Sagas

William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force....

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975....

A story about love. And how life can get in the way…Cecelia Ahern's bestselling novel Where Rainbows End is now a major film entitled Love, Rosie...

The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known....

Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer....

As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country....

Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp....

Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him....

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century....

Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is a rake, a spy, and a soldier, richer than sin and twice as handsome. Now he is also guardian to his deceased best friend’s young son. The choice makes perfect sense - except that the child’s mother is the lovely Sophia Gardiner....

From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America’s first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor....

Nur widerwillig reist Sterneköchin Isa Petersen von London in ihren verschlafenen Heimatort in Schleswig-Holstein. Die geliebte Oma hat ihr den kleinen Dorfkrug vermacht. Hier in der Küche vom "Seestern" ist Isa zwischen Töpfen und Pfannen groß geworden. Denn Mutter Jette hat die Familie früh verlassen. Jetzt sollen die beiden Frauen gemeinsam am Herd stehen und den letzten Willen der Oma erfüllen. Aber es kracht gewaltig zwischen ihnen. Und nur mit der Hilfe von Tim, Isas altem Schulfreund, haben sie eine Chance, den kleinen Gasthof zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.

London, 1940. After her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Evelyn decides to do her part for the war effort by signing up for construction work on Waterloo Bridge. Grieving after her little boy dies in an air raid, Gwen is completely lost when her husband sends their younger children to the countryside for safety. Enlisting as a construction worker, she is partnered with cheerful Evelyn. The two women strike up a heartwarming friendship. 

Manchester, 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching pedant, she finally decides she'd rather be a surplus girl than marry a man she doesn't truly love. Aware of the need to support herself if she is to remain single all her life, she joins a secretarial class to learn new skills and a whole world opens up to her.  

La misteriosa lettera che Alex Fisher ha scritto prima di suicidarsi potrebbe avere ripercussioni devastanti per molte persone, specie se il suo contenuto diventasse di dominio pubblico. Lo sa bene Sir Giles Barrington, posto di fronte a un bivio: sceglierà la carriera politica o proverà a salvare la donna che ama, prigioniera oltre la Cortina di ferro? Lady Virginia, ormai sull'orlo della bancarotta, dispera di trovare una via d'uscita. Finché non le presentano Cyrus T. Grant III, scapolo d'oro americano giunto a Londra per vedere la sua puledra correre ad Ascot.

Der zweite Band der Bestseller-Serie Die Wunderfrauen: Vier starke Frauen zwischen Wirtschaftswunder und Hippiezeit, zwischen Nylons und Emanzipation, zwischen Liebe und Freundschaft. Zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre stimmen die Errungenschaften der Frauenbewegung, die neuartige Pille und die vielen neuen Möglichkeiten Luise zuversichtlich, außerdem ist in ihrem kleinen Laden viel zu tun, er ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Voller Tatendrang plant sie einen Umbau - sie möchte mit der Zeit gehen und Selbstbedienung anbieten.

The Adams family were poor, cheerful and, above all, respectable. There was Mrs Adams, a widow having lost her husband in the Boer War; Boots, the bright one; Tommy, the quiet one; Sammy, a wheeler dealer in the making; and Lizzy. Lizzy was a real pearl - one of the prettiest girls in Walworth. Then Lizzy falls in love it is 1914. War is coming, and everyone is going to be affected. Will the Adams family - gutsy, tough and cheeky - pull through? Down Lambeth Way is the first in Mary Jane Staples' Adams Family series. Their story continues in Our Emily.