Historical 94

Before the Civil War winds to an end, Lieutenant David Wharram rides west to begin a new life and eventually reaches Laramie, Wyoming. With saloons and brothels as the town’s thriving businesses, th……続きを見る

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now* The sixth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. As seen on Netflix and ……続きを見る

The Pursuit is an historic novel set in the Scottish Highlands during autumn of 1765, recounting a dramatic week in the life of two young men, Charles Macrae a mercenary returning from the European ……続きを見る

"I am Gastien Beauchamp, artist and lover. Any Frenchman would tell you that a peasant could never own property in nineteenth century France. Yet here I am, in my very own studio. The personal cost ……続きを見る

A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies. Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a d……続きを見る

Lady Violet Flowers has only one Season to find a husband. Raised in the Queen’s household, Violet is elevated in rank, yet overlooked by society for having no dowry. Violet is petrified she’ll brin……続きを見る

Stolen in Paris: The Lost Chronicles hits home with the teenage genius search for truth in all of us. Ernest Hemingway's first wife lost a suitcase full of prized manuscripts on a trip home from Par……続きを見る

The nineteenth century springs to life as Elizabeth Fitzgerald defies society's rules and defines a woman's role. Reporting tragedy and triumph she will move you to laughter and to tears.続きを見る

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual my……続きを見る

It's disgraceful how St. Louis's orphans are treated. And Mary Randolph plans to do something about it. She's lost her faith, but she still has compassion and a drive to help innocents in need. If s……続きを見る

First published in 2005, this story tells how in the years before the French Revolution, London is an unsettled, dangerous place: the scene of an exquisite, thrilling tale of revelation and revenge.……続きを見る

Trailblazer is a novel based on the lives and times of the author’s great grandparents and their family. From their farm in Scotland in 1851 they migrate to South Australia by sailing ship, Join the……続きを見る

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mix……続きを見る

Since my return from Australia, I have been solicited by a number of friends to give them a history of my adventures in that land of gold, where kangaroos are supposed to be as plenty as natives, an……続きを見る

In Creekside, dedicated archaeologist Meg Harrington guides her students in a race against time to protect the legacy of the past before bulldozers rip it to shreds. The setting is a Kentucky pastur……続きを見る

Reviews: ENTHRALLING AND DELIGHTFUL...RICH AND COMPELLING...What might at first have seemed a gently paced coming-of-age story turns into a rambunctious tale.” ーThe Christian Science Monitor “With ……続きを見る

The Phantom of Greatness is part of a four part series which encompasses the history of Korea from the 1940 invasion by Japan to the present. In the first volume, Mija, a Korean girl and Ichiro, a J……続きを見る

Mark Twain Lecture, Melbourne, Oct., 1895 MARCUS CLARKE I not only regret, but feel surprised that the 'Selected Works' of Australia's only literary geniusーa genius such as you will not see again f……続きを見る

The school of St Margaret's Hospital was fortunate in its lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence, or Forensic Medicine, as it is sometimes described. At some schools the lecturer on this subject is appoi……続きを見る

I write in retrospect, from the vantage of a distant shore. Flame-haired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, eighteen-year-old Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parentsーsolitary glassmaker Le……続きを見る

Mark Twain (or Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born on 30th Nov, 1835 and died on 21st April,1910. He was an American author and humourist. His famous works include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876……続きを見る

Illusory tales of New World wonderments provide a spine-chilling backdrop for an exhilarating adventure of a one-armed boy searching the great unknown for the Jesuit priest who had taken him into ……続きを見る

This squaw's got Slocum running from both sides of the law! A spunky squaw makes the injured Slocum an offer he can't refuse: her very special care for his protection against the angry Cayuse braves……続きを見る

Officially a Western farmer with his very own quarter section, in this second book of the Godfrey series, twenty-one year old Godfrey Leduc must endure the many trials and tribulations of starting l……続きを見る

As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to ……続きを見る

This haunting short story illustrates the scandalous circumstances surrounding Ethelred's rise to power at the age of eleven, and shows why the entire reign of so-called "Ethelred the Unready" seems……続きを見る

A body hangs from a birch tree in Lester Park, Duluth, Minnesota, 1918. How is the passing of one seemingly inconsequential Finnish dockworker tied to the turbulent times; an era of labor unrest, ra……続きを見る

“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”ーEmma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatr……続きを見る

This captivating and compelling East End saga, set in the run up to World War Two, is just what fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Donna Douglas will love. Written in the evocative style we've c……続きを見る

'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...' One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 19……続きを見る