Whether your passion is The Ancient Greeks, The Wars of The Roses or The Russian Revolution, you'll find stories of life during these eras and every other, often using factual accounts to build a fictional narrative.
Historical Fiction Books
Cranthorpe Millner Publishers Colonel Blood
Book SynopsisColonel Blood – Soldier, Robber and Trickster has it all: royalty, love-affairs, lusty wenches, war and fighting. But above all, an incredible robbery. This is the life of self-styled ‘Colonel’ Thomas Blood, the 17th century dashing Anglo-Irish adventurer who achieved fame by (almost) succeeding in stealing the Crown Jewels in 1671. But Blood did much more. He changed sides from being a Royalist to a Roundhead during the Civil War and also became involved in several treasonous plots. He saved a friend from being hanged and twice attempted to kidnap his longtime enemy, the Duke of Osborne. But despite being caught after his failed jewel robbery, he was saved by King Charles II. Why was the king so magnanimous? What hold did Blood have over the ‘Merry Monarch’? D. Lawrence-Young has written one crime and over twenty historical novels which have been published in the UK, USA and Israel. He loves writing about Shakespeare and the picturesque characters who make English history so fascinating.
£999.99
Sandstone Press Ltd The Starlings of Bucharest
Book SynopsisTed moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director and then attend the Moscow film festival. But someone has other plans for him. Has he walked into a trap?Trade ReviewBrilliantly evocative of the insidiousness, paranoia and mistrust of the Soviet period. A thrilling read -- Charlotte PhilbyWe all start out from Graham Greeneland — the journey across it, even out of it, is what matters. Sarah Armstrong cuts her own path … an enviable talent for location and detail. She may be new to spy-noir but I think the master himself would endorse The Starlings of Bucharest — an enthralling Greeneland tale of an innocent young man out of his depth in a cold, cold war. -- John LawtonThe prose is beguiling – Alice Munro meets John le Carré. -- Fiona Erskine‘A mesmerising, evocative novel in which characterisation and narrative tension are in perfect balance.’ -- Barry Forshaw
£11.52
Sandstone Press Ltd Blasted Things
Book SynopsisWW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love, but has settled for middle class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off, and wants more than life offers now. Drawn together by their shared experiences at the Front, they have a compulsive relationship, magnetic and parasitic, played out with blackmail and ending in disaster for one of them.Trade ReviewGlaister is a sensitive but unflinching writer who knows exactly how to beguile the reader into turning the pages.‘Glaister is an experienced novelist, and this is a consummate and heart-wringing performance.’ * The Sunday Times *‘Combines psychological insight with an immersive sense of time and place. In short, she’s the perfect lockdown novelist so if you’ve yet to discover her, now’s the ideal time.’ * Metro *‘Glaister’s novels always appear to be as effortless for her to write as they for us to read.’ * The Times *‘Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within.’ * Independent on Sunday *‘Elegant and moving’ * Marc's books blog *A sensitive, unsettling tale of a post-First World War romance. * The Independent *A sensitive and compelling drama. * Sunday People *Glaister’s sense of place and ear for dialogue are brilliantly convincing.Blasted Things is a restrained, elegant, deeply compassionate novel.One of the most compelling novels I have read all year.A moody, mesmerizing tale of a man and a woman who’ve returned to Suffolk after surviving the atrocities of the Great War. * East Anglian Daily Times *Glaister is acute in her exploration and depiction of family and social discord. * The Scotsman *
£14.99
Viking Society for Northern Research Bishops in Early Iceland: 2021
Book SynopsisThe four translations assembled here are intended to supplement the early Bishops Sagas that are already easily available in translation. The texts included are Hungrvaka (Foretaste), Páls saga byskups (The Saga of Bishop Páll Jónsson), Oddaverja þáttr (An Account of the People at Oddi) and Prestssaga Guðmundar góða (The Priesthood of Bishop Guðmundr Góði). All have been dated to the first years of the thirteenth century. Together with the Viking Societys edition of þorláks saga byskups (2013), they typify the first emergence of saga writing and show how the evolution of saga composition began. The texts are translated by Theodore M. Andersson who also provides a full introduction. The book includes a bibliography and index of names.
