At the turn of the century, the North of England was a hard, bleak world, where joy and love were words in someone else's book; where men were resigned and women oppressed. Rebellious and beautiful Maggie flew in the face of that harshness, and found that her passion was to cost her dearly.
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known, material that appeared in small magazines but was never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto ha...
`You looked for a moment as if you might be going to smile at me,' he remarked. `But I see I was mistaken; I suspect your smiles are precious and you hoard them so they are seen only by very special people.' Anna is a child living in a remote Hebridean community when she meets the enigmatic and romantic Jimmy Pearl. She carries the memory of their meeting through to adult life - a life that is full of hardships. Anna's parents die and her brother and his wife sell the family croft, forcing Ann...
One of the grandest love stories ever told, set in 18th century England and France. For Roger Montgeoffry, the handsome and talented Earl of Devane, it was a marriage of convenience; for his bride, Barbara Alderly, it was alove match. But there were considerable obstacles to overcome: Barbara's father had fled to France, disgraced as a Jacobite traitor; her mother, the lovely Diana, was notorious throughout George I's court for her very public love affairs. The projected match brings Barbara fro...
Carla Bracato, a history buff, tries to get away from the grief left by the deaths of her father and her infant daughter. The Santa Fe Trail provides her path of escape and she begins the journey at Fort Leavenworth. There she meets affable Dale Jackson, another history buff, and his son, Tom, who is Carla's age. They agree to rendezvous at other stops. At Fort Riley, Carla recounts the tale of George and Libby Custer during their passion-filled summer of 1867. At other stops she recounts more a...
In this emotional novel based on Greece's real history we follow three generations of one family, broken apart by secrets and war, as Olivia travels to the island of her mother's birth to piece together a century's worth of her family's past. On the Greek island of Castellorizo young SofĂa must put her big dreams on hold to support her older sister Maria with her large family. But World War II is looming and while the idyllic island may seem far from harm at first, there are unspeakable danger...