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DCB Young Readers£7.99| /"Steal. Trade. Survive." That's what Father tells Rose and Lem moments before he dies of the Great Plague.Orphaned and homeless in London 1665, all...
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Gilboa Iris
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /Dara Harow, the daughter of a rocket physicist for the US department of defense, sends her parents into a tailspin of dual-loyalty anxiety when she...
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Golden Hell
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /A blind obsession. A driving ambition. A relentless, unrestrained, single-minded pursuit of a shiny metal. These are the symptoms of a condition kn...
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Grandpa's Mountain
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /It was during the euphoric aftermath of Israels victorious Six Day War in 1967, that Yoram (Richie) Friedman uprooted his wife and ten-year-old son...
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Gun Boss of Tumbleweed
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but it does him no good-beca...
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Handful of Dust
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£6.25| /The 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, cousin...
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Hell's Legionnaire
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /American Ann Halliday is as sexy as Rita Hayworth and as fiery as the Sahara sun. And now she's feeling some real heat, as the prize captive of the...
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Hooker & Brown
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...
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Hostage to Death
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Running off to join the French Foreign Legion used to be every boy's dream of action and adventure. But for Lieutenant Bill Reilly-half Irish, half...
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Hurtling Wings
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Cast Spencer Tracy as Speed Kyle, master-builder of the hottest, fastest planes around. Then give the role of Cal Bradley, daredevil test pilot who...
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If I Were You
Galaxy Press£10.99| /Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but...
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Inky Odds
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bat Conroy-cut him and he'd bleed ink, he's a born newspaperman. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid-the greatest American journalists...
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Juno & Hannah
Spinifex Press£14.95| /1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, a settlement of Christian fundamentalists live a life of austerity and isolation. It is a place where there is ...
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Killer's Law
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation's capital. Like Dennis Weaver in the television series McCloud, Kyle's about to disco...
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King of the Gunmen
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /They call him Suicide, Smoke or simply Sudden Death. His name is Kit Gordon, and from the banks of the Mississippi to the shores of the Pacific, he...
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Leib Weihnachtskuchen & His Child
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), the son of a doctor, a liberal Jew, was born in Czortkow (now Chortkiv) and grew up in Czernowitz (now Chernivsty); ...
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Loot of the Shanung
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That's more than enough to turn Shanghai news...
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Lorenzo
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£23.99| /'Lorenzo' is a fictionalised version of a conspiracy to assassinate Florence's untitled prince, Lorenzo de Medici. The site is the city's cathedral...
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Love, Death, Chariot of Fire
Brandl & Schlesinger£23.99| /"Reg Mitchell is a modest, decent man with a gift for designing fast aeroplanes. Two horrors seek him out terminal illness, and Nazi Germanys pr...
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Maclay
Indra Publishing (AUS)£17.99| /In the autumn of 1870, Nikolai Miklouho Maclay, a young marine biologist, left his home in St Petersburg to travel to the remote territory of New G...
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Mister Tidwell Gunner
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Imagine a young Laurence Olivier cast as a scholarly Oxford professor-an academic snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard...
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Mr. Jones
Goose Lane Editions£25.99| /Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)Award-winning author Margaret Swea...
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Of Exile & Yearning
Indra Publishing (AUS)£26.99| /Lia and Frederic meet as children, never declare their love for one another, yet remain inseparably bonded. From the comfort and security of her Je...
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Of Guns & Mules
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /When eighteen-year-old David Levi is arrested together with his father and friends and deported from their home in Palestine by the Turks, none of ...
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Of Guns, Revenge & Hope
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /This is the story of Benny the son of David Levi, the central figure of "Of Guns & Mules" and the five-year period he spent serving with the Br...
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On Blazing Wings
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause-his own. Europe is at war, and he'll fi...
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Only Pretty Damned
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /This is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep...
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Orders is Orders
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /The doomed Chinese city of Shunkien was being systematically destroyed. Japan's war machine was pounding wreckage into ashes-wiping out a city that...
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Over My Dead Body
Interactive Press£23.99| /Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Fiction Award. Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners unions, Over My De...
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Passage on the Cardena
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton's mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave hi...
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Pélagie
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of t...
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Pilgrimage
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Pilgrimage 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 rena...
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Place of Repose
Ningaui Press (UK)£8.99| /The year is 875, and the Danish king of York, Halfden Ragnarsson, is carrying fire and sword across Northumbria: the once-great Christian country i...
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Pope Joan
Aiora Press£12.99| /Roïdes' irreverent, witty and delightful novel tells the story of Joan who, according to a popular medieval legend, ascended to the Papal Throne as...
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Prince of Darkness
Ariadne Press (US)£66.99| /The Prince of Darkness', written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to...
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Red Death Over China
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /It is one of the greatest conflicts-and a pivotal turning point-in history -- the Chinese civil war. On one side stands Chiang Kai-shek and the Nat...
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Roof Walkers
DC Books (US)£16.99| /Christmas, 1864, in the last years of the civil war, a twenty-year-old Irish Canadian, Eoin O'Donoghue, is newly hired as the personal secretary to...
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Rupert's Land
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritari...
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Sabotage in the Sky
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bill Trevillian is as ruggedly handsome as he is bold and brave. Kip Lee is as strikingly beautiful as she is fiery and fearless. And they've got s...
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Saint Patrick's Battalion
Blue River Press (US)£15.99| /They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mex...
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Sea Fangs
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bob Sherman has a strength of character and purpose that would make Spencer Tracy. But signing on to the crew of the yacht Bonito, he'll need every...
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Shadows from Boot Hill
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Every man walks with a shadow ... but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos-a dead ringer for Jack Palance who's a cold-blood...
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Shake-speare's Oedipus
Piercemore Books£20.99| /This novel is an exciting romp back and forth through time between Elizabethan England and the present. Both serious and hilarious the story revolv...
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Shattered Crystal
Dekel Publishing House£14.99| /A riveting historical novel about a Berlin family during World War II, whose members struggle to come to terms with conflicting parts of their iden...
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Six-Gun Caballero
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /He's handsome. He's charming. He's a total gentleman -- and he's totally outgunned and outnumbered. He's Michael Patrick Obañon. He is faced with a...
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Sky Birds Dare!
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /When it comes to flying gliders, ace pilot Breeze Callaghan is as smooth as they come. He perfects a skill that will prove vitally important for de...
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Sky Walker
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£14.99| /In 1845 Upper Canada the spark ignites between Tehawennihárhos of the Mohawk Turtle clan and the young Scotswoman Jennet Ferguson, kindling a fire ...
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Sky Walker Tehawennihà rhos
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£17.99| /In 1845 Upper Canada the spark ignites between Tehawenniharhos of the Mohawk Turtle clan and the young Scotchwoman Jennet Ferguson, kindling a fire...
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