£11.40
Headline Publishing Group A Street Shaken by Light: The Story of William Neilson, Volume I
'An epic voyage well worth taking ... Exhilarating' Marianka Swain, TelegraphOne of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson. In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam and then on foot to Paris, where he meets and is immediately employed by the banker John Law. A day later he is in the Bastille, but not before he has encountered a young woman of surpassing beauty to whom Neilson will be devoted for the rest of his life.Imprisoned in the Bastille, he has no possibility of seeing or communicating with his beloved. When at last he recovers his freedom, he is despatched at once to sea, bound for the Indies. He will be shipwrecked, become an equerry on the Île-de-France, anon command a disorderly legion in Persia, become a linguist able to hold his own in diplomatic and mercantile circles, all the while anticipating a summons from the Stuart king in exile in Rome, until he is sent back to France, and thence to Scotland in the service of the Young Pretender.This is brilliant, irresistibly entertaining fiction. A whole world of adventure and romance comes alive in the hands of one of our most ingenious storytellers, one of our finest writers.
£14.44
Monsoon Books Pearl
Book SynopsisThe eponymous pearl, Martinha Rozells, embodies the rich and diverse heritage of the Straits in the 18th century. Her husband, Captain Light, is the dragon in search of his elusive pearl: a British settlement on the Straits of Malacca. Through their eyes we experience the rich culture of the region and its tumultuous politics.
£999.99
Wilkinson Publishing PUP
Book SynopsisHow does a man pick up the pieces with only one arm?A badly injured Terry Shepherd returns from Vietnam and is spat on by war protestors at the airport. Disabled and still reeling from his harrowing journey in Vietnam as a unit medic, Terry finds himself running afoul with the vicious North Richmond Sharpie gang. With his restaurant job up in smoke and his best friend dead, Terry realises that he must kill or be killed - only to find out that someone's already beaten him to it.
£20.25
Spinifex Press In the Name of the Trees
£17.95
Spinifex Press The Rust Red Land
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£17.95
NeWest Press Disappearing Moon Cafe
Book SynopsisDisappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver''s Chinatown.Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations of women whose lives are haunted by the secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation of Chinese immigrants to Canada.Each character, intimately drawn through Lee''s richness of imagery and language, must navigate a world that remains inexorably double: Chinese and Canadian. About buried bones and secrets, unrequited desires and misbegotten love, murder and scandal, failure and success, the plot reveals a compelling microcosm of the history of race and gender relations in this country.
£15.29
NeWest Press Rupert's Land
Book SynopsisAt the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritarian father, Cora Wagoner daydreams about what it would be like to abandon society altogether and join one of the Indian tribes she''s read so much about. Saddened by struggles with Indian Agent restrictions, Hunter George wonders why his father doesn''t want him to go to the residential school. As he too faces drastic change, he keeps himself sane with his grandmother''s stories of Wîsahkecâhk. As Cora and Hunter sojourn through a landscape of nuisance grounds and societal refuse, they come to realize that they exist in a land that is simultaneously moving beyond history and drowning in its excess.
£15.29
NeWest Press After Alice
Book SynopsisAfter retiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von Täler has returned to the small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of the big city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and ever decades later Sidonie still finds herself living in the shadow of her deceased older sister Alice.As she gets down to work sifting through the detritus of her family''s legacy, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph in equal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with the family members she has left.Karen Hofmann''s debut novel blends a poetic sensibility with issues of land stewardship, social stratification and colonialism, painting the geological and historical landscape of the Okanagan in vivid and varied colours.
