Great Secondhand Books At Great Prices - Company Message
 
 
Historical Fiction-1
 
All prices include postage within New Zealand.
 
For international postage please contact us for a quote.
 
The Black Pharaoh- Christian Jacq
Five centuries after Ramses,the temples of northern Egypt lie deserted,the gods forgotten.Injustice and corruption reign,and the empire seems to be hurtling towards irretrievable ruin.
Only one man,a Nubian,governing his own kingdom from the south rejects this dark destiny...
Trade pb,1999,344 pgs.
ISBN- 0684860732
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Stone Of Light Vol II:The Wise Woman- Christian Jacq
A novel of ancient Egypt.
Trade pb,2000,424 pgs.
ISBN- 0743403479
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Stone Of Light:Nefer The Silent-Christian Jacq
For 5 centuries from 1550 BC to 1070 BC a group of craftsmen guarded the most precious secrets of the Pharaoh in a mysterious village called The Place Of Truth.
Trade pb,1997,623 pgs.
ISBN- 0684866285
Condition- D
Price: NZ $10.00
Ramses:The Son Of Light- Christian Jacq
At age 14 Ramses is set to discover if he will suceed his father Sethi as Pharaoh.
Trade pb,1997,360 pgs.
ISBN- 0684821192
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Ranses:The Battle Of Kadesh- Christain Jacq
Ramses must save Egypt from the Hittites.
Trade pb,1997,374 pgs.
ISBN- 0684821214
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
My Life As Emporer- Su Tong
My Life chronicles the eventful life of a young ruler of an imaginary Chinese empire in no particular historical time.
Trade pb,1992,290 pgs.
ISBN- 9780571220786
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Howard Coyle- Until The End
The continuing story of two brothers on opposite sides of the battlefields of America's civil war.
Hardback with dj,1996,462 pgs.
ISBN- 0684817136
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
White Rose Rebel- Janet Paisley
A Highland heroine risks everything for her country and rightful King.
Softcover,2008,389 pgs.
ISBN- 9780141026794
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
Philippa Gregory- The Other Boleyn Girl
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize..the love of a King...
Softcover,2002,531 pgs.
ISBN- 0006514006
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Zorro- Isabel Allende
The swashbuckling legend of Diego de la vega-El Zorro.
Trade pb,2005,390 pgs.
ISBN- 0007201974
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Alexander Kent- A Tradition Of Victory
Rear-admiral Richard Bolitho must follow his flag's tradition of victory even though he is torn between the demands of public duty and personal need.
Paperback,1987,296 pgs.
ISBN- 0099283700
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
Alexander Kent- Command A King's Ship
March 1784,Captian Bolitho and his ship Undine are dispatched to India and beyond.
paperback,1988,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099549857
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
Alexander Kent- To Glory We Steer
January 1782 Bolitho takes the frigate Phalarope to the Carribean to fight the French,Spanish and Americans.
Paperback,2006,373 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099527862
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
Alexander Kent- With All Despatch
Spring 1792- a troubled peace,Bolitho must accept a minor appointment to search out a gang of brutal smugglers.
Paperback,2006,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099493884
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
Alexander Kent- Sloop Of War
Spring 1778- the American War of Independence,Bolitho takes command of the sloop-of-war Sparrow.
Paperback,1974,319 pgs.
ISBN- 0091715457
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
C.S.Forester- Ship Of The Line
May 1810Hornblower is in command of his first ship of the line- HMS Sutherland.
Softcover,1999,292 pgs.
ISBN- 0316289361
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
The Eagle's Brood- Jack Whyte
A graphic realisrtic Arthurian tale.
Paperback,2005,351 pgs.
ISBN- 03714500699
Condition- B
Price: NZ $4.00
Christie Dickason- The Principessa
Young,beautiful and dangerous as gunpowder,Principessa Sofia will do almost anything to get what she wants.
Trade pb,2007,501 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007252121
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Paul Doherty- The Song Of The Gladiator
Murder and suspense in Ancient Rome.
Trade pb,2004,309 pgs.
ISBN- 075530778X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The White Mare- Jules Watson
Historical epic set in Roman Britain.
Trade pb,2004,469 pgs.
ISBN- 0752860178
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Bryce Courtenay- Solomon's Song
This is the story of two families – branches of the Solomons – transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.
Hardback with dj,1999,658 pgs.
ISBN- 0670878782
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Bryce Courtenay- Brother Fish
Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. But most of all it is about the power of friendship and love.
Hardback with dj,2004,842 pgs.
ISBN- 0670042080
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Bryce Courtenay- Fishing For Stars
Fishing for Stars has, at its heart, two passionate, unforgettable – but very different – women. One is exotic, damaged, and shrewd; the other beautiful, determined and zealous. Both are bitter rivals for the love of the same man.
Hardback with dj,2008,601 pgs.
ISBN- 9780670072743
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Jean Plaidy- Queen Jezebel
The ageing Catherine de'Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry Of Navarre- but Margot refuses to utter her vows...
Softcover,2005,467 pgs.
ISBN- 0099493195
Condition-B
Price: NZ $6.00
Jean Plaidy- Uneasy Lies The Head
Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York but is haunted by the mystery of her missing brothers .
Paperback,2005,446 pgs.
ISBN- 0099492482
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
Homer's Daughter- Robert Graves
A high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl saves her father's throne from usurpation,herself from a distasteful marriage,and her two younger brothers from butchery.
Softcover,1988,283 pgs.
ISBN- 0897330595
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Ramage- Dudley Pope
1796-sea battles raging and an attack from the French has left third-lieutenant Ramage the sole officer in charge of his frigate.
Paperback,2003,379 pgs.
ISBN- 1741211271
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
The Right Hand Of Sleep- John Wray
Oskar Voxlauer is in flight from his past—from his bourgeois Austrian upbringing; from horrific memories of fighting on the Italian front in 1917 as a teenage recruit; and from the twenty years he has spent in the Ukraine watching his socialist ideals crumble and the life of the woman he loved slowly waste away. Alone, he finally decides to return to the Austrian village of his birth, where his mother is waiting to greet a son she hasn’t seen since he was a boy.
Softcover,2002,325 pgs.
ISBN- 0099286440
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Mrs Rochester- Warwick Blanchett
The suprising sequel to Jane Eyre.
Softcover,2000,288 pgs.
ISBN- 1869503651
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
Brave Enemies- Robert Morgan
Two lovers caught in the chaos of war raging in the American wilderness.
Trade pb,2003,312 pgs.
ISBN- 0732280125
Condition- B
Price: NZ $8.00
Morgan's Run- Collen McCullough
Set amongst the convicts and guards who were first sent over to the strange and hostile land, the story centres around Richard Morgan, an intelligent felon determined to survive and experience the joy of love.
Hardback with dj,2000,604 pgs.
ISBN- 0712680462
Condition- B
Price: NZ $8.00
The Soldier's Song- Alan Monaghan
A novel of conflict,love and family in the First World War.
Trade pb,2010,296 pgs.
ISBN- 9780230740860
Condition- B
Price: NZ $8.00
Deliver Us From Evil- Tom Holland
Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughn is the son of a Parliamentary officer, investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals. Led along a dark path to vampirism and beyond, he attempts to fight an evil killer.
Hardback with dj,1997,521 pgs.
ISBN- 0316882488
Condition- B
Price: NZ $8.00
The Various Flavours Of Coffee- Anthony Capella
It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker's free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the Muse and marriage may not be incompatible after all.
Softcover,2008,468 pgs.
ISBN- 9780751539431
Condition-B
Price: NZ $6.00