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A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady' was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best NovelJurassic Park meets Parks & Recreation in The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set on an alternate Earth - perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky and Michel...

'Astonishingly brilliant. My book of the year.' Liz Nugent, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Strange Sally DiamondFor fans of Emily St John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exhilarating novel about an isolated town neighboured by its own past and future,...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She Who Became the Sun.'Transcendent,...

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling series The second book in S. J. Parris's bestselling, critically acclaimed series following Giordano Bruno, set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I Autumn, 1583. Under Elizabeth's rule,...

The second book in the epic Masters of Rome series.Rome. 97 BC. Gaius Marius is one of the greatest generals Rome has ever known. under him, Rome has conquered the Western world, withstood invasion and crushed its enemies. But when the ageing Marius...

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've...

'A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine'- Evening Standard**As heard on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight**America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of 2020. This is the final, authorised report of the...

Once I moved like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.The darkly funny and action-packed story of Geronimo and how the American West was 'won'A New York Times What to Read selection for 2026In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the...

"Brilliant, a definite page turner. They combine real historical events with fascinating fictional characters.The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style, using contemporaneous artwork...

BE TRANSPORTED TO THE EPIC WORLD OF THE ATHENIANS WITH CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST LEGENDARY TALE 'Astonishing, convincing and compelling, with ferocious battles that bring the Ancient World of Greece alive' 5***** Reader Review ______ A STATESMAN IS BORN,...

'A joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human.... it kept me up all night!' MADELINE MILLERSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.And the many...

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of In the Blink of an Eye. 'A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is unswervingly gripping and scary, and at the same time beautifully tender and...

'Thea Guanzon's talent is limitless, and she is the kind of writer that comes around once in a generation. Mark my words: lives will be changed by The Hurricane Wars trilogy.' Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of...

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.About the AuthorGore Vidal was...

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short story**Named a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC****A small hardback...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection,...

'It's impossible not to be moved' Stephen King'Stunning...this novel will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on SundayThe New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child and a...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES 'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied...

A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia that imagines the life of poet and philosopher Omar KhayyamAccused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913676339Author Sarah PainterFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Siskin Press LimitedPublisher Siskin Press LimitedSeries Unholy IslandWeight(grams)...

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel...

NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is...

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and...

*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Portugal, 1811 Captain Richard Sharpe's renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel...

*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Sharpe's Tiger is the brilliant beginning of Sharpe's adventures India, 1799 The citadel of...

London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...'An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner' The Herald'Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops' Laura...

Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lowly...

'An astonishing debut... Breathtakingly tender and wryly understated' NEW YORK TIMES. 'Genre-defying... Witty and inventive' GUARDIAN. 1967. Four female scientists invent a time travel machine. But then one of them suffers a breakdown and puts the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916474703Author Andrew HastieFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Here Be Dragons LtdPublisher Here Be Dragons LtdWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062963505Author Shannon ChakrabortyFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Harper VoyagerPublisher Harper VoyagerWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm...

The bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror and The Wars of the Roses returns to the Ancient World with a gripping adventure based on an epic true story. 'HIS FINEST NOVEL TO DATE . . . THE BATTLE SCENES ARE THRILLING' SUNDAY EXPRESS___________In...

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected . . . A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068563102Author Neil McRobertFormat PaperbackImprint Wild Hunt BooksPublisher Wild Hunt BooksSeries The Northern Weird Project

London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. 'Finlay depicts a seedy, desperate London and vivid characters with considerable skill' The Times ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451456755Author S. M. StirlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncSeries IslandWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' Ta-Nehisi Coates'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' Kiley ReidA queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that...

"A tour de force" - New York Times Book Review"Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable" - Locus"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" - Washington PostFor Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the...