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England, 1948. It’s been ten years since Lola arrived from Germany as a Jewish refugee. Even now, she can’t think about the family she lost, or her heartbreak will destroy her. Instead, Lola looks to the future: the new family she’s found working in a job she adores as an airline stewardess, and the butterflies she feels around handsome pilot Brian – though the thought of opening her heart again terrifies her.

A gripping mystery with a heart-breaking revelation, The Secrets Between Us is a sublimely satisfying story of lost love, betrayal and the dangers of war. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton's The Lake House and Dinah Jeffries' Before the Rains. High in the mountains in the South of France...

How far must you run to leave the past behind you? It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of...

Von Bild-#1-Bestsellerautorin Ada Caine: Die junge Hanna muss sich in ihrer Doppelrolle als Gouvernante und Komtess behaupten. Die verarmte Komtess Hanna begleitet die einflussreiche Gräfin Valeria als Gouvernante ihrer lebhaften Enkelin Antonia nach Heiligendamm. Dort besteht Gräfin Valeria darauf, dass Hanna sich wie ihr Schützling kleidet, sodass diese zwischen ihrer Rolle als Gouvernante und ihrer adeligen Herkunft hin- und hergerissen wird.

Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn. It’s 1964, and Iris’s memory is fading. She’s certain that only Emma can do justice to her novel about a murder on the Isle of Skye. When Emma ventures to Scotland for research, she discovers it isn’t fiction at all, but rather a true crime unsolved for more than fifty years.

She lost everything to war. But can she risk her heart again? Widowed and grieving, Eileen Bentley leaves bomb-scarred London for the rugged coast of Cornwall, determined to start over as housekeeper to her dear late husband's brother. But the war is never far behind. As air raids reach the...

'I was completely gripped from the very beginning… Draws you in so completely… A touching, memorable read that will stay with me for a long time… I'll definitely be looking out for the next in the series!' Reader review, ★★★★★ Young Beth Sherwin dreams of going to university –...

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

Outlander meets What the Wind Knows with a dash of The Tudors Claudia, Alex, and Marie embark on a perilous journey back through the swirling mists of time, their hopes pinned on averting a looming tragedy. As they navigate the tangled web of history, vivid memories of Alex and Claudia's...

Epic Love. Tragic Loss. Beautiful Friendship. The entrancing story of an orphan who grows up surrounded by the beautiful and the broken in the world's most infamous hotel. After her parents' deaths, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the hotel on...

A stirring, intimate novel inspired by the life of Marina’s paternal grandmother. Born into the elegant comfort of upper-class Russian society at the turn of the twentieth century, Zina yearns for independence and a life she can call her own. After the Bolsheviks topple the Czarist government...

1941, Giggleswick: Flora Whittaker runs The Cunning Vixen Inn, a small pub in the centre of the village. When her husband, Bill, re-enlists in the war, he leaves Flora to run the pub with the help of young May, the next-door neighbour’s daughter. Flora has several money-saving and illegal...

A compelling and lavish novel from the NYT bestselling author about a young woman striving to forget her part in the war by building life anew as the publicist at the just-launching House of Dior in Paris 1943. After spearheading several successful advertising campaigns in New York, PR wizard...

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the...

'[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+Publishing Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and...

For fans of KJ Charles's The Magpie Lord and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, this Lammy-nominated twentieth-century American romance follows a graduate student through a magical, queernorm version of the 1960s as he joins forces with an archivist to fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov...

Inspirado nos acontecimentos verídicos em torno da destruição da cidade de Iola nos anos 1960, Siga como um rio é a história de um amor avassalador, de pessoas que seguem em frente, fluindo e carregando tudo pelo caminho, ainda que diante de tantos obstáculos. Victoria Nash é apenas uma adolescente na década de 1940, mas já é responsável por todos os afazeres da casa, numa fazenda de pêssegos na cidadezinha de Iola, no Colorado – a única mulher num lar de homens cheios de problemas.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

Discover this spellbinding time-slip romance, perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Paige Toon. 'Phenomenal. Emotional. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn’t stop turning the pages' CECELIA AHERN 'This book made me cry sad tears...

An unforgettable, heart-wrenching story tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the...