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After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
FANTASY MASTERWORKS
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An exotic, beguiling love story set in 1950s Singapore.'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left? A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could not tell...
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Orion
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2011-09-22
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______________________She was the Princess Diana of her day.She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and...
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Preface Digital
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2011-09-08
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Their young carefree days are over, but they've shaped Crista and Maggs' lives...The Devonshire village of Ford is full of excitement and curiosity at the arrival of their new doctor, the dashing young Scotsman, Jamie Murray. Among the fluttering female hearts are...
Editeur :
Piatkus
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2011-09-01
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The 30th anniversary edition of the classic international bestseller, with a new afterword from Bernhard Schlink'A masterly work. Read this and read it again' - Observer'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of German conscience' -...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
W&N Essentials
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A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging.In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
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Niagara Falls, 1915When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene - the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
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When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her non-country-style boots, determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off a wave of intrigue that ripples through the lives of everyone there, from Julie the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
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________________________________The first book in Diana Gabaldon's LORD JOHN GREY series, set in the same world as her OUTLANDER novelsIt's 1758 and Europe is in turmoil - the Seven Years War is taking hold and London is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey, a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
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The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel.By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-08-25
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DECEMBER 1919. Tom Allen, uncomfortable in London after five years in uniform, receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Hannesford Court.It's almost as if nothing has changed. Cards in the library after dinner. The Boxing Day shoot. The New Year ball. Margot.But Tom...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-08-18
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Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks and the Persians fought an epic battle to decide the future of the world...Arimnestos of Plataea grew up wanting to be a bronzesmith, like his father. Then, in the chaos of war, he was taken to a city in the Persian empire...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-08-18
Collection :
The Long War
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A special bundle of one fiction and one non-fiction title from bestselling historian Alison Weir, both exploring the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.The Captive Queen: It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-08-04
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'I could not fathom they were going to kill the queen. Nor could I bear to witness Anne Boleyn's beheading...'As a favour to a doomed queen, Kat Ashley agrees to become governess and confidante to the young Elizabeth Tudor. Together they suffer bitter exile,...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-08-04
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1640, and the pall of war hangs over France...The young Chevalier de Roland has scarcely set foot in the city before he crosses swords with a cruel nobleman to defend a young woman's honour. Too late he learns he has stumbled on a conspiracy within the King's own...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-08-04
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Vincent comes of age in Paris in the summer of 1916.With German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the stillness of the city sits at odds with the candlelit salons he attends at...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-31
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How far would you go for love? When George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor's mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader George's nemesis, and a man capable of great brutality. Family secrets threaten to overwhelm...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-07-21
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Robyn Young is a compelling voice in historical fiction, writing in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Manda Scott. This is the epic second novel in the million-selling Brethren trilogy.It is 1274 and in the fortified city of Acre, the last major...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-07-21
Collection :
Brethren Trilogy
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The epic conclusion to the million-selling Brethren trilogy. A stunning, epic novel of war, savagery and the fall of the Templars in the tradition of Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell and Manda Scott.It is 1295.The Christian empire in the Holy Land lies in ruins and Will...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-07-21
Collection :
Brethren Trilogy
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