£14.39
TouchWood Editions The Horseman's Last Call
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£10.44
TouchWood Editions Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet
Book SynopsisWinner of Best Food Literature (Canada) at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards In this intimate guide to Alberta''s sustainable food scene, writer, poet, professional chef, and food advocate Dee Hobsbawn-Smith profiles more than seventy-five of the province''s growers and producers. Learn the A to Z''s of each producer, from Asparagus growers to Zizania cultivators, and enjoy the twenty-six original recipes, one for each type of produce.The book also examines the ground that farmers stand on: government involvement, sustainability and the environment, animal welfare, farm labour, and organizations from Slow Food to the grassroots Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement.An (agri)cultural examination of modern farming that offers a clear look at current government policies and sustainable growers'' best practices, Foodshed sets forth some of the issues that modern farmers face, as seen by the growers themselves.
£18.89
TouchWood Editions The Judge and the Lady
Book SynopsisWhen the beautiful and flirtatious Eleanor Wentworth is sent away from London in 1870 for her scandalous behaviour, she arrives, angry and rebellious, in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. Soon, however, she is befriended by Celia Turner, the freethinking young wife of a conservative minister, and unlikely though it seems, they become lifelong friends. When Eleanor meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the first chief justice of BC, life in the colony suddenly becomes much more attractive. Discover life in vibrant, late-nineteenth century Victoria and meet the characters who helped build the province''s rich history.
£18.89
TouchWood Editions Passage on the Cardena
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton''s mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave him, he sets out in search of his father, who is logging somewhere on the rugged West Coast. Matt boards the SS Cardena and begins an incredible voyage up the Inside Passage and through the isolated coastal communities the ship services.On board he befriends fellow passengers Monica James and the high rigger Will Cameron, both intent on finding a new life, and Emily Carr, a soon-to-be-famous painter searching for a new direction in her art. What each of them finds comes as a surprise as they journey aboard the legendary steamship Cardena.
£10.44
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Pilgrimage
Book SynopsisPilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, Spirit Lake has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption, and miracles.On this harsh and beautiful land, four interconnected people try to make a life in the colonial Northwest: Mahkesîs Cardinal, a young Métis girl pregnant by the Hudson Bay Company manager; Moira Murphy, an Irish Catholic house girl working for the Barretts; Georgina Barrett, the Anglo-Irish wife of the hbc manager who wishes for a child; and Gabriel Cardinal, Mahkesîs'' brother, who works on the Athabasca river and falls in love with Moira. Intertwined by family, desire, secrets, and violence, the characters live one tumultuous year on the Lac St. Anne settlement--a year that ends with a woman''s body abandoned in a well.Set in a brilliant northern landscape, Pilgrimage is a moving debut novel about journeys, and women and men trying to survive the violent intimacy of a small place where two cultures intersect.
£18.89
Blue Dome Press Moon Queen: Caravan of Torqoisie
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£17.09
Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc. Shattered Crystal
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£999.99
Primedia eLaunch LLC The Fly Strip
Book SynopsisThe Fly Strip is the story of a witty seventeen-year-old boy in rural Indiana in 1960, who finds himself on the front lines of the integration movement of that era. Through chaos and tragedy, he turns to his young teacher for support. He soon discovers the secrets of this small Midwestern townand experiences a most forbidden love.
