FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE The Separation, Dinah Jefferies' stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continents.A country at war with...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-05-22

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In the fourth volume of the Settling Accounts sequence it is 1945, and the war between the northern and southern American states that began in 1861 ends at last, as the most inventive and enthralling alternate-history series of our time comes to its surprising...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-05-08

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Turtledove's alternate history of a century-long American civil war continues . . . continues . . . The first book in the Settling Accounts sequence tells the story of an utterly different World War II.It is 1939, and the world is overshadowed by the thunder-clouds of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-05-08

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Turtledove's alternate history of a century-long American civil war continues . . . The second book in the Settling Accounts sequence takes the story to 1942, during an utterly different World War II.The Confederate States of America are locked in a tangle of jagged,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-05-08

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Turtledove's alternate history of a century-long American civil war continues . . . The third book in the Settling Accounts sequence takes the story to 1944, the most violent year of an utterly different World War II.The United States have found their fighting form at...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-05-08

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Billie Challinor's mother dies during an air raid, but the child grows up confident that in her jazz musician father Chas she has the best dad in the world. Seeking refuge from the London Blitz by moving to Leeds, kindly landlady Liz Morris befriends them: the scarred,...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-05-01

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As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-30

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The Thomas Kydd novels are the story of one man's journey from pressed man to Admiral during the Great Age of Fighting Sail.Invasion: Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-24

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Turtledove's alternate history of America in the last 150 years continues . . . The final book in the American Empire sequence takes the violent American civil war (which has become a world war) to the 1930s. Seventy years have passed since the first War Between the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-20

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Turtledove's alternate history of America in the last 150 years continues . . . The second book in the American Empire sequence takes the violent American civil war (which has become a world war) to 1924: a time of rebuilding. Life is slowly returning to normal in the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-20

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The Thomas Kydd novels are the story of one man's journey from pressed man to Admiral during the Great Age of Fighting Sail.Command: Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-17

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The Thomas Kydd novels are the story of one man's journey from pressed man to Admiral during the Great Age of Fighting Sail.Mutiny: Caught up in the Mutiny on the Nore, Kydd is faced with a terrible choice. Abandon his friends and shipmates? Or join the rebellion and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-10

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_____________________'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with hunger to engage the reader.' Hilary MantelFEBRUARY 1460In the bitter dawn of a winter’s morning, a young man and a woman...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-04-10

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The Thomas Kydd novels are the story of one man's journey from pressed man to Admiral during the Great Age of Fighting Sail.Kydd: Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-04-03

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You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy.You will, in time, enter the rooms of London’s...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-03

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He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War.He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric.He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist – and 24 other...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-03

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Liverpool, 1942. As the residents of Pearl Street prepare for Christmas, adversity and tragedy bring them ever closer together. A powerful new saga from the bestselling author of AFTER THE WAR IS OVER.Eileen is worried about the growing distance between herself and her...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2014-03-27

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Sally, Lee, Clare, inseparable companions through their school days, had made a vow at fifteen to meet up with each other in ten years time. Now at twenty-five, and as young women, they remember their younger selves.Lee, just beginning to make a name for herself in the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-27

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April 1914. Former US President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit have embarked on a dangerous expedition down an uncharted river in the Brazilian Amazon. Threatened as they are by disease, drowning and starvation, an even greater peril awaits them when they are...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-13

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'Seductive, atmospheric, intriguing, Green Darkness is one of those classic novels you come back to time and again' (Kate Mosse) The hugely popular historical novel from the author of Katherine.England, 1552. Protestant king Edward VI has been on the throne for five...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-06

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