eBook Only / Historical Fiction
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Nov 2016£7.99
A grisly murder. A vanishing corpse. A secret romance. A ghostly tale. An innocent accused. 1588. It is a dark and turbulent time. Scotland’s queen has been executed, the Spanish king seeks revenge, and the people of St Andrews cling desperately...
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E-Book | Pub: 18 Apr 2013£4.99
Patrick Paniter was James IV’s right-hand man, a diplomatic genius who was in charge of the guns at the disastrous battle of Flodden in September 1513 in which the English annihilated the Scots. After the death of his king he is tormented by...
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E-Book | Pub: 16 Apr 2015£4.99
Russia, 1943. A girl from Leningrad, a soldier from Venice, stand together on the edge of wilderness. He is a shadow of a man, trapped behind wire, an enemy in her land. She takes something from her pocket, slips her hand through the wire, and...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£6.99
Early fifth century AD. The Western Roman Empire has been overrun by German tribes. Too weak to expel them, the Imperial government has been forced to grant federate status to the invaders. Aetius, the last of the great Roman generals, becomes the...
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E-Book | Pub: 16 Jun 2015£4.99Dacre’s War is a story of personal and political vengeance. Ten years after the battle of Flodden, Adam Crozier, head of his clan and of an increasingly powerful alliance of Borderers, learns for sure that it was Lord Thomas Dacre – now...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Feb 2013£4.99
Europe is marching blindly into the First World War and Berlin is in a storm of nationalist marches and army recruitment. Albert Einstein anticipates the carnage to come when his university colleagues begin work on poison gas to ‘shorten the...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1581, Edinburgh. Running from his new responsibilities as head of the family in St Andrews, young lawyer Hew Cullan arrives in the vibrant capital of medieval Scotland. There he plans to publish his late father’s book and quietly endure the...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2014£3.99
St Andrews, 1583, and tensions are running high. Dissension rages between King and councillors, and between separate factions of the Kirk. Hew Cullan is called to investigate a mysterious incident, and finds suspicion falling upon him as he is...
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E-Book | Pub: 21 Jan 2014£4.99
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023£7.99
Immerse Yourself in the Past From the 1500s to the Second World War, discover the stories of history like never before with our bumper historical fiction subscription bundle. Escape into a different time and place with ingenious mysteries, high...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1579, St Andrews. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer, returns home from studying in Paris. But it proves to be a cold homecoming as Hew’s friend, university regent Nicholas Colp, is accused of murdering a thirteen-year-old boy. The boy was a private...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£4.99
‘An exuberant and discursive historical novel, crammed with fascinating detail’ – The Independent 11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna,...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£4.99
Against a tumultuous backdrop of earthquakes, plague and civil unrest Emperor Justinian I is determined to take back the lost Western Roman Empire from the Vandals and the Goths. At any cost. Born an illiterate peasant’s son, he rose to become the...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Jun 2013£5.99
It is the third summer of the war, June 1863, and Robert Lee’s Confederate Army slips across the Potomac to draw out the Union Army. Lee’s army is 70,000 strong and has won nearly every battle it has fought. The Union Army is 80,000...
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E-Book | Pub: 09 Aug 2016£0.99
Lammas is the third instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. Lammas day, a day of celebration for some. Elspet, a serving girl at the harbour inn has been told for...
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E-Book | Pub: 21 Jan 2014£4.99
The Last Full Measure resonates with the bloody Battle of the Wilderness, after which rivers ran red for days with the blood of the wounded and dead; the destruction of the Stonewall Brigade at Spotsylvania; the Union Army disaster at Cold Harbor;...
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E-Book | Pub: 04 Nov 2016£0.99
Martinmas is the fourth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. In St Salvator’s college at the start of the academic year a young student claims that he...
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E-Book | Pub: 17 Sep 2015£3.99
1587. After three long years, exiled from home and family, and drawn into the depths of the London underworld under the tutelage of Elizabeth I’s spymaster Francis Walsingham, Hew returns to Scotland with his new English wife, Frances. The...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£4.99July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani – once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King – mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the...
