Hannah has always felt in the shadow of her older sister, Cat. Cat is the flamboyant one, the one who can make everyone laugh.Hannah is so quiet that her parents often joke, ‘Has Cat got your tongue?’ NowHannah has a daughter of her own, who is about to get married. On...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-08-21

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Her husband was killed in the Great War. His wife is dead. Why not journey to the other side of the world and start again from scratch? What does it matter if they don't know each other, they will in time, after all? Norah thinks it is the most stupid idea she has ever...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-07-10

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A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.'Exquisitely original' Ian MacEwan'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert HarrisIn the long...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-05-29

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The streets of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, where disease and squalor jostle with high culture and grand ambitions, are the setting for Jessica Stirling's powerful new novel.On the brink of a disastrous marriage Nicola Templeton finally rebels, and flees to Edinburgh...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-04-03

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Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2007-11-02

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In an empty theatre at the end of the pier the cast of the Fairbourne Follies gathers round the radio to hear Neville Chamberlain declare war on Germany. Four firm friends are forced to part. Rose, the beautiful dancer, must return to her family in London and the blitz,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2007-04-05

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Glasgow is a city teeming with immigrants, rich and poor, schemers and victims alike. And the McKennas, fresh from Ireland, have no intention of being victims. When Nolan McKenna and his sisters arrived unannounced on Cissie Cassidy's doorstep claiming to be her late...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2007-02-22

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From the bestselling author of You'll Never See Me Again comes a compelling story about an old scandal and its consequences . . .Her existence would be the ruin of her mother.Baby Hope was the unfortunate proof of Lady Harvey's adultery.Smuggled out of a privileged...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-01-11

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January, 1941. Dark days for Britain, standing alone against the menace of Nazi Germany, and for four friends fighting their own personal battles . . .When Rose Taylor receives two proposals on New Year's Eve she has to face an agonising choice that threatens to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2006-11-01

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An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping WW2 novel Diana 'Steve' Escott-Stevens knows what she is getting herself into. For 12 months she has fed and looked after agents preparing for a mission in France. She knows that only half of them will come back. But she is...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2006-10-05

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Take a journey across America with a poor Victorian flower girl in her epic journey to a better life, from the internationally bestselling author Lesley PearseAs voted by readers as their favourite Lesley Pearse novel___________One good deed takes her into another world...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-05-04

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In Michael Parker’s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father’s tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast,...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2005-09-16

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From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compelling tale of one girl caught in a family mystery, a struggle against cruelty and a quest for loveWithout her mother she is alone in the world . . .1930.Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-01-13

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Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her family's narrowboat, proving she's the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a 'lady' -- and will use the most...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2003-09-15

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Billionaire Bad Boys series, the first book in her laugh-out-loud romance series about three brothers finding love. Foreign correspondent Roman Chandler has always prized his freedom above all else. Now losing a coin...

Editeur : Forever
Parution : 2003-08-01

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Briony Marsden has led a hard life, forced to do the work of a grown man while enduring her drunkard father’s taunts and blows. But when he goes too far one day, her fate becomes even worse as she makes her way alone in a heartless world. Not quite alone. She has a...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2003-04-14

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When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2002-08-29

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In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-09-27

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The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster.The Forsyte Saga begins as the nineteenth...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-09-27

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In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-09-27

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