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SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican...

Mia Ferris' heart has always belonged in Spain. Every childhood summer was spent at her grandfather's hacienda, riding together amongst the olive trees or listening to his stories of the past. So when she learns that he has fallen from his horse, she knows that she belongs by his bedside - even if it means leaving behind her life in London, and her new fiancé. But as Leonardo fights for his life, and Mia to save the family home from financial ruin, secrets begin to emerge that tell a different story of the past.

One soldier disappeared before sunrise. The official record said he deserted. The evidence told a different story. In November 1917, Private Tavren Holt arrives at a military rest station in Brackenmere. By morning, his bed is empty, yet his coat, bag, and unfinished letter remain behind. Years...

He’s ex-Special Forces. They’re movie star elite. There is just one mission – save D-Day Dover, 1943. Suffering from undiagnosed battle fatigue, Chief Inspector Alex Sutherland is sent by Scotland Yard to find a killer. He unearths a world of black marketeering, clandestine tunnels and...

The first New World monkey and his journey to become the first American astronaut. People forget NASA started with a stolen rocket, a captive scientist, and a poached monkey. For seventy-five years, his story was buried, classified and redacted, until now. In 1938, a pregnant rhesus macaque is...

From the author of THE FOUNTAIN and ANNIE'S APPLE comes a story that spans decades of conflict and change. As World War I rages in Europe, the Carpenters and the Lees make a home in Southern California. Bill and Cassie add to their family. Andy and Annie start one of their own. Paul, a bachelor...

Um jovem prisioneiro judeu em Auschwitz. Um detetive obstinado. Uma descoberta que revela o lado mais obscuro da humanidade. Em O menino que desenhava as sombras, Oriana Ramunno estreia na literatura com uma obra que vai muito além dos campos de concentração nazistas.

A heartbreaking saga of hope, family, and longing set in one of the untold parts of war-torn Europe. Rhodes, 1940. Sixteen-year-old Dora Behar and her cousin Sarah are as close as sisters, planning their future and painting the sunsets that wash over the Mediterranean. But that was before the...

Lemberg, 1941. Die sechzehnjährige Nelka wird von Soldaten aufgegriffen und mit zahlreichen Mädchen und Frauen nach Westen verschleppt. Auf einem norddeutschen Gutshof werden sie zu schwerer Arbeit gezwungen. Ihr Vater hatte Nelka früh im Obstbau unterrichtet, und schon als Kind hatte sie ihm beim Veredeln der Apfelbäume geholfen.

Elle est venue enseigner. Elle va bouleverser leur vision de la vie. Canterbury, janvier 1916. Mayfield, pensionnat de garçons où règnent discipline et compétition, doit faire face au départ d'enseignants appelés sur le front. Pour la première fois, le lycée se résout à recruire une femme, Mary Campbell, venue spécialement d'Écosse. Très vite, cette femme mystérieuse fascine autant qu'elle dérange par ses méthodes hors norme qui lui attirent l'hostilité de ses collègues.

Ewer's Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, determined to leave this rural valley and make his mark on the twentieth century. Samantha Hatton, the minister's daughter, knows the town expects her and Roy to marry, but she hungers for more. The arrival of Ennis Duke - a mysterious wild boy...

Zum blauen Affen: 33 hanebüchene Geschichten von Walter Serner, gelesen von Holger Eberle. 33 böse, kleine Geschichten von Gaunern, Huren, Halunken und Halsabschneidern, Geschichten aus schummerigen Kneipen, zweifelhaften Etablissements und finsteren Winkeln. Aus der Ankündigung des...

Look for Pam Jenoff’s new novel, The Society of Forgotten Wives, a sweeping novel of missing husbands and buried secrets. For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons. Paris, 1919. Margot Rosenthal has arrived in France with her...

After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. What promises safety and purpose—for both Della and the terminally ill patients who come from across the country—hides a far...

A Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick A darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America—perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Percival Everett’s James. Axel Emerson isn’t chasing a dream—he’s running from...

Discover the next BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping wartime Harbour House series from BESTSELLER Fenella J Miller 1942: Chance has brought them together, will war keep them apart? Widowed Eloise Roby is surrounded by family at Harbour House, yet she can’t shake the feeling that something is...

Don't miss the second in a gripping series of post-WW1 mysteries, from international bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard.'The perfect marriage of thriller and whodunit' Simon Brett In a city on the brink of ruin, a...

The War had left him a shattered man, but its toll was not nearly so great as losing the love of his life. Few understand Elliot’s anguish at losing Nadine. He came back from the War a shattered and lonely man. But his return to the Eliot family refuge on England’s Hampshire coast is...

An electrifying new novel for readers of Joe Hill and Stephen King Beneath a hopeful new suburb carved from the echoes of war, an old hunger stirs, awakened by an itinerant stranger whose gifts reveal what the town has tried to bury: The past is not done feeding It’s 1952, and a dark force...

Gennaio 1946. Mentre Londra sta lentamente riemergendo dal buio della Seconda guerra mondiale, la scrittrice Juliet Ashton riceve una lettera misteriosa: un uomo le scrive dall’isola di Guernsey, dicendo di aver trovato il suo nome e il suo indirizzo all’interno di un vecchio libro. I due...