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Inghilterra 1817. Lucas Benedict e Georgiana Eagle, finalmente marito e moglie, si godono la luna di miele nel Mediterraneo a bordo della Thalia. Non tutto, però, procede secondo i piani. Nonostante i numerosi scali e le distrazioni offerte dal viaggio, Georgiana non riesce a non pensare alla sua famiglia: la mancanza di notizie dall'Inghilterra le fa sospettare che qualcosa di terribile sia accaduto ai suoi cari. Come se non bastasse, anche Lucas si comporta in modo anomalo, alternando nei confronti della moglie inspiegabili fasi di ostilità a momenti di inarrestabile passione.

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Brought to you by Penguin. They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and...

December, 1923. Ruby Vaughn is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing trip to Oxford in the week before Christmas with her octogenarian housemate and colleague Mr Owen. Far away from the arcane, unusual—and occasionally illegal—books that seem to always get her into trouble. The most she expects to do is attend a handful of his antiquarian society meetings. But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is amongst his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities looted by Napoleon, panic spreads throughout the cobbled streets of Oxford.

Hattie Greenfield hat ihr behütetes Leben satt. Selbst ihr Kunststudium scheint sie nicht weiterzubringen. Doch wegen eines kleinen Fehltritts mit dem berüchtigten Lucian Blackstone vor dem Altar zu stehen, war auch nicht ihr Plan. Nun hat sie einen düsteren Schotten am Hals, der sie offenbar eiskalt manipuliert hat. Obwohl Hattie die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen nicht leugnen kann, leistet sie ihm und ihren verräterischen Gefühlen entschlossen Widerstand.

Er verkörpert alles, was sie verabscheut, und doch ist er ihre größte Versuchung! Lucie Tedbury, die junge Anführerin der Frauenrechtsbewegung in Oxford, ist außer sich vor Wut. Ihre Nemesis, der berüchtigte Tristan Ballentine sabotiert ihren Plan, Tausende Leserinnen von Frauenzeitschriften für ihre Sache zu gewinnen. Doch dann macht der junge Adlige ihr ein skandalöses Angebot: Eine Nacht mit ihm und er wird das Feld räumen. Lucie hätte nicht gedacht, dass sie ihn noch mehr verabscheuen könnte. Doch sie muss sich eingestehen, dass Tristan ihr Blut nicht nur durch sein unverschämtes Auftreten in Wallung bringt.

Sie kämpft für ihre Rechte und für ihre Liebe! Annabelle Archer ist überglücklich, dass sie als eine der ersten Frauen überhaupt in Oxford studieren darf. Als Gegenleistung für ihr Stipendium soll sie die Frauenbewegung unterstützen. Es gelingt ihr durch ein geschicktes Manöver, auf das Landgut des einflussreichen Sebastian Devereux eingeladen zu werden - diesen für ihre Sache zu gewinnen, wäre unbezahlbar! Von Anfang an fliegen die Funken zwischen ihr und dem kühlen Herzog, der fasziniert ist von ihrer Intelligenz und Willenskraft.

Quatre vendeuses de Harpers, grand magasin d'Oxford Street, sont déterminées à réussir tant professionnellement que personnellement. Vivant sous un même toit, elles pourront se soutenir en cas de coup dur, ou se réjouir quand la première d'entre elles annoncera ses fiançailles. Des amours naissent dans le deuxième volet de cette série addictive, par l'une des autrices les plus populaires d'Angleterre.

Oxford, 1883. Young men are being found bound, gagged, and hooded at the gates of their colleges in the small hours. Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow, is asked by the senior proctor to investigate. But investigating matters of sexual purity is dangerous, as it lays Basil open to unwelcome scrutiny of his own private life. Meanwhile, the University Vice Chancellor's Court has wrongly imprisoned a young shopgirl from the town, and she seeks the services of Non Vaughan, a young academic and budding journalist, to clear her name.

Soon to be a Netflix Film Starring Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest! Award-winning and fan-favorite voice actor Julia Whelan narrates her own novel, a sparkling debut set amidst the breathtaking beauty of Oxford, tells the unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to make her...

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.Kipling’s famous story of Mowgli’s adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Tom Wrought escapes America's Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When Liz's husband is pushed in front of a train in the London Underground, Tom is immediately arrested for the murder. Scotland Yard is convinced it has its man, as he had means, motive, and opportunity.

An Army soldier – an ex-drunk – is brutally killed and a note suggests that the Salvation Army’s shadowy enemy, the Skeleton Army, is responsible. With the police unwilling to come between the two forces, Non Vaughan, aspiring journalist and great hope of the Oxford women’s college movement, and Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow and union-sanctioned guardian of the dead man’s family, are compelled to investigate.

Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks like a drowning. Soon, however, Nicholas finds evidence of murder. Who could have wanted to kill this promising student? As Nicholas and his scholar friend Jordain try to unravel what lies behind William's death, they learn that he was innocently caught up in a criminal plot.

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding...

Bloomsbury presents The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley, read by Thomas Judd. WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016 FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016 An International Bestseller / A Guardian Summer Read / An...

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.They don’t see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost – much, much worse.

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens – and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Frances Hodgson Burnett original by Clare West.

The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder. ‘John the Pupil’ is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarrantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon...

Her Frozen Heart is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose. Caitlyn, there's something I have to tell you. About Sara. Caitlyn thinks her marriage to Patrick is a success. For one thing, he is one of the few people not to fall head over heels for her...