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'It is impossible to exaggerate the power of this short, unbearably poignant novel.' Mail on Sunday'A bold and elegant novel' Helen Dunmore, Guardian'A haunting story, beautifully told' Viv Groskop, ObserverAn extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2010-10-14
ePub
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In a cave set back from the ocean, on the coast of New Zealand, Louise and Schmidt hide along with two local boys frightened of being called up to fight in the Great War. But the sensual rhythm of the tango lessons which Schmidt teaches on that sandy cave floor will...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2010-10-10
ePub
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"No one knows more about Israel's existential dilemma than Alan Dershowitz-or writes about it better. From its explosive beginning to its startling climax, The Trials of Zion excites and intrigues, even as it depicts the unique dangers of a lethal part of the world....
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2010-10-01
ePub
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Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-09-23
Collection :
Erast Fandorin Mysteries
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**PRE-ORDER AGRIPPA NOW: THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, COMING AUGUST 2026**A CORRUPT WORLD ON THE BRINK OF A TERRIFYING DISASTER.'A pulse-rate-speeding masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES'A stunning novel . . . holds your attention to the end' THE TIMESDuring a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-09-14
ePub
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Married at sixteen. A queen at twenty-five. Declared insane and locked up by the men she adored. Juana 'la Loca' - the last true queen of Spain. Juana - daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella and sister to Catherine of Aragon - is a woman ruled by her passions. Her arranged...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-09-10
ePub
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Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2010-09-10
ePub
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Another wonderful Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen Lee.The product of an affair between a nurse and an injured American soldier during the Great War, Ruby O'Hagan's early life is spent in an orphanage. At sixteen she runs away with a farmworker, and two...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-09
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Another wonderful Liverpool saga from bestselling author, Maureen Lee.At the age of nineteen, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary - although she doesn't know quite how to go about it. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-09
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A wonderfully involving family story that begins in Liverpool at the beginning of the Second World War and spans forty turbulent years.Liverpool, 1939. The Second World War is about to start when pretty Laura Oliver meets Queenie Todd. Laura is twenty-one and happily...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-09
ePub
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Two families - and their secrets . . . A superb Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen LeeIn Liverpool, on a stormy September night in 1920, two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same house. Enemies at first, they later become...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-09
ePub
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Two sisters; one heartbreaking mistake; a lifetime apartIt is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-09
ePub
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The stories of an American Indian sniper caught up in the Great War and of his aunt, one of the last Cree Indians to live off the land, are intertwined in a mesmerising journey as they travel home over three daysThis beautiful, haunting novel begins as Niska is reunited...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-09-09
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'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!'
Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-09
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People may know that Abraham, the great Patriarch of the Old Testament, was the first man to spread God's word. But how many know of his wife, Sarah? How she was born into a wealthy and powerful family in the Sumerian city of Ur? Or how, at the age of twelve, escaping...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-09-07
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A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are others there who know George is innocent, too - and the men who set him up...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-09-02
ePub
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At the dawn of history, an epic war is about to begin in the deadly quest for honour. The city of Sumer, ruled by a brutal murderer and his vicious, power hungry sister, is poised to give birth to the mightiest empire in history. No one stands a chance as it brings a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-09-02
ePub
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How does Jeremiah Mount, the dealer in pornography, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? In Pepys' Diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memories Sam looms large. Friends and drinking partners at...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-08-31
ePub
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Jane Johnson's The Salt Road is a magical historical adventure which brings the most unlikely of people together in an epic quest that spans the decades and the hot, shifting sands of Morocco.'My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-08-26
ePub
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