£18.04
Secant Publishing The Life and Deaths of Blanche Nero
Book SynopsisAt fifteen Blanche Nero watches the electrocution of her Italian immigrant father, punishment for the inexplicable brutal murder of his recently acquired friend Old Man Flaherty. She resolves to do something with her life that values humanity over justice, mercy over sacrifice. But she is forever haunted by the mystery of her father. She is also drawn irresistibly to the bigger human mysteries of violence and death. After a gruelling but successful academic career at some of the nation's finest university hospitals, Blanche is almost sixty. Her long career as a trauma surgeon at Charity Hospital in New Orleans has been abruptly ended by Hurricane Katrina. She takes a year sabbatical from the medical school and leases a small flat in Venice, seeking an understanding of her father in the place where he lived his formative years--and of herself by reliving and recording her own remarkable life. On a cold morning in Piazza San Marco, Blanche meets Count Lorenzo Ludovici (Ludo), an aging, elegant, and charming Venetian who is dying of AIDS. Blanche is drawn to him and is uncharacteristically self-revealing. As he introduces her to his beautiful city as their relationship develops and is health deteriorates Blanche becomes ever more fond of the count. As she relives her past by writing down what she remembers, she sees the girl she was and the woman she became with new eyes; the mystery of her father's death; her distant mother; her sometimes misguided adolescent efforts to grow up. And then discovering the thrill of medicine, especially the sensual trill of trauma surgery and losing herself in in that career, immersed in violence. She recalls her attempts at relationships, especially with Jesse Pinto, the one man whom she has ever loved, and how she ended that. She remembers her love affair with the Big Easy and Charity Hospital (the Big Free) that came suddenly to a violent end. Through a series of painful and revealing conversations, Blanche and Ludo discover that each of them has private knowledge of interlocking pieces of their history. Blanche feels sadness of a depth that she has not felt before, but also a strange sense of freedom. Perhaps, at last, she is ready to begin her life.
£22.09
Secant Publishing Collected Stories
Book SynopsisThe 19 short stories in this collection by award-winning author Barbara Lockhart are set in the small towns and fields that stretch across the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the land between the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where evidence of long history and present-day struggles abounds. In this slice of rural America, there can be seen and appreciated a sense of the raw humanity of neighbors and strangers alike, as their choices and actions reverberate over days, years, and generations.
£16.19
Regal House Publishing LLC What Empty Things Are These
Book SynopsisIn 1860's Britain there is nothing unusual in a man beating his wife. When George Hadley's aggression triggers his own stroke and coma, his wife discovers all she thinks of as hers is to pass to her young son Toby. Adelaide seems as powerless as her ladies' maid, Sobriety. Beyond the strictures of domestic and social expectation, these two women of different class remake the rules to discover what lies beneath the drapes and tassels of Victorian Britain. Life, they find, is urgent, exciting... but cheap. Even as they adventure into alleyways, a tunnel and a s ance, their innocence is gone. What Empty things Are These is about what happens to women who look into the face of this newly industrialised and still patriarchal age. Change is everywhere, exhilarating, corrupt, terrifying. Fraud and farce abound. Spiritualists prey on the confused; women are encased in clothing that imply both modesty and sexuality; the powerful prey upon the weak. Adelaide and Sobriety, in their way, show us that every era has secrets that must be uncovered for real social progress. But the truth of the age is encapsulated for them, in the underlying tale of the vulnerable urchin girl, the nameless victim of this pitiless society.Trade Review"What Empty Things Are These is an exquisite story of friendship across class, the realisation of self worth, and the delicate emergence of female solidarity in the face of society's disdain. Crozier has created a glorious Victorian London that creaks and groans and gasps in its smoky, damp darkness and stifling corsetry. A stunning debut and a triumph of imagination and historical voice." - Alison Goodman, NYT bestselling author of Eon, Eona and The Dark Days Club series. "Elegant, witty and sharply insightful, What Empty Things Are These is a mid-Victorian riff on the intellectual and actual freedom of women - one that cleverly begs the question of what has, and what hasn't, changed today." - Kim Kelly, author of the novels Black Diamonds, This Red Earth, The Blue Mile, Paper Daisies, Wild Chicory and Jewel Sea
£13.46
Simon & Schuster Beneath the Attic
