The Eagle in the Sand (Eagles of the Empire)

Edith and Oliver

Edith and Oliver fell in love after meeting in the glitzy world of the music hall in its Edwardian heyday. Edith is a spirited young

The Seeker: A Novel

It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of unrest across the country.

Forbidden

„La începutul secolului al XIX-lea Anglia, Josie, în vârstă de 16 ani, se află într-un loc sinistru, cu oameni misterioși, ostili, inclusiv rudele ei. Persistența

The Lion and the Lamb

Condemned to a hovel, beaten by a merciless commander, crushed by the weather and forced to survive on starvation rations: no one looking at Paul

And Some Fell on Stony Ground

Visceral, affecting fictionalised report of a bombing mission, from a former tailgunner shot down over Germany. Introduced by Richard Overy.

Murder at Crossways

In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final f te of the Newport social season. The party's over for a visiting prince found

Sir Gawain: Knight of the Goddess

Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur, was once the most important knight at Arthur's court, a shining example of all that was best in

An Octagon for the Curriers

In the early 1840s, an enterprising New Englander from Vermont moved to frontier Michigan. It was there in the Village of Almont, that he built

The Last Year of the War

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life

Stories from Suffragette City

A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million

Death Comes to Kurland Hall

'As wedding bells chime in Kurland St. Mary, a motley group of visitors descends on the village and with a murderer on the prowl, some

Name Upon Name

Belfast in 1916, and 14-year-old Helen is shaped by her mixed background--rural, Catholic Irish values from her mother urban, Protestant Ulster ones from dad. Her

The Suicide Run

The four narratives which make up this posthumous collection draw upon William Styron's experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into

The Dolocher

The Dolocher is stalking the alleyways of Dublin. Half man, half pig, this terrifying creature has unleashed panic on the streets. Can it really be

A Baby's Bones

Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of

The Saturday Girls

It's 1964. England has shaken off its post-war gloom and the world is full of possibilities. Best friends Sandra and Linda live on a housing

Girl from Cobb Street

She longed for a family of her own... Growing up in an orphanage on East London's Cobb Street, Daisy Driscoll never felt the warm heart

Victory for the Ops Room Girls

Cu Jess proaspăt promovată la funcția de ofițer de filtrare la RAF Fighter Command HQ, ea este încântată să se reîntâlnească cu Evie și May.

What is left the daughter

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involveme...

That Mad Ache

That Mad Ache , set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless

My Story - Great Plague

It's 1665, and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red

The Last Romantic

For more than seventy years Erich Maria Remarque's startlingly realistic and intensely moving anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front has remained a worldwide

NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES

For reader's of Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, or the works of Dan Brown, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost

Utter Chaos

Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the

Eagle in Exile (The Hesperian Trilogy #2)

In AD 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus was ordered to conquer Nova Hesperia and make it a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great

Eleazar, Exodus to the West

Michel Tournier's Eleazar, Exodus to the West is a modern successor to two seemingly disparate myths-the biblical adventure of the Exodus and the nineteenth-century myth

The Winter Warrior

Following the devastating destruction of the Battle of Hastings, William the Bastard and his men have descended on England. Villages are torched men, women and

FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT

Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A

Defectors

Simon, now a publisher in New York, is given the opportunity to read and publish his brother s memoir. He knows the US government will

Mrs. Dalloway

'One of her greatest achievements.' — The Guardian. Revolutionary in its psychological realism, this modernist masterpiece chronicles a day in the life of an upper-class...

SPARTACUS-MORITURI

Batiatus and Solonius vie with each other for the favor of one Marcus Licinius Crassus, an equites who aims at the praetorship. Thrilled by the

The Papal Decree

The Catholic Church's best-kept secret. The ancient scrolls which threaten that secret. And a journalist prepared to discover the truth at any cost. 1947, the

Sister Teresa

Northern Lights

Set in the frozen wilderness of north Minnesota, it concerns two brothers, one who served in Vietnam, and has returned tough, cynical and world-weary and

The Bobbin Girls

Alena Townsen is in love with Rob and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. But he is the only son of

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

The misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his incomparable personal gentleman, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. In this latest uproarious adventure, ...

War and Peace and Sonya

In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that

Beast

Jeremy Underwood is a long-serving subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Returning from holiday, he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside th...

Liverpool Angels

Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Mae Strickland is only a few days old when her mother suddenly dies. Her aunt Maggie brings

Way of All Flesh

A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, Scotland, co-written by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Maris...

Hornblower in the West Indies

1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas . . . As an admiral struggling to impose order in

Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

Keystone, West Virginia, 1910. In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows

Henderson's Boys Vol 5: The Prisoner

The fifth adventure in the Henderson's Boys series: find out how CHERUB began! One of Henderson's best agents is being held captive in Frankfurt. A

Sisters of War

A secret love. An impossible choice. For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Pam Jenoff, and Kate Furnivall comes this unforgettable tale of love, loss,

The Winter King

Guinevere, meanwhile, no gentle creature waiting patiently in the moonlight, has designs and plots of her own. The story of these characters and others is

Pack Up Your Troubles

The sixth and final book in the War at Home series by the author of The Morland Dynasty novels. Set against the evocative backdrop of

Daughter of the Dales

O saga emoționantă din Yorkshire, Daughter of the Dales este mult așteptatul final din trilogia Windfell Manor a lui Diane Allen. Moartea matriarhei familiei, Charlotte

Alamein

There are some battles that, had the other side won, would have totally altered the course of history. This is one of those battles ..

A Time for Renewal

In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild. In the town of

The Apple of Her Eye

Saga familiei lui Pam Evans aduce la viață Londra postbelică, pe măsură ce, pe fondul raționalizării și lipsei de alimente, o tânără își găsește pasiunea

Friends Forever

Două tinere descoperă că legătura prieteniei de-a lungul vieții le dă puterea de a-și păstra visele, în dificultatea Liverpool din anii 1920. În Friends Forever,

Dark Days For The Tabacco Girls

The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives

Young Bloods

Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led

The Hornet's Nest

The first work of fiction by a President of the United States--a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence. In his

A Silver Lining

In strictly chapel Pontypridd in 1938, tongues are quick to wag when Alma Moore, abandoned by her lover, is rushed to hospital with stomach pains.

You'll Never See Me Again

When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter and

This I know

Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist--compassionate, uncannily wise Grace--This I Know is a luminous

The War Girls of Goodwill House

With Lord Harcourt away fighting, Lady Joanna Harcourt and her daughter Sarah discover their life of luxury at Goodwill House is over. Lady Joanna is