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A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women...

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

A selection of Euripides’ renowned Greek tragedies, adapted for BBC Radio Acclaimed by Aristotle as ‘the most tragic of the poets’, Euripides was one of the pre-eminent playwrights of 5th century Athens. Included here are seven of his masterpieces: powerful, shocking tales of passion...

"An expansive, breathtaking tale . . ." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen "Readers will race to the end, not wanting to put this book down . . . Highly recommended." —The Historical Novel Society, Marlie Wasserman "Hope Tarr's Irish Eyes is romantic, lyrical...

Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander) from OBE‑honoured, award‑winning author Barbara Taylor Bradford One girl. One secret. One unstoppable ascent. In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and...

ENEMIES BY BIRTH. BROTHERS IN BLOOD. VENGEANCE WILL BE HAD. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. The warrior king is dead. Ralph Courtney and Ann Waite have escaped. From the chaos and bloodshed that consumed the...

Sephardic Jew Mathilda Nissim watches in horror as the Germans invade her beloved city of Salonika, Greece. What angers her most is the lack of resistance her people put up to their captors. In secret and at great risk to her life, she continues to publish her newspaper, calling her people to action. She doesn't trust God to help them. When she and her husband find out they are expecting a child, Mathilda may have to resort to desperate measures to ensure her daughter's survival.

Une fois son cadet parti de la maison, Julie se sent libérée des obligations familiales. Elle est amoureuse comme jamais de son William et redécouvre les joies de la vie à deux. Mais un soir, lors d'un congrès où elle est honorée, un événement tragique fait en sorte que sa vie bascule en l'espace de quelques minutes. S'ensuit une longue période de silence et de solitude, qui sème l'incompréhension autour d'elle. Julie aura-t-elle le courage de s'ouvrir à ses proches sur ce qu'elle a vécu? Saura-t-elle reprendre confiance en elle et en la vie ?

Réjanne s'est toujours sentie redevable envers Haïti, le pays qui lui a donné Geoffroy, son fils adoptif. Après un voyage d'un mois à Jacmel, ce sentiment vibre encore plus fort en elle. Elle décide de mettre sur pied une fondation dans le but de reconstruire l'orphelinat qui a été détruit par le tremblement de terre, en 2010.

Hélène s'est difficilement remise du décès d'Étienne et, depuis cette épreuve, elle a renoncé à l'amour. Elle est donc la première surprise d'éprouver une attirance envers Gabriel Delisle, un client qui la consulte pour une cause de divorce. Question d'éthique professionnelle, Hélène et Gabriel choisissent d'attendre la fin des procédures pour laisser libre cours à leur amour naissant. Mais le jour où ils peuvent enfin vivre leur idylle, voilà qu'un terrible obstacle les sépare et jette une ombre sur leur nouvelle relation.

Del 1 av 20. Natten till den 1 januari 1900 föds två barn i Losvika i Norge. Samma natt går lotsbåten med deras fäder under ute till havs. Både Jon och Julie växer upp faderlösa och deras liv vävs för alltid samman, med Hotell Havblikk som den fasta punkten i deras tillvaro. Sjutton år gamla drar Jon till sjöss och Julie tar arbete som husa på Hotell Havblikk. På hotellet måste hon handskas med överklassen från Kristiania, väninnans hemligheter och sin egen gryende förälskelse.

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction, Send for Me moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.

Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence. Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge.

Here is the spellbinding story of Abby Mason - photographer, fiancée, soon-to-be stepmother - and the consequences of her greatest error. Heartbreaking, uplifting, and beautifully told, it is a riveting tale of how life can change in an instant, of the search for the truth behind a child's disappearance, and of one woman's unwavering faith in the redemptive power of love.

Told with exceptional grace and read beatifully by Indira Varma, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable...

Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes...

Brought to you by Penguin. TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARI Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains...

Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steel's novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman - a good woman - who triumphs against overwhelming odds. More than compelling fiction, her story is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courage - and a testament to the human will to survive.

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom were first introduced in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons.

Brought to you by Penguin. *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* The mesmeric new novel from the author of the award-winning global bestseller, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS Outback Western Australia, 1958: for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million...