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Desperately tired after months living rough with Italian partisans, Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines that results in devastating tragedy. Rose, performing for the troops crossing France, at last finds a man she feels she can love and is forced to make the most...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-06-11
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Inspired by first century AD warrior women, Janet Paisley's Warrior Daughter is a gripping adventure about one young woman's struggle to survive in the harsh Celtic wilderness.2,000 years ago on the Isle of Skye, a warrior is born.Daughter of an Iron Age warrior queen,...
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Penguin
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2009-06-04
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font size="+1">'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, bestselling author of Bridgertons The third book in the New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgertons and Eloisa's Wildes of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-05-28
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Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-05-28
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He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in...
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Transworld Digital
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2009-05-27
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I can't be with those who throw stones at women and children.It's beyond me.Beyond my love for Ezra.Beyond my respect for God.In 397 BC, in Susa, the opulent capital of the Persian empire, where the Jews are living in exile, young Lilah is destined for a happy life: she...
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Transworld Digital
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2009-05-27
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From the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible FuriesRussia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with...
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Transworld Digital
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2009-05-07
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Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing...
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Penguin
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2009-04-30
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The gripping and bloody story of one of history's most infamous and enigmatic villains - part II in the ATTILA trilogyThe 5th century has dawned in blood. The young boy exiled thirty years ago has grown into a man. One stormy autumn day, a mysterious rider is seen out...
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Orion
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2009-04-16
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AN EPIC STORY OF EMPIRE, HEROES, TREACHERY, COURAGE, AND MOST OF ALL, BRUTAL BLOODY WARFARE . . .'Enthralling and exciting, you will struggle to put this book down' 5***** READER REVIEW'A cracking story. Sidebottom's detailed knowledge of the period is remarkable'...
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Penguin
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2009-04-01
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Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the People's...
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Penguin
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2009-03-26
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The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is -in fact - travelling with them.The...
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Penguin
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2009-02-26
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The battlefields run with blood in this gripping finale to the bestselling Attila trilogy.The infamous leader of the Huns stills thirsts for blood and supremacy as he crosses the Danube and prepares to attack the Western Empire and face once more his boyhood...
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Orion
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2009-02-04
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Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009Artist, lover, wife, mother: can one woman be them all?Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grew up with a disillusioned mother and a father haunted by memories of war. But Jennet has a talent - and a passion - for art. When she...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-01-29
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The stunning sequel to Christian Cameron's epic TYRANT.Kineas, the Athenian cavalry commander, has come a long way since being dismissed from the army of Alexander and vengefully exiled by his own city. Together, his mercenary force and their Scythian allies have...
Editeur :
Orion
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2009-01-22
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Tyrant
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Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosamunde Pilcher and Dinah Jeffries will love this emotional and sweeping wartime romance set in Singapore from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.READERS ARE LOVING THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE! "Moving tale of bravery and human endurance...the...
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Transworld Digital
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2009-01-01
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Sisters. Rivals. And the love of one man. Isabella and Beatrice d'Este are as different as night and day. Wordly and ambitious, Isabella's beauty and intellect are legendary across the courts of Europe, while her younger sister, a tomboy, prefers horses and the hunt....
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Cornerstone Digital
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2008-12-26
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ONCE A RAKE, ALWAYS A RAKE!Gentle Reader, always remember that-and pray that I, Meredith Merriweather, heed my own warning. For I find myself caught in a scheme to prove that the notorious "former" scoundrel Lord Lansing, Alexander Lamont, is just as wicked as he always...
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Forever Yours
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2008-12-14
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A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'It's been a while since I had such fun reading a book' Daily Telegraph'Readers might feel they have reached the...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2008-12-11
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Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA Richard & Judy Book Club choice'A beautiful, ambitious novel . . . Emotionally resonant and perfectly rendered, I believed in every character, every sheep, every last blade of grass.' - Ann PatchettIn 1944, a German Jewish refugee...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2008-10-16
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