A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AND PICK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.'Effervescent' The Times'A convincing evocation of a remarkable woman' Sunday Times...

Editeur : Two Roads
Parution : 2018-11-15

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Can they do their bit for the war effort?A gripping historical saga based on a true story, following wartime nurses during the First World War. Perfect for fans of Lizzie Page’s The War Nurses, Donna Douglas’s The Nightingale Nurses and Margaret Dickinson’s The Poppy...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2018-11-01

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'Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . .The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar' New...

Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2018-11-01

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The bestselling wartime saga adored by readers everywhere. Perfect for fans of Annie Murray and Donna Douglas Can the factory girls work together for a better future?Essex, 1916Lily is a housemaid up at St Clere's Hall. But times are changing with the outbreak of war....

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2018-10-25

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A poignant and dramatic saga set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Annie Groves and Lyn Andrews. Praise for Anne Baker's Merseyside sagas: 'A stirring tale of romance and passion, poverty and ambition' Liverpool EchoIt's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2018-10-18

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but...

Editeur : Two Roads
Parution : 2018-10-16

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'A powerful tragedy' Independent Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this story of seduction and marriage, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2018-10-04

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Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . .Before Camelot. Before Excalibur. Before all you know of King Arthur. Here is the beginning of that legend . ....

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2018-10-04

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Set in Poland in the dark ages,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2018-10-04

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A thrilling historical novel and the sequel to the critically acclaimed Skin, perfect for fans of Outlander and Game of Thrones.One woman's quest to defend her culture.Haunted by the Roman attack that destroyed her home, Ailia flees to the remote Welsh mountains in...

Editeur : Hodderscape
Parution : 2018-10-04

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When Edward Price-Carpenter arrives in Wyford, Essex, he immediately catches Cassie Jordan's eye. Handsome and persuasive, the young man has come to oversee work on his father's racing yacht, and takes lodgings in the Falcon Inn where Cassie lives with her family.As...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2018-10-04
Collection : Colchester Sagas
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For Abigail Chiswell, the Colne river front in Colchester, Essex is a second home. With its own sights and sounds - of crowded quaysides, fishing smacks and packed oyster barrels - it means more to her than all the lofty rooms and comforts of her father's home. When she...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2018-10-04
Collection : Colchester Sagas
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Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the frontiers of the human' Hilary Mantel Boston, 1833Aboard the USS Orbis as...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2018-09-06

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Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged.Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2018-08-23

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The classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None.William Makepeace Thackeray's witty literary classic...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2018-08-23

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The brand new novel from queen of the saga and No. 1 bestselling author, Maureen Lee.In times of trouble, family is all you need...Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked to give a home to...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2018-08-09

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'Luminous' SEBASTIAN BARRY'Incandescent characters and mellifluous prose' LISA CAREY'Reminiscent of Edith Wharton at her very best' LIZ NUGENT_________The true story of a woman ahead of her time . . . In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2018-08-02

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A heartbreaking story of love, loss and survival following the unforgettable Daniel Pitt. From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.Returning from life as a fighter pilot in the First World War, Daniel Pitt is struggling to put the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2018-07-05

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The latest Daisy Styles novel___________It's 1944 and Britain is a country at war.The young women of the Phoenix munitions factory are giving their all to the cause, but romance is beckoning . . .The life of a Bomb Girl isn't usually glamourous. But Maggie is getting...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2018-06-28
Collection : The Bomb Girls
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'Unforgettable' - ROSAMUND LUPTONVirginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh.One snowy New Year's Eve, at the age of eighty-six, Virginia feels the time has finally come.New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2018-06-28

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