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Revenger - Exclusive Numbered Edition of 250 copies
Author: Rory Clements
Price: £25.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 29 April 2010
Synopsis
1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen E ... read more
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Author: Jack Hight
Price: £19.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 27 May 2010
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The year is 1453. For more than a thousand years the mighty walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman E ... read more
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Author: James Jackson
Price: £12.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 10 June 2010
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1588. In Lisbon the great Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Along the coast of the Low Countries, the army of the Duke of Parma ... read more
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£14.99
Author: Rory Clements
Price: £14.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 29 April 2010
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1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen E ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£12.99
Author: L. R. Fredericks
Price: £12.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 19 August 2010
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FARUNDELL is a story of magical awakening as a young man searches for meaning in the aftermath of the First World War, a young girl comes o ... read more
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£75.00
Author: Rory Clements
Price: £75.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 11 June 2009
Synopsis
England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to av ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Ebb Tide: A Nathaniel Drinkwater novel
Author: Richard Woodman
Price: £20.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 18 June 1998
Synopsis
It is 1843, and Captain Sir Nathaniel Drinkwater, bowed with age and honours, embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lightho ... read more
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£35.00
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Price: £35.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 14 May 2009
Synopsis
The latest in Gyles Brandreth’s acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. ... read more
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£75.00
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Price: £75.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 01 May 2008
Synopsis
‘I see murder in this unhappy hand...’ When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde’s palm she ca ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Emilio Calderón
Price: £16.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 03 July 2008
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Rome, October 1952. The architect Jos Maria Hurtado and his wife Montserrat open their newspaper to find that their friend Prince Junio Viv ... read more
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Author: Michael Arnold
Price: £29.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 19 August 2010
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Once seen in the heat of battle, Captain Stryker is never forgotten. A hardened veteran of the wars in the Low Countries, he has come home to E ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Declan Hughes
Price: £16.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 03 April 2008
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Even the best private eye needs more than a name to find a missing person, but that’s all that Father Vincent Tyrrell, the brother of pro ... read more
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£18.99
Author: Andrew Williams
Price: £18.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 08 July 2010
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St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the mêlé ... read more
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Author: Rory Clements
Price: £17.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 11 July 2013
Synopsis
From Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, comes THE HERETICS, the fifth in his acclaimed John Shakespeare Elizab ... read more
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Author: Andrew Williams
Price: £17.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 08 January 2009
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Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitle ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Jaqueline Winspear
Price: £12.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 13 February 2006
Synopsis
Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, has handled many difficult cases since she opened her office in Fitzroy Square, London. But few re ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£15.00
Author: Jaqueline Winspear
Price: £15.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 01 January 2006
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London, 1931. Nick Bassington-Hope, veteran of the Great War and controversial artist, is suddenly found dead. His death from a fall, the night ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
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Author: Jaqueline Winspear
Price: £14.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 05 July 2004
Synopsis
Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
Author: Beatrice Colin
Price: £25.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 07 August 2008
Synopsis
As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orpha ... read more
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Author: Amitav Ghosh
Price: £150.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 01 May 2008
Synopsis
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£45.00
Author: Lloyd Jones
Price: £45.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 14 June 2007
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‘You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to ... read more
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Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Price: £19.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 28 October 2010
Synopsis
The fourth of Gyles Brandreth’s acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of ... read more
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£150.00
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Price: £150.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 10 January 2008
Synopsis
London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Ye ... read more
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£300.00
The Meaning of Night: A Confession - LIMITED LEATHERBOUND EDITION
Author: Michael Cox
Price: £300.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 07 September 2006
Synopsis
A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, ... read more
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Eagle - SIGNED, DATED, STAMPED & NUMBERED (X/100)
Author: Jack Hight
Price: £24.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 17 March 2011
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Salah ad-Din, or Saladin as he is known to the Franks, was a Kurd, the son of a despised people, and yet he became Sultan of Egypt and Syri ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
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Author: Ann Featherstone
