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    by Werner Herzog ...
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  • Skaven Wars: The Black Plague Trilogy

    by C L Werner ...
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  • The Fishing Fleet

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    The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in ... Read more

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  • Dead Famous

    An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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  • Desiree

    The most popular historical romance since GONE WITH THE WIND

    The bestselling novel about Napoleon's first loveOne of the most successful historical romances since GONE WITH THE WINDOver 20 million copies sold worldwideTo be young, in France, and in love: fourteen year old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, a dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's ... Read more

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  • Troubles

    Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1970

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Series series W&N Essentials
    WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.'1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiancée is strangely altered, and her family's fortunes ... Read more

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  • The Ancestor's Tale

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  • The African Queen

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  • Daughter of Empire

    Life as a Mountbatten

    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

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  • Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

    The book that became a major film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt

    by Paul Torday ...
    'I really loved this book' BILL NIGHY'Stunning' DAILY MAIL'Brilliant' OBSERVER'A triumph' GUARDIAN'A delight' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThis is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout a... ... Read more

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  • Angry White Pyjamas

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