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The second book in Jean Plaidy's famous trilogy about Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.Married to Ferdinand after continual fears and disappointments, Isabella triumphed over every dangers, convinced of her true destiny. With the might of Portugal humbled, the Court of...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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One of history's most captivating true stories - the scandal-filled life of Lucrezia Borgia.In a castle in the mountains outside Rome, Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious family. Her father, who is to become Pope Alexander VI, receives his first...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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Continuing Jean Plaidy's popular Plantagenet series, here is the dramatic story of King Henry the Fifth's rise from wayward youngster to warrior king. Richard the Second is losing his hold on the crown and Henry of Bolingbroke, previously exiled by the king, returns to...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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_____________________The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs.In the 15th Century, Spain is full of intrigue and threatened by civil war. The independent young princess Isabella has become the...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-15
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Jean Plaidy's last French Revolution novel, featuring the tragic Marie Antoinette. At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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Power struggles threaten the throne and family harmony in this captivating historical page-turner from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy. Perfect for readers of Philippa Gregory...'Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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In ancient Rome, parents used to silence misbehaving children with the utterance 'Hannibal ad portas' (Hannibal is at the door). Such was the fear and awe that Hannibal Barca instilled...Told in arcing, epic technicolour, this is the story of one of the ancient world's...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-02-15
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In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own Queen Regent, Catherine de' Medici... When Catherine de' Medici was forced to marry Henry of Orleans, her's was not the only heart broken....
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-15
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If you like Philippa Gregory, you will love this vibrant and captivating historical page-turner from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - the perfect blend of history with romance and drama. 'Full - bloodied, dramatic, exciting' - THE...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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Banished from her father's sight and home since the age of four, wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when Jos Kerral forces her into an arranged marriage with Morgan Cosmore, the son of a local factory owner. Both fathers hope the union will save their ailing...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-02-09
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Robbed of marriage to the man she loved, Leah Bryce rears his daugther Miriam as her own. But her bitterness and desire for vengeance lead her to treat the girl with extreme cruelty, and when Miriam falls pregnant, Leah refuses to let her marry the father of her child....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-02-09
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A dramatic tale of a wronged woman who rises above adversity to grasp love and happiness at last. For fans of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson.Shocked beyond measure at her wrongful imprisonment, Phoebe Pardoe finds it hard to adjust to the harshness of life in the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-02-09
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Raped and left pregnant by her drunken father, Anna Bradley knows she must abandon her baby and make a new life if her son is to have a future. As luck would have it, she is befriended by Maggie Fellen, and under her gruff but tender care, Anna builds up a successful...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-02-09
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In a world at war, a brother and sister seek revenge...Another drama-drenched story in a truly epic historical series.They were born in the middle of a battle, into a world at war. And from their first moments of life, twins Satyrus and Melitta were fighting for...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-02-03
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Tyrant
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In the remote forests of Mauritius, young Raj is almost oblivious of the Second World War raging beyond his tiny exotic island. With only his mother for company while his father works as a prison guard, solitary ever since his brothers died years ago, Raj thinks only of...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2011-02-03
ePub
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Bolitho adventure from our best-loved navel writer, Douglas Reeman writing as Alexander Kent.It is January 1819, and Captain AdamBolitho ships out from Falmouth bound for Freetown, on the old the slave coast of Africa. H.M.S. Onward carries sealed orders in the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-03
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Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping into the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. She keeps a clean house and a tight hold on her magpie nature, restricting her interests to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-31
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Early nineteenth century New Zealand the great chief Te Rauparaha has conquered tiny Kapiti Island, from where Ngati Toa launches brutal attacks on its southern enemies. Off the coast of Kapiti, English trader John Stewart seeks to trade with Te Rauparaha, setting off...
Editeur :
Nz Epenguin
Parution :
2011-01-31
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My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira is an epic historical novel about a brilliant young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the American Civil War.Mary Sutter, a brilliant young midwife, dreams of proving herself as capable as any man. But medical schools...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-01-27
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'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on Sunday Celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - Clara Schumann was also the wife of Robert Schumann, the mother of his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-25
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