Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-09-04

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The locals call it 'The India House'. But they have little to do with the three women who live there: grandmother, mother and daughter. Old Mrs Covington dreams of India and the days of the Raj. Her daughter Evelyn watches obsessively over eighteen-year-old Julia....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-08-31

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Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates, the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. It's...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-08-31

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Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2012-08-31

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The second book in the Insurrection trilogy, which tells the thrilling story of Robert the Bruce.King Edward I of England marches on Scotland, inspired by an Arthurian prophecy and aiming to unite the British Isles under a single crown.One man alone can thwart Edward's...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-30
Collection : Insurrection Trilogy
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Written by the author of The Bruce Trilogy, The Captive Crown, and Margaret the Queen, this is the story of a very human, fallible but courageous and indomitable man, born an Irish prince in the troubled and pagan sixth century, who rejected the high kingship of all...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-30

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Son of the doomed Mary Queen of Scots, raised to rule two countries, James was one of the oddest kings ever to ascent any throne. Neither noble nor heroic, he confounded those who despised him by being shrewd enough to reign for fifty-eight years, survive countless...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-30

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It was almost inevitable that in the 15th century the new Scots royal house of Stewart would have to come to a reckoning with the great house of Douglas.Young Will Douglas, the eight earl, was born to vast power, influence - and trouble. And with the boy-king James II...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-30

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'Our race is royal,' is the proud claim of the MacGregors. Yet for all their history and fighting prowess, they are a small clan and their lands too close for comfort to the great Clan Campbell.By the end of the 16th century, the heritage of their new young chieftain,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-30

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Plaidy's fabulous Georgian series continues with the courtship of Maria Fitzherbert ...The day the Prince of Wales set eyes on Maria Fitzherbert on the towpath at Richmond, she was twice widowed and eminently appealing. The Prince was in love. The more she resisted him,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-30

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The last book in this magnificent Georgian saga.It was necessary for the Prince of Wales to marry, and his victim was the unconventional Caroline of Brunswick. Caroline, already plagued by scandals in her personal life, would rather have married a Major in her father's...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-30

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If you love watching Call the Midwife or reading Dilly Court and Donna Douglas, you will love much-loved author Maggie Holt's warm-hearted, captivating and intensely moving wartime saga in which a young nurse's life is forever changed by war. Perfect to settle down...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-30

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With King George III under lock and key suffering from perceived insanity and the Prince Regent in ill health, all eyes are on the Regent’s pregnant daughter. Unfortunately, the unthinkable happens and both Charlotte and her baby die in childbirth, leaving the age old...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-30

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She is the darling of Parisian society. A famous author whose novels have captivated readers. He is a charming young journalist with nothing to lose.While novelist Edith Wharton writes of grand love affairs, she has yet to experience her own. Her marriage is more...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2012-08-30

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Castillon: Part One of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who have taken him captive.He's not a professional soldier....

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2012-08-23
Collection : Tom Swan and the Head of St George
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The second book in R.F. Delderfield's Swann family saga. Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale. Alex, his elder son, is a professional solder; George is a pioneer of the motor...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-16

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The compelling second novel in the Stalker Trilogy, which began withThe Spoiled Earth and continues withThe Dark Pasture, set in the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw in the bleak 1870s. In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies law, determined never to return to the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-16
Collection : Stalker Family Saga
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1915. German guns are on their way to Ireland. The British government faces its worst nightmare; insurrection at home while it struggles with bloody stalemate on the Western Front. A British spy, Sebastian Wolff of the new Secret Service Bureau, is given the task of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-08-16

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At the power and mercy of the court her life was a struggle to keep the Queen's Secret.Katherine of Valois is born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine is old enough to know her father, he is called “Charles the Mad,” given...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-16

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One of the country's most widely read novelists - the first volume in the Queens of England series.Despite the dangers of practicing her faith in the staunchly Protestant England, pretty Queen Henrietta Maria refuses to cast aside her Catholicism, so she finds little...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-16

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