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Жанр "Исторические романы на английском языке"
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2017,
показано 30,
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‘His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come...
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Though her...
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Winner of the 2015 Costa Novel Award
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Hull, 1856.
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Unwanted and unloved, fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson is everything her mother doesn't want her to be - adventurous,...
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It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public...
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1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to...
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City of Secrets follows...
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As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course...
When you open up, who will you let in?
Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the...
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With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing...
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In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an...
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