A turbulent tale of a young man's growth from innocence to maturity in the harsh world of Victorian England.In the teeming heart of nineteenth-century London, Owen Oliver walks out of his gloomy, unwelcoming lodgings and doesn't stop his travels until he reaches...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-05-09

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Brilliant' BERNARD CORNWELL'Enthralling' THE TIMES'Nobody writing today depicts the chaos, terror and brutality of war better' MATTHEW HARFFYINTRODUCING ROGUISH HERO JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.A compelling military adventure for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2013-05-09
Collection : Jack Lark
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Four strangers, one addictive drama, and a season of surprises. . .When Edward invites his neighbours to watch Downton Abbey, he never imagines that his weekly screenings will change the lives of three very different women . . .Samantha married for the wrong reason:...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2013-05-09

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Rhodes: part five of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.A young Englishman, Tom Swan, has been ordered by his Cardinal to find a spy - a traitor. At the same time, a rich merchant has offered him a great deal of money to -...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2013-05-09
Collection : Tom Swan and the Head of St George
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A Richard and Judy Summer 2013 Book Club pick.The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting and moving novel about a mother and a daughter, caught between a tsunami and a war.Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-05-09

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Leavitt’s new novel, Days of Wonder, is coming April 23, 2024. Pre-order now! In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2013-05-07

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. As they set...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-05-02

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'Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-05-02

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Annie Fullerton is only a housemaid, but when her master's pampered daughter needs help, it'sAnnie she turns to. Emily is going to have a baby, and in Victorian Perthshire there is no worse disgrace for an unmarried girl. The two girls go into hiding in a charming...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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When her mother dies, Laura Morrison is forced to give up her place at univerity to care for her father and her young brother Ronnie. She dreams of escape from the unending housework that now fills her days. But worse is to come. When her father decides to re-marry...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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'A real East-End tale . . . brilliant!' - 5-STAR reader reviewGolden-haired, sunny-natured Amy, youngest and dearest of Annie Flanagan's lively brood of thirteen, is the apple of her mother's eye. But with the outbreak of World War II, the Flanagan family is torn apart,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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She thought she'd escaped her past . . .Susan is a London slum child. Constricted by the rigid rules of the East End orphanage she is brought up in, she escapes to dazzling streets of Soho where she is adopted by a group of prostitutes. Soon enough, she too is earning...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Autumn Alley: where the East End's most fascinating call their home . . .Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Four decades.Four generations. One World War.Raised in Stepney, the heart of London's East End, Maggie Riley is the only child of an Irish widower. When she becomes pregnant at the age of fifteen she is delighted, for it means she has captured her beloved Jim Burns.But...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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The fourth, and concluding, title inThe Nicholson Quartet sees Kirsty and Craig Nicholson struggling to hold their lives together. What started with love could soon find itself ending in tragedy...Only love for their son holds Kirsty and Craig's stormy marriage...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25
Collection : The Nicholson Quartet
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A dazzling tale of love, sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara, from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader.Barbara of Austria is plain, quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband, for unmarried at...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2013-04-25

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1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Portsmouth in the 1920s is the setting for Julia Bryan'ts second novel about the Forrest family of Lemon Street in Portsea. It's almost a year since Lily Forrest waved her green shawl to her sweetheart Michael as his ship steamed off to the far east. She wishes...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-11

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Susan MacFarlane had only a few months with David Cameron, but in tht time he taught her the power of passionate love - its rewards and its punishments. Then she returned to her duty: marriage to a man who could run the family's paper mill, the mill she loved and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-11

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When Linda Chalmers hears her best friend from college has died her whole life changes forever. She finds herself the guardian of precocious fifteen-year old Jennifer. Ignoring her mother Kirsty's warnings and her family's reluctance Linda brings the young girl back...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-11

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