 | The Kindly Ones by Caroline Stickland
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.49 Completely absorbing. The Oresteia reset in 19th century Dorset and India. Helen of Troy can wreak havoc in any age.Excellent writing and believable characters.
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 | The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another fine novel from a fine writer.
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 | The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.10 The story of Theseus and the Minotaur as it might have happened. Makes ancient Greece come alive.
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 | Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Tremain always writes a satisfying picture of the past.
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 | The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £2.86 / Used from: £0.14 I could have chosen any of O'Brian's Jack Aubrey series. Very enjoyable historical adventure.
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Better than the film.
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 | All God's Children by Thomas Eidson
Buy used from: £0.01 A blind Quakeress in 1890's Kansas. Unusual and convincing.
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 | The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.64 The sequel to The King Must Die. Theseus and his Amazon.
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 | Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Buy new: £3.74 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing mystery in the 14th century.
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 | I, Claudius & Claudius the God by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £0.33 Roman emperors behaving badly.
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 | Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton-Smith
Buy new: £2.56 / Used from: £0.89 Atmospheric study of an old women in the Highland Clearances.
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 | The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.02 The Indian Mutiny. A pity Farrell died young.
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 | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Goings-on in Wilkie Collins territory.
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 | The Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 As above.
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 | Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.22 The short Hogarthian life of a servant-girl.
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 | Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 The rise to be Empress of China.
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 | The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Buy new: £0.24 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing mystery in the 1800s.
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 | The Colour by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.01 Searching for gold in New Zealand.
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 | London Dust by Lee Jackson
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.44 More Victoriana.
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