Price: £17.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 02 September 2010
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A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill’s young son Barney is i ... read more
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Author: Aly Monroe
Price: £24.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 05 November 2009
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September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington to beg for a loan. Under cover of the backup ... read more
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Author: Aly Monroe
Price: £45.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 13 November 2008
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Peter Cotton, a young Intelligence officer is sent to Spain in September 1944. The war in Europe is drawing to a close; formerly neutral Franco ... read more
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Prince - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Rory Clements
Price: £29.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 12 May 2011
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Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's ... read more
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Author: Michael Arnold
Price: £24.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 18 August 2011
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England stands divided: king against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, sc ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Peter Snow
Price: £25.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 16 September 2010
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The story of the men who fought their way across Europe to topple Napoleon told by those who were there. What made Arthur Duke of Wellington ... read more
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Author: Amitav Ghosh
Price: £20.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 09 June 2011
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SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a ... read more
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Author: Rory Clements
Price: £19.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 12 May 2011
Synopsis
The field of the historical crime thriller was once an under-visited one, with only the occasional unusual entry making a mark. But how times h ... read more
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£26.99
Author: Aly Monroe
Price: £26.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 13 October 2011
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1947. Threadbare London endures the bleakest, coldest winter for decades. Food rationing is worse than during the war. Coal supplies run out. T ... read more
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Author: Rory Clements
Price: £35.00
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 12 April 2012
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The Elizabethan navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop a ... read more
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Kingdom (Saladin 2) - SIGNED, STAMPED & NUMBERED EDITION (x/100)
Author: Jack Hight
Price: £26.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 31 July 2012
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1164. The young warrior Saladin joins a Saracen army headed for Egypt. He finds there a land of wonders - from the ancient pyramids and the tow ... read more
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Author: James Jackson
Price: £29.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 05 January 2012
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Almost two hundred years have elapsed since the Crusader armies took Jerusalem. Now it is the turn of the Saracen to seek revenge and send an o ... read more
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Author: Aly Monroe
Price: £25.00
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 13 November 2008
Synopsis
Peter Cotton, a young Intelligence officer is sent to Spain in September 1944. The war in Europe is drawing to a close; formerly neutral Franco ... read more
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Assassin's Reign - SIGNED, LINED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Michael Arnold
Price: £17.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 04 July 2013
Synopsis
The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of B ... read more
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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Price: £18.99
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Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 25 October 2012
Synopsis
It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol ... read more
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Holy War (Saladin 3) - SIGNED, STAMPED & NUMBERED EDITION (x/100)
Author: Jack Hight
Price: £24.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 23 May 2013
Synopsis
In HOLY WAR, the final book of the Saladin Trilogy, telling the story of the legendary war leader who united Arabia, Saladin recaptures Jerusal ... read more
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Author: Aly Monroe
Price: £18.99
Published by: John Murray
Date Available: 23 May 2013
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From the author of ICELIGHT, winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, BLACK BEAR is the fourth in the critically acclaimed Pet ... read more
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The Eagle's Vengeance: Empire VI
by Anthony Riches
Synopsis
The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in ch ... read more
Release 22 August 2013
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-1444711905
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£14.99
The Amber Road (Warrior of Rome)
by Harry Sidebottom
Synopsis
Warrior of Rome: The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome series. AD 264 - The Roman Empire is torn in tw ... read more
Release 18 July 2013
Publisher Michael Joseph
ISBN 978-0718155957
Signed & Numbered First Edition (100) copies
UK First Edition / First Printing
£25.00
Blood Song: Number 1 in series (Raven's Shadow) - SIGNED, STAMPED & NUMBERED (x/100)
by Anthony Ryan
Synopsis
We have fought battles that left more than a hundred corpses on the ground and not a word of it has ever been set down. The Orde ... read more
Release 04 July 2013
Publisher Orbit
ISBN 978-0356502465#
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£12.99
The Falcons of Fire and Ice - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED
by Karen Maitland
Synopsis
Karen Maitland, the author of the hugely popular Company of Liars, has written a powerful historical thriller which takes you right back to the ... read more
Release 23 August 2012
Publisher Michael Joseph
ISBN 978-0718159962
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£14.99
Queen's Gambit - March 2013 Book of Month - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
by Elizabeth Fremantle
Synopsis
For fans of Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel, Quee ... read more
Release 14 March 2013
Publisher Michael Joseph
ISBN 978-0718177065
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£9.99
Cold Killing - SIGNED & DATED WITH SALUTATION
by Luke Delaney
Synopsis
Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark ... read more
Release 25 April 2013
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0007486069
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