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  • A Royal Affair

    George III and his Troublesome Siblings

    The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters were doomed to marry foreign princes and leave home forever; his brothers had no role and too much time on their hands - a recipe for disaster.At ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Aristocrats

    Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

    A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Passionate, witty and moving, the voices of the Lennox sisters reach us with immediacy and power, drawing the reader into their remarkable lives, and making this one of the most enthralling historical ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    King in Waiting

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad.'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Great Level

    A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently.Jan flees to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tides of War

    Newly-wed Harriet stands poised on the threshold of the adult world. Her husband, James, is setting off to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain and left alone in London, Harriet is taken under the wing of Lady Wellington. While Harriet plunges into a new life of freedom at home, James faces the bloody reality of the battlefield.As war rages abroad and England stands on the brink of change ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Call Upon the Water

    A Novel

    This “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by “a lovely writer [who] can take your breath away” (The New York Times Book Review).I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Call Upon the Water

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    This “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by “a lovely writer [who] can take your breath away” (The New York Times Book Review).I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Great Level

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Great Level by Stella Tillyard, read by Boris Hiestand and Maggie Service.‘I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count.’In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great ... Read more

    $18.45 CAD

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    Different Class

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    A Place of Greater Safety

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    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

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    A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming, handsome, but erratic and untrustworthy. As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the ... Read more

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    Landlines

    The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path

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    Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCEThe latest memoir from global bestselling author Raynor WinnSome people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . .Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only o... ... Read more

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