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'Fascinating . . . Jam-packed with adventure and colour' JODI TAYLORREADERS LOVE JENNIFER MACAIRE'S TIME FOR ALEXANDER SERIES!'I honestly couldn't put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Loved this book! Can't wait to read the next one!' ⭐...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
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2019-01-31
Collection :
The Time for Alexander Series
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Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born and now lives in the glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver, finding joy both in helping the...
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Ebury Digital
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2019-01-24
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Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets. A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O'Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan 'Thrilling, thoughtful, passionate' Daily Mail'Beautiful, unsentimental, intelligent' The...
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Riverrun
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2019-01-10
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** NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE **BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015"Extraordinary" New York Times"Quite unforgettable" Daily...
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Maclehose Press
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2019-01-10
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Liverpool, 1925: Can a chance meeting lead to a fresh start?Lillian Taylor dreams of a world beyond the locked gates of the convent orphanage. For ten years she has survived the hard faith of the Mother Superior, but the arrival of a glamorous visitor changes...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2018-12-13
ePub
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5,49€
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It is 1744, and Nicholas Ballantyne, a young Scotsman dreaming of a life as laird of his ancestral estate finds himself quite unexpectedly on the Winchester, a ship bound for Hindustan, seeking to begin a new life as a ‘writer’ on the rolls of the British East India...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2018-11-30
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A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AND PICK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.'Effervescent' The Times'A convincing evocation of a remarkable woman' Sunday Times...
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John Murray
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2018-11-15
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Can they do their bit for the war effort?A gripping historical saga based on a true story, following wartime nurses during the First World War. Perfect for fans of Lizzie Page’s The War Nurses, Donna Douglas’s The Nightingale Nurses and Margaret Dickinson’s The Poppy...
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Ebury Digital
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2018-11-01
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'Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . .The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar' New...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2018-11-01
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The bestselling wartime saga adored by readers everywhere. Perfect for fans of Annie Murray and Donna Douglas Can the factory girls work together for a better future?Essex, 1916Lily is a housemaid up at St Clere's Hall. But times are changing with the outbreak of war....
Editeur :
Sphere
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2018-10-25
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A poignant and dramatic saga set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Annie Groves and Lyn Andrews. Praise for Anne Baker's Merseyside sagas: 'A stirring tale of romance and passion, poverty and ambition' Liverpool EchoIt's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2018-10-18
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but...
Editeur :
Two Roads
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2018-10-16
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'A powerful tragedy' Independent Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this story of seduction and marriage, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . .Before Camelot. Before Excalibur. Before all you know of King Arthur. Here is the beginning of that legend . ....
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2018-10-04
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Set in Poland in the dark ages,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-10-04
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A thrilling historical novel and the sequel to the critically acclaimed Skin, perfect for fans of Outlander and Game of Thrones.One woman's quest to defend her culture.Haunted by the Roman attack that destroyed her home, Ailia flees to the remote Welsh mountains in...
Editeur :
Hodderscape
Parution :
2018-10-04
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When Edward Price-Carpenter arrives in Wyford, Essex, he immediately catches Cassie Jordan's eye. Handsome and persuasive, the young man has come to oversee work on his father's racing yacht, and takes lodgings in the Falcon Inn where Cassie lives with her family.As...
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Piatkus
Parution :
2018-10-04
Collection :
Colchester Sagas
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For Abigail Chiswell, the Colne river front in Colchester, Essex is a second home. With its own sights and sounds - of crowded quaysides, fishing smacks and packed oyster barrels - it means more to her than all the lofty rooms and comforts of her father's home. When she...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2018-10-04
Collection :
Colchester Sagas
ePub
Offre spéciale
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11,99€
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Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the frontiers of the human' Hilary Mantel Boston, 1833Aboard the USS Orbis as...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2018-09-06
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Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged.Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past,...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2018-08-23
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