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Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities

By Christian Cameron - Published 2013

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This is the fifth novel in the author’s series set in the ancient world of Alexander the Great. Alexander himself is now ...Read Review

Herzl

By Shlomo Avineri - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

Theodor Herzl, even though he died at an early age in 1904, is widely considered to have been the main influencing force behind the ...Read Review

Red Nile:

By Robert Twigger - Published 2013

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Nonfiction

Twigger treats us to an entertaining and idiosyncratic journey from prehistoric and ancient times right up to the Arab Spring. This is a ...Read Review

Moryak

By Lee Mandel - Published 2013

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Literary

The Russian Revolution takes up a large portion of the novel it is also about the plight of Soviet Jews and the anti-Semitism ...Read Review

Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors

By Chris Skidmore - Published 2013

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Nonfiction

If there is only one thing known about the Wars of the Roses it’s that they’re very complicated! The period of ...Read Review

The Forbidden Queen

By Anne O’Brien - Published 2013

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Biographical Fiction

This superb novel tells the story of Katherine de Valois, whom history has by and far neglected. Katherine, the daughter of Charles VI ...Read Review

The Ill-Made Knight

By Christian Cameron - Published 2013

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Adventure Military

Christian Cameron is a very successful historical novelist who has written a whole series of novels set in ancient Greece. Cameron has now ...Read Review

The Gilded Fan

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2013

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The story is set in the 1640s, starting off in Japan and then going via Amsterdam to England at the time of the ...Read Review

Saturn

By Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.) - By Jacek Dehnel - Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction Literary

This novel is a fictionalised version of the personal life of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is told through three narrators: ...Read Review