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Bundle of 4 Historical Novels: Plague, Hamnet, Gillespie and I, Triflers Need Not Apply. VGC.

1/ Plague. By C. C. Humphreys. 2015

2/ Hamnet. By Maggie O’Farrell. 2020

3/ Gillespie and I. By Jane Harris. 2011

4/ Triflers Need Not Apply. By Camilla Bruce. 2021

Condition:

These are well read paperback books aged between 3 and 13 years old. All in good to very good condition. No inscriptions, annotations or markings. All clean, complete and presentable and very readable. Only small signs of use and shelf wear, curling corners, creased spines, odd smudge. From a smoke free home.

1/ Plague by C. C. Humphreys.

Arrow Books. 2015. 372 pages.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, an epic and thrilling tale of a serial killer who threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. If you enjoy novels by CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, you will love PLAGUE.London, May 1665. On a dark road outside London, a simple robbery goes horribly wrong - when the gentlemanly highwayman, William Coke, discovers that his intended victims have been brutally slaughtered. Suspected of the murders, Coke is forced into an uneasy alliance with the man who pursues him - the relentless thief-taker, Pitman. Together they seek the killer - and uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the glittering, debauched court of King Charles to the worst slum in the city, St Giles in the Fields.But there's another murderer moving through the slums, the taverns and palaces, slipping under the doorways of the rich. A mass murderer. Plague.

2/ Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.

Tinder Press. 2020. 389 pages.

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

3/ Gillespie and I By Jane Harris.

Faber and Faber. 2011. 608 pages.

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes - leading to a notorious criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception. Featuring a memorable cast of characters, infused with atmosphere and period detail, and shot through with wicked humour, Gillespie and I is a powerful and haunting second novel from one of today's most striking new voices.

4/ Triflers Need Not Apply. By Camilla Bruce.

Penguin Books. 2021. 436 pages.

1900, Chicago. Bella Sorenson knows that the world is made for men. They control everything: jobs, property, money. Marriage makes women like her their slaves. But now Bella is fighting back. Because she's angry. She's bloodthirsty. She's willing to kill to get what she wants - starting with her husband. And then her next husband. And the next one . . .

“What a story! The fact that it’s based on real life events from the Victorian era makes it that much more delicious and intriguing to read - if not macabre! I like the way the telling of this story stays closely related to the facts that are known but I would love to know what really happened. Read through to the end and you’ll know what I mean. Just brilliant!”

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