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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Malayan trilogy	Anthony Burgess	Three novels originally published by William Heinemann Ltd. in 1956, 1958, and 1959 respectively. Originally published together by Penguin Books in 1972 at Harmondsworth.	OL1386692W
The Once and Future King	T. H. White	T. H. White's modern classic about King Arthur. This particular edition may have been published in Russia, but it is in fact written in English. I just finished reading this edition on the Open Libra…	OL1388028W
Shakespearean whodunnits	Michael Ashley	A collection of short stories, using the loose ends in Shakespeare's plays to work into plausible theories, usually as mysteries to be unravelled. As with all anthologies, the levels are variable.	OL15856707W
Henderson's Boys 2 Eagle Day	robert muchamore	Hitler has conquered France. Now he intends to cross the Channel and defeat Britain before winter arrives.A group of young refugees led by British spy Charles Henderson faces a stark choice. To head …	OL16525356W
Wuthering Heights Revisited	Gary Martin Best	The tragic love affair between Cathy and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte͏̈s famous novel took the world by storm. Imagine the shock of Charlotte Bronte͏̈s long-time friend, Ell…	OL17549801W
Paths of Glory	Jeffrey Archer	Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnso…	OL1807122W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780	John J. Richetti	The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re…	OL1830261W
Reinventing Liberty	Fiona Price	Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and earl…	OL20930390W
When the eagle hunts	Simon Scarrow	Britain 43 AD: the wife and children of a Roman general fall into the hands of a dark sect of Druids when their ship is wrecked in a storm. The Druids demand the return of those of their brotherhood …	OL20937302W
Home front heroes	Jon Blake	Three adventures about daily life in World War Two.	OL24172795W
When Hitler stole pink rabbit + Bombs on Aunt Dainty	Judith Kerr	Partly autobiographical, these are first and second books in a trilogy by Judith Kerr, telling the story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War.	OL24307980W
Long Day Wanes a Malayan Trilogy	Anthony Burgess	A Malayan Trilogy follows the path of a British government worker in Malaysia in three time periods: colonial times, communist insurgency, and the coming of the Americans, all very humorously with a …	OL261779W
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard	Arthur Conan Doyle	"Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar in the French Army, in Napoleon's service. He's a vain man, believing in his own superiority in many things: being the bravest soldier, the greatest swordsman, a…	OL262581W
Descendants of evil	David James	Autumn, 1884. 10 Downing Street, London. Young Oxford graduate Roger Evesham is unexpectedly summoned by Prime Minister Gladstone to investigate a gunpowder-plot that could have shaken the very root …	OL26447663W
Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction	Suzanne Keen	"Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Suzanne Keen provides a det…	OL2685589W
Constructing a World	Martha Tuck Rozett	"Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre…	OL3285584W
April Lady	Georgette Heyer	Despite the scandalous blemish on the family name of his 18 year old bride, Lord Giles Cardross is convinced beautiful Helen cares for him. When newlywed begins to fill her days with fashion and friv…	OL4092682W
Saving face and other stories	Norah Lofts	KIRKUS REVIEW: Nine stories of contemporary English-small-town life--from a versatile writer who remained vigorous and gritty (cf. The Claw) right up until her recent death at 80. Several of these…	OL5096736W