 | I, Claudius and Claudius the God (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £8.68 The finest historical novel of the twentieth century
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 | Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 Cold and hungry in the 14th century North of England. The murder of a child, obsession, cruelty and life on the medieval road with a band of traveling players
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 | The Book of Saladin: A Novel (Islam Quintet 2) by Tariq Ali
Buy new: £7.44 / Used from: £3.90 The crusades and barbarous Europeans. An inversion of the lionheart myth
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 | Meadowland by Thomas Holt
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Kari and Eyvind - the 11th century odd couple and their North Atlantic saga
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 | The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul
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 | The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 Murder, religion and political intrigue in 14th century London
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A 17th century mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies and smoking guns
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 | Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
Buy used from: £0.01 Alexander without Hollywood. The definitive retelling
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 | The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £98.17 / Used from: £74.99 Surely, heart, the great joy of the world
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 | Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.64 An enigmatic portrait of the eighteenth dynasty pharoah
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 | Little Big Man (Panther) by Todd R. Berger
Buy used from: £1.68 Jack Crabbe ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by Custer
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 | Conscience of the King (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Alfred Duggan
Buy used from: £6.03 Cerdic Elesing, King of Wessex and proto-Flashman, narrates his fictional 6th century biography
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 ... talking of which ...
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 | Hannibal by Ross Leckie
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 The tragedy and cruelty of the Punic Wars
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 | The Evening of the World: A Novel of the Dark Ages (Matter of Eternal Rome) by Allan Massie
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Marcus travels the breadth of the unravelling Roman Empire as the evening of the Dark Ages draws in. Magical
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 | Eagle of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £1.80 Under-10s start here. This book changed my life
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 | Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The birth of modern capitalism and the corruptions of greed and material gain
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 | The Unburied by Charles Palliser
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A Victorian tale of murder and deception set in an English cathedral close
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 | Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (Penguin Modern Classics) by Marguerite Yourcenar
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £3.19 The Emperor Hadrian leaves a long letter to his successor. As good as Graves.
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