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...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 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
Collection : 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...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 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
Parution : 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
Parution : 2009-09-03

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Ruler. Puppet Master. Killer.Glory. Death. Well-born Athenian cavalry officer, Kineas, fought shoulder to shoulder with Alexander in his epic battles against the Persian hordes. But on his return from the east to his native city, he finds not glory but shame - and...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-09-03
Collection : Tyrant
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An epic tale for fans of Jane Smiley, Annie Proulx and John Steinbeck.'This stunning first novel is powerful, tragic and utterly gripping' The Times 'Epic in scope, beautifully pitched and unsentimental in execution. Brilliant' Marie Claire'This tautly controlled epic...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-08-27

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London, 1857A series of mutilated corpses are pulled from the Thames. Young surgeon Dr George Phillips is first consulted, and then suspected, by baffled police.The Lazarus ClubMeanwhile, a secret society meets. This gathering of the finest minds of the age - Isambard...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-27

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In this gripping tale of passion, politics and conflict, King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor and three eldest sons when they enter into a rebellion against him. Aligning themselves with Henry's most bitter enemy, King Louis of France, their...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-06

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A tragedy tears a family apart - a superb novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL.Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-07-30

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Spring 1791Though deeply disturbed by a terrible incident during his previous commission, James Hayter is nevertheless on the verge of taking command of HMS Sloop Eglantine as Master and Commander when personal tragedy shatters his life. The twin blows convince Hayter...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2009-07-28

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The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory.A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-07-28

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008'Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday TimesAt the heart of this...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2009-07-09
Collection : Ibis Trilogy
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From the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, from Kwangtung, China to Wellington and Dunedin and the battlefields of the Western Front A story of two families.Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children...

Editeur : Nz Epenguin
Parution : 2009-06-29

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