Illyrian Spring
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
Author | Sophie Kinsella |
ISBN | 1787631974 |
Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic!
The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.
One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
Author | Jessie Burton |
ISBN | 1509886141 |
The sensational new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is...
Author | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
ISBN | 0671534297 |
This novel observes the Cazalet families and extended families after the war, from July 1945 to the summer of 1947.
Casting off, as a term used in knitting, is the finishing row of whatever article is being knitted. It denotes the ending – a completion. Paradoxically, when people cast off...
Author | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
ISBN | 0671527940 |
In this second of the five Cazalet Chronicles, I was impressed once again with Elizabeth Jane Howard’s writing. These are not short novels, yet there is never a dull moment – there is always something interesting going on in their lives.
This story picks up a year after the last one left off....
Author | Natasha Lester |
ISBN | 0733640028 |
Inspired by the incredible true story of Lee Miller, Vogue model turned one of the first female war photojournalists, the new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress
Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned...
Author | Cathy Kelly |
ISBN | 0007240457 |
Après soixante-dix ans passés à New York, Eleanor Levine revient s'installer dans sa ville natale : Dublin. Avec ses maisons en briques rouges, son petit parc et son salon de thé cosy, Golden square est l'endroit rêvé pour un retour aux sources. Eleanor y rencontre Megan, une actrice fuyant les...
Author | Val McDermid |
ISBN | 0802122043 |
Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they’re not talking doesn’t mean the killing stops.
Someone is killing women. Women who bear an unsettling resemblance to Carol Jordan. And...