Carlo Altoviti – ormai ottuagenario – affida alla carta il racconto di una vita che si intreccia indissolubilmente con la nascita di una nazione. È il 1858, l'Unità d'Italia è una speranza vicina, e dalla sua penna scorrono settant'anni di storia, passione e...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-02-25

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“A Sunset Touch” by Howard Spring is about Roger Menheniot, a middle-aged, reclusive London bank clerk who dreams of escaping his dull life by buying a house in his ancestral Cornwall, a dream unexpectedly fulfilled after meeting a distant American cousin during WWII,...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-02-25

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“Shabby Tiger” by Howard Spring is about the gritty, bohemian life in 1930s Manchester, focusing on young, rebellious artist Nick Faunt and his unconventional relationships, particularly with the forthright Anna Fitzgerald, exploring themes of art, class, love, and...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-29

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Born in Newgate Prison, the notorious Moll Flanders is destined for a life of turmoil and scandal. Determined to survive and prosper by any means necessary in the cutthroat society of 17th-century England, she navigates a world where a woman has few options and even...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-22

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Romance and terror in a barbaric age. Michael of Finlandia an orphan bastard pursues a better social position with help of friendly people and crosses the continent of Europe to seek his fortune.

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-06

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By a stroke of luck, eighteen-year-old Louise Tanquist has fallen into a new job as a photographer’s assistant. But it’s 1917 and the United States is in the verge of entering World War 1. Suddenly, Tacoma, Washington where she lives is being overrun with army recruits...

Editeur : Books We Love Ltd.
Parution : 2026-01-01

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1402:After leaving war-torn Wales, Sir Harry Percy, Hotspur, faces fresh threats at home. King Henry IV again fails to fund defense needs and the Scots invade. Nonetheless, at Homildon Hill, Harry triumphs and the Scots lose nearly all their army to death or capture,...

Editeur : Books We Love Ltd.
Parution : 2025-12-01

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Only a few wanderers like Louis Juchereau de St. Denis had ever ridden the red earth from the San Pedro to the Red River. This Chevalier de St. Denis is portrayed in Wellman’s new novel not so much as a soldier of fortune but rather as fortune’s fool. Ten years in the...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-11-01

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In questo romanzo di introspezione e passione, Antonio Fogazzaro dipinge un ritratto indimenticabile di un'anima divisa tra il dovere e il sentimento. Daniele Cortis, giovane deputato di austera integrità e fervidi ideali politici, vede il suo mondo ordinato e rigoroso...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2025-10-27

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A dieci anni dalla conclusione de Piccolo mondo antico, i protagonisti di quella indimenticabile storia fanno i conti con un'epoca nuova, carica di tentazioni e di crisi. Piero Maironi, nipote del Franco del romanzo precedente, è un giovane sacerdote di intelligenza...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2025-10-27

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In un'Italia divisa tra la fede della tradizione e i venti tumultuosi del Modernismo, si consuma l'ultima, intensa battaglia spirituale di Antonio Fogazzaro. Nelle serene campagne venete, attorno alla figura del nobile e mistico don Aurelio, si dipana una storia di...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2025-10-27

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Abe Skinner, a seasoned sea captain haunted by grief and responsibility, leads the schooner Hesperia from Newfoundland across the treacherous winter seas of 1916. Driven by desperation to provide coal for his Newfoundland hometown, Skinner and his crew face the...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2025-10-03

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When Emily leaves her restrictive home in Canada to study art in London, England, she longs to prove herself as an artist, trying to carve a path for herself towards financial security. But her dreams don’t receive a warm welcome, as her disapproving English relatives...

Editeur : Inanna Publications
Parution : 2025-09-30

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When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-09-16

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From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman. Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-09-16

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Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-09-16

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The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-09-16

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How was a discharged woman from a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland able to find and market an unending supply of choice seafood from Vinland… long before Columbus or Cabot ever ‘discovered’ the New World? She exhibited the spunk of a proto-feminist,...

Editeur : Books We Love Ltd.
Parution : 2025-09-01

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Primarily known for historical novels in the Crusader and Cossack series, this time Harold Lamb in “A Garden to the Eastward” features a hidden tribe living in a volcano in Kurdistan.

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-02-04

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Originally published in Norwegian in 1927, this translation by Arthur G. Chater first published in 1929, public domain. It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-01-21

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