20th Century

Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo – are drawn together in a small Baltic city in 1989, just as the DDR begins to collapse around them.

War is frightening, but so is the man who would possess her. HONG KONG - 1941 One sultry evening at the Victoria Hospital for Women, Dr Rowena Rossiter is off-duty and in search of fun. With the world on the brink of war, she meets two men, Connor O’Connor, a rough Irish soldier and Kim...

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). ‘Somehow, she...

The Mayfair Ladies' Club survived the Blitz — but can it survive betrayal? September 1944. Deirdre Rowan is a spirited Irish receptionist at the exclusive Mayfair Ladies’ Club in London. When new manager Maxwell Forster arrives, Deirdre is immediately attracted to him. But Max has a secret...

Marseille, France, 1941. Zelie Bellerose never fit the mold of an army officer’s wife. She was too passionate in her convictions, too indifferent to societal expectations. After her husband is killed in the war, Zelie focuses on securing a brighter future for her children, hoping to help free her country from the Nazi regime by joining the Resistance. She is soon one of the most trusted operatives in Alliance, and when their leader is imprisoned, she takes command, hiding her identity from all but a few.

A passionate young artist falls disastrously in love with a woman he can never truly have. What begins as longing soon becomes obsession, drawing him deeper into a world where beauty, desire, and despair are impossible to separate. Set against the restless intensity of youth, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a timeless portrait of emotional excess — the kind of love that feels larger than life and more dangerous because of it.

Cable Girls meets Peaky Blinders meets Titanic The girls had forged a bond together like iron that could not be broken. Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian were on the brink of making history with their powerful feminist movement, but then they suddenly disappeared without a trace. Alexander...

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling book about the choices we make and the chances we never dreamed we'd be given. 1931. The height of the Depression, Sydney, New South Wales They were diamonds: beautiful, sparkling and irresistible. Nice girls do not accept employment from...

Corren los primeros días de enero de 1903 y el profesor Alexander Quills, un hombre sabio que estudia las nuevas ciencias que exploran el mundo del más allá, vuelve a su casa de Oxford después de asistir a unas conferencias en Londres. Oliver Saunders, joven y tímido, trabaja mientras tanto en su pequeño cuarto de Balliol College, rodeado de diccionarios y novelas, y Lionel Lennox, amante de la buena vida y de las mujeres, está en Egipto, a punto de profanar la tumba de una princesa para llevarse una joya de inestimable valor.

Sicilia, inizio Novecento. A Castellatani gli uomini sono destinati a respirare la polvere dello zolfo. La grande miniera sulla collina è un dio crudele che divora i carusi e restituisce sudore, fatica e una promessa di lavoro. Teresa è cresciuta con un desiderio più grande della sua età: diventare maestra e insegnare ai bambini del paese come sognare un mondo migliore. Ma in una realtà in cui le scelte sono già scritte dalla tradizione, la sua vita si intreccia con quella di Giovanni, uno zolfataro che conosce i cunicoli sotterranei come le stanze di casa.