The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France..Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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Jean Plaidy's popular Plantagenet series continues with this, the tenth volume.Richard of Bordeaux, young heir to the throne after Edward the Third, is surrounded by ambitious uncles who believe it would be better for the country if they could take the crown. While...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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This is the captivating story of Princess Mary - royal treasure, royal pawn and royal rebel. Fans of Philippa Gregory will love this gripping page-turner from international multi-million copy bestseller Jean Plaidy.'Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07
Collection : Tudor Saga
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The final title in the captivating Victorian series.Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales and Kate Medhurst, from a genteel town in the Thames Valley, embark upon an idyllic love...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the rich to give to the poor - but there is no historical proof to back this up. The early...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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Multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy expertly brings the rise and fall of Edward III to life in this captivating historical page-turner. Fans of Philippa Gregory will not be disappointed.'Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting.' --...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-07

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For one young woman, life has been far from easy. But the biggest threat to her future happiness will be her own flesh and blood... In Lynda Page's Any Old Iron, a young woman's devotion to her family can't prevent the heartache and tragedy that is in store for them...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-11-25

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With neither family nor a penny to her name, her future looks bleak. Until, that is, she has a chance encounter with a kind-hearted man... Lynda Page writes a compelling saga in At the Toss of a Sixpence, in which a young woman overcomes past tragedies with the help of...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-11-25

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Since the death of her husband May Jeffries has struggled to provide for her only child, Jenny. Even now that Jenny’s working in a Leicester china shop, things are not easy. Jenny thinks that part of the problem could be the good-for-nothing men that her mother can't...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-11-25

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To find happiness, they must reconcile the past and present... Pearl is a moving and powerfully engaging story of three sisters, marked by a family tragedy, from acclaimed author Deirdre Purcell. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy and Catherine Dunne.'A sweeping love...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2010-11-25

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Vanity Fair in half the timeBecky Sharp is the most alluring yet ruthless heroine ever to climb the social ladder. From sordid bohemian beginnings she moves upwards through Regency society, betraying her husband, her friend Amelia and all who cross her in her...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-11-18

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Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work foran advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble whenSimon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B....

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2010-11-15

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The year is 1453. For more than a thousand years the mighty walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the furthest outpost of Christianity. But now endless ranks of Turkish warriors cover the plains before them, their massive...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-11-11

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!THE LEGION is the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.'Scarrow's [novels] rank with the best' IndependentEgypt,...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-11-11
Collection : Eagles of the Empire
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When Brian Duffy, an ageing soldier of fortune, is recruited in Venice by a strange old man to work as a bouncer in Vienna at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer is brewed, everything seems straightforward. But his journey is far from it. Pursued and attacked from...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-11-11

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*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR*** 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. ***** Russia, 1910.Young...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : Russian Concubine
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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Claudine Rafferty is rich, reckless and beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marriage with the eminently eligible but notorious François de Lorvoire, everyone in Paris is amazed. Determined to cope with François's cruelty and indifference,Claudine soon...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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The first book in the Insurrection trilogy, which tells the thrilling story of Robert the Bruce.1286 A.D. Scotland is in the grip of the worst winter in living memory. Some say the Day of Judgement has arrived.The King of Scotland rides out from Edinburgh into the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-10-14
Collection : Insurrection Trilogy
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