Book Synopsis“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic…on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl Forbidden passions have shaped and haunted the Dollanganger family since their first novel—Flowers in the Attic—debuted forty years ago. Now discover how twisted the family roots truly are, and witness the clan’s origins as a result of one wild and complicated relationship. In this evocative and thrilling tale from New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews, see Corrine Dixon as a young girl and discover the fascinating family history of the Dollanganger clan.Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon, is swept away by the charms of rich, sophisticated, and handsome Garland Foxworth. After discovering that she’s pregnant, Garland does what appears to be the honorable thing and marries her in a huge ceremony on the luxurious Foxworth Hall grounds. Both families fervently overlook the pregnancy, happy for a suitable resolution. Now the mistress of a labyrinthine estate, Corrine discovers that nothing is what is seems. Garland is not the man once captivated by her charms, and she’s increasingly troubled by his infatuation with memories of his departed mother. Can Corrine survive this strange new life? Or is her fate already sealed? Explore the origins of the legendary Dollanganger family in this page-turning, gripping gothic thriller.Trade Review“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
£15.96
Scribner Book Company Briefly, a Delicious Life
Book Synopsis*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An ?exquisite...too lovely to bear? (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this ?deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle? (Cosmopolitan) between George, Chopin, and Blanca a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel
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£15.30
Boulder Books The Reincarnation of Winston Churchill
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£16.19
5310 Publishing Sofia's Freedom: A Gripping and Adventurous Tale
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£14.24
Next Chapter No One Can Hide
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£17.99
Kopernik The Gates of Heaven: The Ottoman Empire Trilogy
Book SynopsisIt is 1492, and Andalusia is being destroyed the victims have no one to look to except for a Sultan a sea away. The Gates of Heaven is a work of historical fiction about the story of the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Andalusia and Ottoman Sultan Bayezid IIs humanitarian rescue of these victims of persecution from the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. Set against the historical backdrop of the fall of Granada, Columbus voyage to the New World and the advent of the printing press, this epic novel brings to life a lesser known, yet no less important, episode in the history of the encounters between the Ottoman Empire and Europe in vivid detail. An epic tale of adventure from the Atlantic to the far reaches of the Mediterranean, The Gates of Heaven is also an ode to lost Andalusia and a tale of humanitarianism so often not heeded even in the twenty first century.
£32.79
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Indus Challenge
Book SynopsisBharat is in chaos. While the kingdoms fight each other, Alexander''s forces gather for the assault, theireaderured by tales of supernatural weapons and the elixir of immortality. Only one man can save the subcontinent from domination by the Greeks: the young Chandragupta Maurya, trained under the aegis of the dark Brahmin'', Chanakya.When an ancient seal is found, sharing the secrets of the brahmastra, the redoubtable weapon of the Mahabharat, it is up to Rudra, young commander of the Mauryan Nava Yuva Sena andifelong friend and confidante of Chandragupta, to decode it. Along with his fellow commandos and with the able guidance of his guru, Rudra embarks on a quest that takes him from the snowy peaks of the Himalayas to the seas of Rameshwaram, hunting the clues that willead him to the brahmastra. On the way, he meets the Chiranjivis, ancient beings tasked with divine duties andearns the secrets behind his own birth and his mysterious powers.But Rudra must be careful, for not all enemies were dispersed with the death of the mighty Alexander. Treacheryurks in the home and when Rudra is framed for the attempted murder of his sovereign, he must pull every trick at his disposal to reveal the enemy and save his kingdom from plunging, once more, into bloodshed and chaos.A historical, mythological adventure story, The Indus Challenge is sure to appeal to readers interested in the storied past of India and theegends woven into its soil.
£8.99
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd Handful of Dust
Book SynopsisThe Gardner''s are one of the old Anglo-Indian families of India. A tale which describes about their growing up at the village with siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles. Ivan an orphan who lives at Chhaoni, the cantonment of Colonel William Lineaus Gardner. Gem and Chris, poor Anglo-Indians who are neither accepted nor rejected residing on the periphery of the village. The doctor who corrupts Gem and the accidental murder of Chris''s father and his involvement with the dacoits who infest Manota. Alaida the beautiful woman who entices Ivan. Mira, The village masseuse, her daughter and grand daughter. The wolves, which stalked her and the husband who avenged her. Kasgunj to Darjeeling, British India to modern-day, grandeur to poverty and the Manota which drew them. A fortress with a claim to ancient history and several legends.
