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Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-08-12
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Erast Fandorin Mysteries
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Erast Fandorin returns in another thrilling Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, andErast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-08-12
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Erast Fandorin Mysteries
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Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, with three of his children. During an afternoon stroll, daughter...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-08-12
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Erast Fandorin Mysteries
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George Hart, back in England following his heroics in the Zulu Wars, scarcely has time to gamble away his meagre fortune when he is summoned to a secret meeting in Whitehall. There, Prime Minister Disraeli himself asksGeorge to undertake a dangerous mission to...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2010-08-05
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'White-knuckle tension as the two most dangerous snipers in Europe hunt each other through the hell of Stalingrad. Immensely exciting and terribly authentic' Frederick ForsythStalingrad in 1942 is a city in ruins, its Russian defenders fighting to the last man to...
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Orion
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2010-08-05
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1980s Romania: As the sun sets on the magical shore of the Black Sea and casts its last rays across the water, all Nora Teodoru can think about is pursuing her dream of becoming an accomplished artist - and of her love for Gigi, her childhood boyfriend from the Turkish...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-08-05
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Young Florie Gilder has always known that her biological father is a noble--her only evidence an heirloom gold belt. Living as a commoner, she earns her keep as apprentice-jewelry-designer in her foster-father's goldsmithing shop. Secretly hoping to find her real...
Editeur :
Forever
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2010-08-01
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Susanne Thorne is an orphan of means, one reason why Bette Hollander carries the young English girl off to her home in far-away Scotland. Bette would be more than happy forSusanne to fall in love with her handsome, headstrong son Louis, for marriage to the little...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2010-07-30
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Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten. They only knew they had to kill... The figures in khaki were no longer soldiers, no longer men. Sven Hassel and his comrades are once more hurled into the ferocity of the frontline.The Eastern Front is a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
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Sven Hassel War Classics
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The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second.The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor.The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival.Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
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Sven Hassel War Classics
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A sobering portrait of the absurdity of the Nazi regime and the atrocities committed by Hitler's secret police.'Frighteningly vivid, a most strongly felt piece of writing' IRISH TIMESAfter months of fighting a savage war on the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment -...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
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Sven Hassel War Classics
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THE BLOODY ROAD TO DEATH depicts all the savagery of war punctuated with black humour, as Tiny, Porta and the rest of the men advance across Europe.The Russian Officer falls forward and I sink my teeth into his throat. Blood runs down over my face but I don't notice it....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
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Sven Hassel War Classics
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'They beat me,' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me. They want me to confess to something I never did.'Sven Hassel and his comrades are fighting on the Finnish front, facing an arctic winter more ferocious than...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
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Sven Hassel War Classics
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It is the middle of the 12th century . . .On the banks of the Nile, in a city alive with intrigue, Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. In the shadow of the Grey Mosque, generals vie for power and influence under the scheming eyes of a...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-07-22
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Discover explosive action and white-knuckle drama in the spectacular second instalment in Harry Sidebottom's vivid five-part series, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell Mesopotamia, AD 260 Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been...
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Penguin
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2010-07-22
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'An impressive debut' IndependentGLORY. POWER. REVENGE. The seventh and last Crusade. Young, Spanish nobleman, Francisco de Montcada, is the hero of this novel, but his tale is told by his former friend, a moderately trustworthy Cistercian monk named Brother Lucas. For...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-07-20
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More than three thousand years ago, a black child was found on the shore of the Red Sea. She was given the name Zipporah, 'the bird'. But because of the colour of her skin, her fate was sealed: in the tribal lands where she lived, no man would want her as a wife. But...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2010-07-06
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A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of AleppoIt is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance to...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2010-07-01
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Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before killing herself. In America Joey grows up torn between two cultures, haunted,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2010-07-01
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