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A wonderful new novel from Liverpool’s best-loved author. A tale of loss and love set in post-Second World War England and France.This is the story of a young Liverpool woman widowed in the Second World War before she can know the happiness of having a family. With the blessing of her mother, with whom she runs a B&B, she goes to Normandy to see where her husband was killed in the D-Day landings. …
Граф Алексей Орлов прежде всего известен тем, что он был одним из главных организаторов дворцового переворота, который привел на престол Екатерину II. Вскоре после этого ее муж Петр III был убит при непосредственном участии Алексея Орлова, так что многие обвиняли последнего в цареубийстве. В мемуарах графа Алексея Григорьевича Орлова, записанных его секретарем, излагается собственная версия этих с…
«Каменный Пояс» – эпическое полотно, охватывающее период русской действительности от конца XVII века до 70-х годов XIX века. И хотя стержнем повествования служит история рода уральских горнозаводчиков Демидовых – от сметливого кузнеца Никиты, зачинателя «дела», до немощного, развращенного роскошью Анатолия, князя Сан-Донато, завершившего родословную, – главным героем трилогии является талантливый,…
«Каменный Пояс» – эпическое полотно, охватывающее период русской действительности от конца XVII века до 70-х годов XIX века. И хотя стержнем повествования служит история рода уральских горнозаводчиков Демидовых – от сметливого кузнеца Никиты, зачинателя «дела», до немощного, развращенного роскошью Анатолия, князя Сан-Донато, завершившего родословную, – главным героем трилогии является талантливый,…
On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley. So later, during the show, I mentioned this, asking the audience 'Is that your rival town?' And the room went chillingly quiet, until one woman called out with understated menace, 'Keighley is a sink of evil.'Based on his award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, Mark Steel's ‘In Town’, is a celebration o…
Rich. Beautiful. Damned.Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival.October 1929: As America helterskelters through the last days before the great crash the cream of Hollywood parties heedlessly on.Beneath the sophistication and elegan…
Did you love Memoirs of a Geisha? Want to be swept away by an epic tale of intrigue, forbidden love and deadly rivalries?A poor orphan girl is saved by a rich man and brought Shanghai.She becomes a beautiful and sophisticated singer, the talk of the town, wanted by every man.But her destiny is not to be so simple – lies, seduction and a terrible choice must follow…For fans of Anchee Min and Memoir…
STAND AND DELIVER! Incorrigible Jack Beaufort, Earl of Frensham, with a scandal at his heels, is taking an enforced sojourn in the country. He hardly expects to confront a highwayman in this quiet retreat. Or to discover, when he lays hands on the villain, a form that is undeniably female…Should he unmask the daring Miss Lacey and hand her over to the law? Or follow his rakish instincts to take th…
A powerful saga from the author of DAUGHTER OF MINE and DANNY BOY, in which a young girl is forced to give up her true love and marry for security – except that it leads her to danger and heartbreak before she finds happiness.Maria is a girl with a great talent for fabric design, and while the world becomes embroiled in war, all she can think of is her scholarship to the prestigious Grafton Academ…
From Liverpool’s best-loved author comes a superb novel of loss and grief, love and hope, set on Merseyside in 1920.When her husband dies suddenly, Louise Gilmore and her daughters Edna and Celia are left with nothing but debts.Forced to move from their fine Liverpool house with servants to a run-down cottage in Hoylake, the three women must learn to make their way in an entirely new world.Althoug…
While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and wit…
Антон Чехов и Лика Мизинова, Наполеон и Александр I, великие князья Константин Николаевич и Константин Константинович, Иван Бунин и Иннокентий Смоктуновский – лишь некоторые из действующих лиц этой книги. Элла Матонина – мастер исторической беллетристики. На страницах ее произведений герои прошлого оживают, становятся зримыми и понятными читателю, не теряя в то же время достоверности: художественн…
