The battlefields run with blood in this gripping finale to the bestselling Attila trilogy.The infamous leader of the Huns stills thirsts for blood and supremacy as he crosses the Danube and prepares to attack the Western Empire and face once more his boyhood...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-02-04

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Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009Artist, lover, wife, mother: can one woman be them all?Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grew up with a disillusioned mother and a father haunted by memories of war. But Jennet has a talent - and a passion - for art. When she...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-01-29

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The stunning sequel to Christian Cameron's epic TYRANT.Kineas, the Athenian cavalry commander, has come a long way since being dismissed from the army of Alexander and vengefully exiled by his own city. Together, his mercenary force and their Scythian allies have...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-01-22
Collection : Tyrant
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The secrets and tragedies of a family's past, and the far-reaching effects on succeeding generations of women...The women in Helena Mayrick's family have always led secretive and tragic lives, and when Helena's comfortable marriage is devastated by her husband's violent...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-01-08

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Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosamunde Pilcher and Dinah Jeffries will love this emotional and sweeping wartime romance set in Singapore from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.READERS ARE LOVING THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE! "Moving tale of bravery and human endurance...the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2009-01-01

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Sisters. Rivals. And the love of one man. Isabella and Beatrice d'Este are as different as night and day. Wordly and ambitious, Isabella's beauty and intellect are legendary across the courts of Europe, while her younger sister, a tomboy, prefers horses and the hunt....

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-12-26

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ONCE A RAKE, ALWAYS A RAKE!Gentle Reader, always remember that-and pray that I, Meredith Merriweather, heed my own warning. For I find myself caught in a scheme to prove that the notorious "former" scoundrel Lord Lansing, Alexander Lamont, is just as wicked as he always...

Editeur : Forever Yours
Parution : 2008-12-14

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A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'It's been a while since I had such fun reading a book' Daily Telegraph'Readers might feel they have reached the...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2008-12-11

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Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA Richard & Judy Book Club choice'A beautiful, ambitious novel . . . Emotionally resonant and perfectly rendered, I believed in every character, every sheep, every last blade of grass.' - Ann PatchettIn 1944, a German Jewish refugee...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-10-16

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A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the bestselling author of THE CITY OF LIES and LABYRINTH.1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la...

Editeur : Phoenix
Parution : 2008-09-18

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The Mill on the Floss in half the timeMaggie Tulliver's quick imagination is stifled by the claustrophobic constraints of family life in a provincial town. Her parents suppress her natural intelligence and instead focus their hopes and ambitions on her brother Tom....

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18

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Moby Dick in half the timeMoby Dick is the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the eccentric crew of a whaling ship, The Pequod. The ship...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18

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A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambition and betrayal - set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th centuryThe son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18

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1790 and England is on the cusp of war with Revolutionary France. The night-time Channel is the scene of intense smuggling activity and the passage of spies from one coast to another.Lieutenant James Hayter has achieved his heart's desire -- his first independent...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-09-11

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`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-09-11

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A SMALL PART OF HISTORY tells the story of one of the most epic journeys the settlers of America ever made, and finally does so from a woman's perspective. Remarkable. Inspiring. Heartbreaking.In the summer of 1845 Rebecca Springer and her family join the Oregon wagon...

Editeur : Tinder Press
Parution : 2008-09-04

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It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...'Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Discover a dazzling story of risk and dangerous liaisons... Beautiful, clever Arabella Fermor is seduced by charming Robert Petre, seventh baron of Ingatestone. Eager to secure herself a rich and handsome husband, Arabella cannot guess that the enigmatic Robert is...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Summer 1940. The evacuation of Dunkirk proves that the British can rise to a challenge, even against seemingly insurmountable odds. But now the soldiers walk the streets of Dover, even wandering through Woolworths store, and take weary turns on the town's skating...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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