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Donald and Lillian were never a match made in heaven, but they have a child, Tina, and she is the love of Donald's heart.For her he would give up everything: his home, his work and even his freedom. When his marriage fails, he does just that.A chance meeting with a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-02-25
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER FROMTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE TEA PLANTER'S WIFEDiscover a stunning novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds...1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old...
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Penguin
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2016-02-25
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Fifteenth-century Europe. Tom Swan is not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2016-02-18
Collection :
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans
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Infamy is no accident. It is a poison in our blood. It is the price of being a Borgia.Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias became Italy's most ruthless and powerful family, electrifying and terrorizing their 15th-century Renaissance world. To this day, Lucrezia Borgia,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-02-11
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2017.A brilliantly distinctive debut set in China in the Second World War, IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS by Rebecca Mackenzie will appeal to readers who loved Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit or The Light Between...
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Tinder Press
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2016-01-28
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If you've been gripped by Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls, then For the Most Beautiful is a must-read for you . . .Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector,...
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Transworld Digital
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2016-01-28
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World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the pastoral coast of western Scotland. Home from an undercover mission in Berlin, she settles down to teach at her old spy training camp, and to heal from scars on both her body...
Editeur :
Constable
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2015-12-03
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An exclusive free sample from the exciting new debut, IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS. Jiangxi Province, China, 1941Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists and plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British...
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Tinder Press
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2015-11-26
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IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!A Sunday Times bestseller. Shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a cunning and relentless enemy in BRITANNIA, the unforgettable fourteenth novel in...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2015-11-19
Collection :
Eagles of the Empire
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*Brand new tie in book to the new Assassin's Creed: Syndicate*A disgraced Assassin. A deep-cover agent. A quest for redemption.1862, and with London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's first underground railway is under construction. When a body is...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-11-05
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'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - GuardianCaptain Sir Thomas Kydd's part in Britain's doomed occupation of Buenos Aires has put him on the wrong side of some powerful men at the Admiralty. He is given a poisoned...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-10-08
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September 1940. England is a war once again and London has become an ever-fragile place for widowed Livia Ripley and her two young daughters, Polly and Eliza. When Livia meets charismatic publisher Hugo Ballantyne, she is hopeful that her life is about to change for the...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-10-08
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In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2015-10-08
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The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goes out: he spends his life in a solitary world of his own making.His peace is shattered however, one hot September...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2015-09-03
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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a mother... Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon, Sri Lanka full of optimism, eager to join her new...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-09-03
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The fifth novel in the gripping Georgian mystery series chronicling the adventures of Robert Fairfax. A must-read for fans of historical crime fiction.To Bath in its Georgian heyday come colourful visitors - the grand, fortune hunters, heiresses, invalids and imposters....
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2015-08-13
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The second novel in the gripping Georgian mystery series chronicling the adventures of Robert Fairfax. A must-read for fans of historical crime fiction.It's 1761. Travelling up to the country home of his new employer, Robert Fairfax is aware that this lonely stretch of...
Editeur :
Headline
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2015-08-13
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A free e-short from 'Queen of the Dark Ages' Karen Maitland, author of Company of Liars, which explores medieval Dark Arts practices and the mysterious history of alchemy. **Includes real recipes devised by medieval alchemists and a free sample of Karen's gothic...
Editeur :
Review
Parution :
2015-08-13
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'Fine, taut writing . . . packs an emotional punch' - The TimesMargaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who will stop at nothing to place their sons on the English throne.In exile in France with her young son Prince Edward, Margaret of Anjou at last gives up...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-08-13
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