£7.61
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Longing
Book SynopsisLonging is the yearning of Kathanjali, the chief protagonist caught in the vicious cycle of life and death. Her encounters with a conglomeration of people, both of little and major significance chisel her character in particular, and her life in general.
£6.34
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Poverty and the Modern Princes
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£13.50
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Sari of Surya Vilas
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£10.19
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Begum Samru: A Reign of Romance, Royalty and
Book SynopsisHer story has its fair share of war, politics and diplomacy alongside love, betrayal, conspiracies and ruthlessness.
£14.99
Ruth Kent Return of a Warlord: The Silvan Book IV
£17.40
University Press of Southern Denmark Sense of Belonging: Morkinskinna & Icelandic
Book SynopsisMorkinskinna is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that portrays the kings who ruled Norway in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It emerged during a particularly fertile period of composition of Icelandic kings'' sagas, and marks a key moment in the genre''s development, being the first extant work in Old Norse in which the reign of many kings is narrated in detail. Its structure has long been considered idiosyncratic among Old Norse kings'' sagas.
£28.35
University Press of Southern Denmark The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical,
Book SynopsisThe reality of the fantastic combines a ''new philological'' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsögur and riddarasögur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript''s various contents, demonstrating how fictions that are in many respects non-realistic can be made to yield up insights into the real-world concerns and interests of a group of fifteenth-century Icelanders. Both the methodology of this study and its conclusions should interest readers from diverse fields, including literature, history and manuscript studies.
£32.40
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. INDRA: The Rise and Fall of a Hero
Book SynopsisThere was something unusual in the air. There was no sound, no breeze and time seemed to have stopped as the world waited with bated breath. The eerie silence was unnerving and unsettling. What was this anticipation for? What was the world waiting for? In the stillness of the infinite silence, a mother was waiting in anticipation to give the world its elements. Indra was about to be born. Indra, most popularly known for his power over the rains, has been considered to be a cosmic, dragon-killing hero and a warrior god. So, what makes this warrior hero fall from grace? What makes him insecure, powerless and given toust and merriment in the post-Vedic era? Indrathe Rise and Fall of a Hero is an attempt toook closely at an erstwhile human-hero'', much maligned in theater period due to the wheel of time, which doesn''t even spare the gods.
£10.49
HarperCollins India JOURNEY TO THE THRONE
Book SynopsisTwo princes of the Gupta kingdom, Chandra and Rama, vie for the throne after their father's death. Chandra, the ideal prince, faces deceit from his jealous brother Rama, leading to intense battles for power. The story explores sibling rivalry, royal intrigue, and the challenges of royal life.
£14.99
HarperCollins India Nandis Charge: Battle of Vathapi
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HarperCollins India Aazadi
Book SynopsisWhen India is partitioned, the sisters find themselves separated from one another, afraid of what will happen to not only themselves, but also each other. It is only then that they understand what it means to be independent, and the price one has to pay for it.
£15.99
HarperCollins India Varahas Vengeance: The Battle of Vathapi Book 2
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£12.40
Westland Publications Limited Tantric Aghoranand
Book SynopsisThis second part in a series of riveting tales covers the making of Tantric Aghoranand based on the authorâs own experiences.
£11.52
HarperCollins India Do Log
Book SynopsisPeople like those who left their homes on that truck never found another home; they kept looking for a place called home, a place to belong to.
£13.70
Roman Books Descent of the Lyre, The
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£7.19
LiFi Publications Pvt Ltd False Ceilings
Book SynopsisShakuntala, born in Dalhousie, inherits a secret on her wedding night in 1946. The secret follows her through the tumultuous events of 1947 Punjab, 1950s Delhi, and 1970s hippie culture, causing destruction as it is passed down through generations.
£11.24
