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  • The House at Bishopsgate

    by Katie Hickman ...
    A haunting, magical story of a cursed gem and the people who suffer in its wake, set in seventeenth-century London.Most men of stature wouldn't marry their betrothed after she'd been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery in the harem of the Great Turk, but Paul Pindar, wealthy merchant and former ambassador to Constantinople, is not most men. When Paul and Celia, finally reunited, return to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Pindar Diamond

    A Novel

    by Katie Hickman ...
    In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest-a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay a troupe of acrobats to carry mother and child away.In the bustling trade center of Venice, merchant Paul Pindar is the subject of his colleagues' concern. Since his return from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Courtesans (Text Only)

    by Katie Hickman ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.‘Irresistible…history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.’ William DalrympleDuring the course of the 18th- and 19th-century a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives – and those of other people – and made the world do their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Travels with a Mexican Circus

    by Katie Hickman ...
    _______________'A wonderful writer … An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure' - Guardian'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads ... Enchanting' - Daily Telegraph'Magic is at the heart of Hickman's narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Daughters of Britannia

    The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (Text Only)

    by Katie Hickman ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.‘English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers’ – Nancy MitfordFrom the first exploratory ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Aviary Gate

    by Katie Hickman ...
    _______________'A hugely enjoyable novel ... fast moving, complex and deeply satisfying' - Joanne Harris'Lie back on your ottoman and relax. Katie Hickman will take you to a magical land ... this is a box of Turkish delight' - Independent'Forbidden love, sailors and secrets - fasten your seat belts for Hickman's period tome ... Think Jane Austen meets Pirates of the Caribbean' ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    The Aviary Gate

    A Novel

    by Katie Hickman ...
    Narrated by Josephine Bailey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    Elizabeth Staveley sits in the Bodleian library, holding in her trembling hands a fragment of ancient paper. It is the key to a story that has been locked away for four centuries—the story of a British sea captain's daughter held captive in the sultan's harem.Constantinople, 1599. There are rumors and strange stirrings in the sultan's palace. The chief black eunuch has been poisoned by a taste of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Daughters Of Britannia

    by Katie Hickman ...
    Narrated by Katie Hickman, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    In this fascinating BBC Radio series, Katie Hickman examines the lives of 'diplomatic women' through their letters and diaries. From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

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    Equal of the Sun

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    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

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    Iran in 1576 is a place of peace, wealth, and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah's daughter and closest adviser, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess's maneuvers to instill order after her father's sudden death incite resentment and dissent. Pari and her ... Read more

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    The Book of Madness and Cures

    A Novel

    Narrated by Katherine Kellgren ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her ... Read more

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    The Greatest Knight

    The Unsung Story of the Queen’s Champion

    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor ...
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    Royal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry.But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and ... Read more

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