A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she has just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick, and why. Natalie reinvents herself as...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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1588. In Lisbon the great Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Along the coast of the Low Countries, the army of the Duke of Parma readies itself for embarkation. Threat is imminent. Yet behind it is a darker and more secretive game, one of espionage and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-06-10
Collection : Christian Hardy Series
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When he's caught stealing, young Alan Dale is forced to leave his family and go to live with a notorious band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Their leader is the infamous Robin Hood. A tough, bloodthirsty warrior, Robin is more feared than any man in the county. And he...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-06-03
Collection : Outlaw Chronicles
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David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Square. He joins the family...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2010-06-01

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This is Dougas Reeman writing under his pseudonym Alexander Kent with another thrilling Bolitho adventure!Antigua 1817Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-05-31

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'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead ...' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace. The passing of two such pillars of the establishment sent tremors through the nation and heralded...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-05-13

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'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT⭐ The Sunday Times number one bestseller⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize⭐ Shortlisted for the...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2010-05-13

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Spring 1792.Captain James Rennie is anxious to be active again after a year on the beach. And this time he longs for regular service with the Fleet as opposed to the extraordinarily dangerous detached missions he has been assigned by Britain's shadowy spy masters in the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-05-06

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD & A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKFOR FANS OF ATONEMENT, BIRDSONG, IN MEMORIAM AND ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE'A book that won't leave your fingernails intact...a terrifically exciting and thought-provoking must-read' DAILY MAIL'A...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-04-30

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In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. They have been given to the Dutch by the King of the Ashanti as surety in a deal over illegal slave trading. The two boys think they have been sent to acquire a European education,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-04-27

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1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-04-13

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Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England: thousands of British Army horses are sold off locally. Faint news of her...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-04-13

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Agnes Ridley has a cruel tongue and a heart of stone, and when she discovers housemaid Lizzie Burton has fallen pregnant, she turns her out with only the clothes on her back. If it weren't for loyal Debbie, who follows her friend into exile, Lizzie would be friendless...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-03-10

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Laura Cadman had always assumed she would marry Edmund Shaw, the son of her father's partner, and keep the Shaw and Cadman name. But Edmund's violent refusal is just the beginning. When Jabez Shaw dies, Edmund takes advantage of Laura's father and cheats him out of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-03-10

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A great adventure.A haunting tragedy.An enduring love.In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and eighty other pioneers headed to California in eager anticipation of new lives out West. Everything that could go wrong did, and an...

Editeur : Hyperion
Parution : 2010-03-09

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A heartwarming saga of a young woman's indomitable spirit and determination to survive no matter what, perfect for fans of Annie Murray and Rosie GoodwinWhen everyone's deserted her, can she find the strength to go on?Rosie Ferry is hardly more than a child when her...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-03-04

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A powerful saga of discovering your roots, and finding true love along the way, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Dilly CourtOne young woman dares to dream of a better life . . .One freezing night in the 1930s, a baby is left to die in a public lavatory in...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-03-04

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A heartrending saga of lost love, dark secrets and the rocky road to happiness, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court'Gritty and touching' Newcastle Evening ChronicleWhen a shocking secret is revealed, will she ever find happiness again?Growing up on a...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-03-04

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An uplifting saga of rags to riches, as a young woman unravels the secrets that surround her past in order to find happiness. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Hutchinson and Dilly Court.'An enjoyable historical read . . . Very readable, with good dialogue and well-drawn...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-03-04

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It is 1704 and, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging on to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met. With little expectation of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-03-04

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