Damaris St. Cloud was the toast of Regency London, but the young and lovely wife of the ageing Earl of Malfrey was so circumspect that they called her 'the cool countess'. Suddenly scandal erupted which took Damaris post haste to a Brussels rife with rumour in the aftermath of Waterloo, and then on an eventful voyage to the New World, where she found her fortunes linked to those of a self-centred adventurer. The aristocratic beauty was not welcome in a puritanical New England township, yet her charm soon won all hearts. NOT EX LIB C3A. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007606

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Pauline Glen Winslow, Historical Fiction, New England, Regency Period 0002221632

SMITH, LADY ELEANOR

Tzigane

London, Tom Stacey. 1973. (ISBN: 0854683364). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A reprint of the 1933 first edition. A novel about gypsies, acrobats and tumblers travelling through Southern Europe and North Africa and the annual gathering of gypsies in the Camargue. The author Eleanor Furneaux Smith, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead, was brought up as a child in France and outside Brussels and was introduced to the people of the fairground and later went on tour with a circus. 2. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 004452

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Gipsies, Gypsy's, Camargue, Flamenco 0854683364

SMITH, LADY ELEANOR

Tzigane

London, Tom Stacey. 1973. (ISBN: 0854683364). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A ery Good unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. A reprint of the 1933 first edition. A novel about gypsies, acrobats and tumblers travelling through Southern Europe and North Africa and the annual gathering of gypsies in the Camargue. The author Eleanor Furneaux Smith, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead, was brought up as a child in France and outside Brussels and was introduced to the people of the fairground and later went on tour with a circus. 1. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011253

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Gipsies, Gypsy's, Camargue, Flamenco 0854683364

SOMERLOTT, ROBERT

Death of the Fifth Sun

London, Hutchinson. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 009173441x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy in a VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in Aztec Mexico, of Malinche, sold into prostitution by her mother, she learned quickly about the world, but nothing could have prepared her for the arrival of the Plumed Serpent - Cortes, the conquistador, destroyer of the centuries' old pagan Aztec order and creator of an equally bloody New World. Malinche would become Cortes's interpreter, his confidante, his lover, and would even fight beside him in battle. She would live to be cursed by her own people but Malinche, the Indian, would share a passionate destiny, where an empire was won with sword, gun, horse and implacable ruthless ambition. 13. Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003393

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Aztec, Mexico, Malinche, Cortes, Plumed Serpent, Conquistador 009173441x

STEEN, MARGUERITE

Twilight on the Floods

London, Collins. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards, spine faded with gilt still bright and boards clean and unmarked. Internally there is a contemporary inscription to front endpaper and light foxing to endpapers else very clean and unmarked. A novel by the dancer, actress and English teacher, wife of William Nicholson the painter. The 704 page novel covers Bristol, Guerdon and the Gold Coast in the 1890's of voyages, the Ashanti war, missionaries and more. The best novel by the author in very good condition. C3C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 001012

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Bristol, Gold Coast, Ashanti War, Slave Trade, London

THORN, MICHAEL

Pen Friends (Signed Copy)

London, Macmillan. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333455681). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A Very Good+ copy with light age darkening to page edges and evidence of erased 3 words (By Aug 12) to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is also VG+ and complete. An historical fiction which chronicles the friendship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based on a meeting in 1850 in Massachusetts where they were neighbours for a year. The book develops the two main characters through the history of their domestic lives and the last scenes are played out on the sands at Southport and at Liverpool pierhead. C3A. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 004453

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction 0333455681

THURLEY, JON

Household Gods

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241123275). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age darkening to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel of a middle aged barrister who finds himself preoccupied with the mystery of his father's disappearance in Pakistan in 1947. Seeking symbols to explain his own childhood, he comes to see the household gods - the crow and the snake - as representations of the warring factions in his family. He returns there to confront the past. A realistic novel, based on the author's own background, which recreates the partition of India into Pakistan and Hindustan in 1947, the assassination of Gandhi and the civil war and rioting. 13. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 002881

