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'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - GuardianIt is two years since Thomas Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship Duke William. Now, he and and the other members of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-11
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'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' - Daily ExpressThrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-11
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'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - GuardianIn the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting.Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-11
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'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' - Daily ExpressThomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson's taskforce on an urgent reconnaissance...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-11
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Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-07
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Is her love worth more than gold? Following in the pioneering footsteps of the women who have gone before her, Ruby and her new husband James brave a long and treacherous journey to start their new life together. However, they soon discover that there are many more...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-11-26
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Lilian and Alice are the bright young twin daughters of the eccentric Mr Talbot, who resides in a huge mansion stuffed full of fossils, inventions, suits of armour, botanical specimens and other specimens of his sprawling collection of curiosities. WhenLilian rebels...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-24
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'Gems like this are too rare. I was hooked in ten pages.' Conn IgguldenGEORGE HART just wants to serve his Queen and honour his family. It's not that simple.BASTARDHe doesn't know his father, only that he's a pillar of the Establishment. His beloved mother is half...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-11-12
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'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity' - New York TimesTwo thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six...
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Abacus
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2009-11-05
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In 18th-century France, a child is captured in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years. Now 12 years old, the Wild Boy is put on public display as a freak, and finally handed over to the ambitious, emotionally repressed Doctor...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-10-29
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'AN EXCEPTIONAL STORYTELLER' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner'Ingenious'New York Times Book Review'Compelling'Daily Telegraph'Fast-moving'Spectator'Cinematic'Marie Claire'Gripping'New York MagazineFrom the co-creator and writer of the award-winning HBO series...
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Sceptre
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2009-10-15
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'Remarkable...a rip-roaring adventure novel with a true depth of feeling' Sunday Times'A joy to read' HeraldThe First World War ended the day Sam Simoneaux's regiment reached France, but he saw more than enough of its ravages. Returning to New Orleans, he determines to...
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Sceptre
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2009-10-15
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Emma Lawrence has reason to fear the base cruelty of the man she must call uncle. She and her sister Rachel were taken into the Gilmore household on the death of their parents and have known nothing but unkindness at the hands of Fenton and his wife.When Rachel is...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-10-01
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A sizzling novel of love and revenge on the wild frontier. In an Idaho logging camp, Dory bears a child by the handsome son of a rival mill owner--but the child's father dies before they can be married. Then rugged Benton rides into her life, a man who ignites both...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
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Wyoming Frontier
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Her family craved nobility, his desperately needed wealth. So Marisa's moneyed father arranged to wed one of his daughters to the brooding, mystery-shrouded Justin St. Clare, Earl of Straeford, soldier and woman-hater. For although the Earl's dashing good looks...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009-09-26
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Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009-09-23
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The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2009-09-15
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Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-09-15
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*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR*** 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. ***** China, 1929.For years...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2009-09-03
Collection :
Russian Concubine
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*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR*** 'Historical, epic fiction - it doesn't get much better than this' The BooksellerDiscover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. *****...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2009-09-03
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