A chance meeting with a Japanese girl on a Brighton train . . . A night spent on the Bernina Pass trapped by snow . . . A terrifying experience during a childhood convalescence . . . These are a few of the real life incidents which inspired some of Winston Graham's stories in The Japanese Girl. Lovers of the Poldark saga will find two evocative Cornish tales amongst his stories of crime, the supernatural, the present and the past.
Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this uplifting and moving wartime saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "'The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era" -- WOMAN'S OWN"As comforting and nourishing as a hot milky drink on a stormy night" -- DAILY EXPRESS"A rip-roaring combination of high romance and breathless excitement" - MAIL ON SUNDAY"These are characters you will really care about" -- ***** Reader revi...
This work is set inIreland, 1912. Now in her fifties and a grandmother, Rose Hamilton has much to be thankful for in the steady love of her husband John and their relative prosperity. But she is concerned for her children: Sarah, recently widowed, is burdened with grief and worried by signs of trade union discontent in the Sinton family mills. Sam, married to cold, selfish Martha, is struggling to bring up his six children. Only Hannah, happily married and living in England, causes Rose no worry...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TITLE THE ORPHAN'S TALE OUT NOW Based in part on actual events, Kommandant's Girl is a compelling tale of love and courage in a dangerous and desperate times. Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewis...
Courtney's War (Courtney, #17) (Courtney Series: The Assegai Trilogy, #3)
by Wilbur Smith
The brand new Courtney Series novel, and the much-anticipated sequel to the global bestseller WAR CRY Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard - despite his objections to the Nazi regime - is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies. But as his unit is thrown into the hellish attrition of the Battle of Stalingrad, he knows his chances...
The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels. Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When...
Lady Claire Is All That (Keeping Up with the Cavendishes, #3)
by Maya Rodale
In the third installment of Maya Rodale's captivating, witty series, a marquess finds his fair lady-but must figure out how to keep her HER BRAINS...Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. As attractive as Fox is, he's of no use to Claire ...or is he? PLUS HIS BRAWN ....
Tiempos de tormenta / Tumultuous Times (LA MANSIÓN, #2) (La Mansion, #2)
by Anne Jacobs
Llega la segunda entrega de la exitosa nueva saga familiar de la autora de La villa de las telas. Los tiempos de tormenta requieren coraje, decisión y una profunda creencia en el amor. Suenan campanas de boda en la mansión de los Von Dranitz. Franziska y Walter finalmente se han reencontrado. Podría ser el comienzo de una nueva época feliz, pero todo se ve empañado por el conflicto entre las familias. ¿Puede cambiarse el destino o siempre estarán a merced de las crueles circunstancias que los...
Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) (Modern Fiction)
by Richard Yates
Hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs since it's publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only e...