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: India, Pakistan, Hindustan 0241123275

WARNER, MARINA

The Leto Bundle

London, Chatto and Windus. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701169206). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, FirstPrinting. 408 pages. Room XIX of the Museum of Albion doesn't usually receive many visitors, but one day a crowd of immigrants and homeless gather and demand to see a mummy that has been recently removed. As political pressure builds, the curator unpacks the tomb and begins to explore its bizarre contents, for herself and for the passionate young man who has adopted the mummy as the figurehead of his movement. It contains a bundle of curious objects and documents: they tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. As Leto moves gradually westwards across the map from her childhood home, she slips through time. On the run, in a far off era of civil strife, she gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a chambermaid in a wartorn city. During a long siege she manages to save her daughter but loses her son. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages, to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe, and into the present day, Leto reappears, with her daughter Phoebe, in different guises, and she begins to search for her son. NOT EX LIB L. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 007771

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction 0701169206

WILE, MARY LEE

Ancient Rage

New York, Larson Publications. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0943914701). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Set nine years after the death of John the Baptist, where John's mother, Elizabeth, can no longer contain her rage at what happened to John and Jesus. Unable to make sense of it, striving in vain to hear God's voice for herself instead of taking her son or husband's word, the widowed Elizabeth pours out her heart to Mary in the desert wilderness chosen for her final days. A powerful novel timely for women's issues in Christian, Jungian, and New Age circles, and will be helpful in reclaiming the creative and spiritual energies women have traditionally channeled through men and seeing how women carry one another through times of intolerable grief. D4E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 005042

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Religious Fiction, Womens Spiritual 0943914701

WOOD, CHRISTOPHER

John Adam - Samurai

London, Arlington. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0851401937). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. 192 pages. It is 16 and when John Adam, a randy 20 year-old, escapes the hangman's noose, he is naturally anxious to put a few miles between himself and his native Plymouth. Confusing the ships in harbour, he stows away on a vessel bound for India, Java and Japan and finds himself amongst as villainous a crew as ever set sail under the flag of the East India Company. Surviving a treacherous attack by an armoured pirate junk, he is hurled overboard in a typhoon and washed up on the volcanic beach of a small island off Japan. Here, as he regains consciousness, he sees a beautiful native girl taking a sand bath only a few yards away. Somi, daughter of a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and his Japanese mistress, is at first terrified by his appearance, but helps Adam to the cliffside cave and nurses him back to his normal state of rude good health. On an 'exploratory' mission away from the caves, they witness the ambush of Kushoni, a lone Samurai and John Adam goes to the aid of the attacked man. This encounter launches him on a series of fantastic adventures amongst the warring feudal lords and their Samurai followers. His adventure is as if Tom Jones had found himself in a version of King Solomon's Mines written by a 17th century Frank Harris. SCARCE 1. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 009905

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: John Adam 0851401937

WORBOYES, SALLY

Keep on Dancing

London, Headline. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747220670). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with no wear or damage with a little age toning to fore edge. Pictorial dustjacket has a little creasing to top and is not price clipped VG+. First Edition, First Printing. An East End saga of courage, grit and humour which is a vivid portrayal of 1950's London's East End. NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK D4B. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001704

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: East End of London, 1950's 0747220670

WRIGHT, DAPHNE

The Distant Kingdom

London, Michael Joseph. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718128168). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy which has usual age toning of page edges with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in Afghanistan in the 1830's, of a beautiful but terrifying kingdom. Bereft, burdened with an unhappy secret and full of self-doubt, Perdita Whitney sails for India in 1836 to live with the father she hardly remembers.She falls in love and marries the most sought after man in Simla, Lord Beaminster but within two years she and Lord Beaminster are embroiled in war in Afghanistan. A FIRST NOVEL by this English writer. C3D. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001741

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 19th Century Afghanistan and India, Simla, Lord Beaminster, Perdita Whitney 0718128168