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Blood and ice Blood and ice Robert Masello In this haunting and suspenseful thriller, Robert Masello delivers an adventure that spans continents and centuries--a spellbinding story that ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic rese… OL12006821W
To Do and Die To Do and Die Patrick Mercer The historical fiction debut from former soldier, BBC defence correspondent and MP Patrick Mercer is a thrilling military actioner set during the Crimean War.1854. Newspapers report that war is immin… OL15178064W
Hope Hope Lesley Pearse Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery ...Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up i… OL15188533W
The rose of Sebastopol The rose of Sebastopol Katharine McMahon In 1855, Rosa Barr, a young Englishwoman, travels to the Crimea determined to work as a nurse. She never returns. Three people have been intimately connected with her: her cousin, a soldier and adven… OL17735174W
The great stink The great stink Clare Clark It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to London and his beloved wife from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job transforming the city's sewer system, he believes it w… OL17738717W
The great stink The great stink Clare Clark A tale of corruption and murder beneath the streets of Victorian London. OL18162415W
Flashman at the charge Flashman at the charge George MacDonald Fraser Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V. C. , returns to play his (reluctant) part in the charge of the Light Brigade in the fourth volume of the critically acclaimed Fla… OL1823720W
Master Georgie Master Georgie Bainbridge, Beryl The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel from Beryl Bainbridge, the distinguished author of The Birthday Boys … OL1970208W
No place for a lady No place for a lady Gill Paul Praise for Gill Paul:--'Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.' LULU TAYLOR The year is 1854, and Britain is in the grip of a gruesome war. Dorothea Gray has not seen her little sister Lucy si… OL20940504W
The valley of death The valley of death Garry Douglas Kilworth Sergeant Jack Crossman's second adventure is set at the notorious Battle of Balaclava, where he is witness to the tragic and hopeless charge of the Light Brigade. Sergeant Jack Crossman of the 88th,… OL24858432W
The rose of Sebastopol The rose of Sebastopol Katharine McMahon The #1 UK bestseller comes to America- a sweeping historical novel about love, war, betrayal, and discovery.In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence … OL2833760W
The Great Stink The Great Stink Clare Clark It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to his beloved wife from the battlefields of the Crimea. He secures a job transforming London's sewer system and begins to lay his ghosts to res… OL5815443W