A touching story of cultural difference and tested loyalties. Set in Belgrade before WWII, Fathers and Forefathers tells the story of the marriage between a Steven, a Serb, and Elizabeth, an Englishwoman. After meeting at an English university they marry and leave...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-06-08

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The first time Annie Sweet sees 43 Stanley Road, the house is so perfect she almost feels as though it has chosen her. But with her husband seeming more distant, and her daughter wrapped up in her friends and new school, Annie is increasingly left alone to mull over the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-02

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It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year.All through winter, from London to France,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-06-02

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At the centre of The Navigator of New York is the rivalry between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook to be the first American to reach the North Pole. Its protagonist, however, is Devlin Stead, a young man from St John's, Newfoundland. Devlin's mother dies, in mysterious...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful is set in the 1950s, the time of the Passive Resistance campaign, the Sophiatown removals, the emergence of the South African Liberal Party and the early stages of the Nationalist government in power. Revolving around the everyday...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and consequences that reverberate across three decades. An...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26

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A moving, inter-war family saga The German Boy from Patricia Wastvedt, the Orange Prize Longlisted author of The River.In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-05-26

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September 1919: Twenty-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together.But in 1917, Will laid...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-05-12

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July 1806. Commanding a prison hulk full of French captives, Lieutenant Martin Jerrold thinks his war can't get much better. He's far away from the more life threatening aspects of naval service and he can keep his mistress close to hand. It all seems too good to last....

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-04-30

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By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome.After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-30

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22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson is a heartbreaking and powerful novel about wartime secrets and the difficulties of adjusting to postwar lifeIt is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-28

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In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn,...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2011-04-28

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This second novel by the author of the acclaimed Rules of the Wild is very much in the tradition of The Leopard or The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a compelling story of three generations in twentieth-century Italy. Casa Rossa, the home of the Strada family, is a ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-05

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A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.A MAN OF PASSION.A MAN OF THE FUTURE.Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Charting his...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-31

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Fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this wonderfully evocative and enthralling romantic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "Fabulous reading" -- ***** Reader review"Wonderfully clever and witty" -- *****...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-03-30

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Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this compelling and enthralling read from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. The 1950s are brought vividly to life - as is the real battle between desire and duty that Ottilie faces. A real...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-03-30

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The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.Ayla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are...

Editeur : Hodderscape
Parution : 2011-03-29
Collection : Earth's Children
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONParis, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-03-29

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A heart-rending wartime saga, bringing the reality of the end of war to the people of April Grove and Bridge End.Ruth, Lizzie and Heather each have their own reasons for greeting the end of the war with mixed feelings. For Ruth, it means she must face the possibility of...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-03-24

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The sixth book in M.C. Beaton's charming Travelling Matchmaker series. A damsel in distress and a confirmed bachelor - surely a match made in heaven!No coach journey is ever dull with Miss Hannah Pym aboard, and this one proves no exception as she meets the young and...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-03-24
Collection : The Travelling Matchmaker Series
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