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In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or could it just have been a colossal accident?Alma Dunahew, whose...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2013-08-15
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A home burnedWhen past crimes resurface, Sir Alan Dale, loyal lieutenant of the Earl of Locksley - better known as the murderous thief Robin Hood - faces terrible vengeance at the hands of those that he and his master have wronged.A family threatenedWith his beloved...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2013-08-01
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Outlaw Chronicles
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A gripping debut thriller set in 19th-century Turin from the winner of the 2012 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING new novel competition, for fans of CJ Sansom and Imogen Robertson.The brightest mind meets the darkest killer...1887. When James Murray, a young Scottish doctor fascinated...
Editeur :
Orion
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2013-08-01
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It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bárður. Three weeks, but already Bárður's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2013-08-01
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From the moment Danny first saw Angel he was enchanted by her beauty. By the time she was fourteen - a woman with a child's face, long golden hair and sleepy violet-blue eyes - Danny had completely fallen in love with her and dreamed of making her his wife.But Angel was...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-07-25
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A dramatic story of Ireland in revolt after WWI, and two women whose futures are inextricably linked...1920s Ireland is a troubled place. The War has ended, but the IRA are beginning to agitate. Sending fear into the heart of the Anglo-Irish gentry. Against this...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-07-25
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A powerful novel that sweeps the reader back to the great Irish famine - a time of courage, passion and political upheaval.When Katy O'Donnell marries handsome, swaggering, hard-drinking Jamsie O'Hara she is as fresh and filled with dreams as her mistress, Catherine...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-07-25
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A wonderfully compelling saga of the lives, hopes and dreams of four young wives.Sheila Brophy's hopes and dreams are those of any young Dublin girl. She longs to fall in love. Fergus is older than her, in the British Army and fond of his drink, but he loves her and...
Editeur :
Orion
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2013-07-25
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When ruthless Michael McCarthy evicts the Cronins, tenants in the estate that is to become his son's, old Mag Cronin calls down the power of darkness on Michael and his descendants. At first the curse is laughed off, but in the next generation the McCarthys suffer a...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-07-25
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M.M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-07-25
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The pirate Olivier Levasseur, 'the Buzzard', has captured the greatest ship ever to sail the high seas, the Virgin of the Cape, a Portuguese ship carring a solid gold cross seven feet long.The Fiery Cross of Goa. Levasseur is hiding somewhere in the Indian Ocean, but...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-18
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Two unlikely English heroes are swept up in an epic and bloody sea battle that will change history. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS CLASH OF EMPIRES: THE RED SEA.1571. Chained to a slave galley in the heart of the Mediterranean, it seems that English adventurers Ingoldsby and...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-07-18
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When Keeley and Mary, best friends from Dublin, go off to pick grapes in France in 1977, both their lives change profoundly. Provence is utterly different from boring, repressive Ireland. Mary, who is taking a break before she settles down to marriage with her...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-18
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Two very different women, from two very different backgrounds, leave Ireland for France to make their dreams come true. Shona Fitzpatrick is bright and beautiful. Yet everything she touches seems to turn to dust. Her job is under threat and her boyfriend rejects her...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-18
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Shivaun Reilly has had enough. Still reeling from the loss of the only family she ever knew, passionately opposed to the injustices of heartless, Celltic-tiger Ireland, she thinks her heart will break when solid, dependable Ivor - the man she always thought she'd marry...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-18
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A Peking love story first published in 1935, The Maker of Heavenly Trousers tells the story of an unnamed foreign bachelor who lives in a courtyard dwelling alone but for the Five Virtues, the nickname for a family of mischievous Chinese servants who run his household...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-07-15
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A young soldier with a secret past. An ancient family rivalry.A conspiracy that threatens to plunge Roman Britain into darkness.Living in a hovel, beaten by a merciless commander, broken by the weather and forced to survive on starvation rations: no one looking at Paul...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-04
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_______________________________________A sweeping love story told through letters, spanning two continents and two world wars. For fans of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, The Postmistress and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.UNITED BY LETTERS. SEPARATED...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-07-04
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Jane Austen's Persuasion is brought into the twenty-first century by Louisa Hall in The Carriage House, a stunning novel of family and forgiveness, set in contemporary suburban America.Elizabeth, Diana and Izzy, three sisters who have lived a privileged life in suburban...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-07-04
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Working as a news photographer in 30s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes - by a vicious twist of fate - a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party. Walther's complicity makes him increasingly cynical and guilty, so that - for him - the coming of war...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-06-30
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