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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.

Characters you'll come to love and a story that keeps you turning the page.' Rosie Goodwin THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE MUCH-LOVED DOVER CAFE WWII SAGA SERIES Dover, January 1942 The war is closing in on every shore, and when Marge Atkinson is assigned to an elite group of Wrens, chosen to teach war...

The fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s Jane Austen sequel series, which finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney investigating a suspicious murder at Netherfield Park “With wit, charm, and a pitch perfect Regency voice, Claudia Gray expertly conjures...

England, 1889. In her family’s rambling manor house in Dorset, fifteen-year-old Theodora Hallewell dreams of magic, adventure, and Toby Meriwether. As Toby prepares to leave for university, Theo plans a midnight gathering—one last chance to make Toby notice her. By dawn, a tragic mistake will shatter the world as they know it.

A secret lies behind every door… The Dordogne, 1936 Amid tangled gardens and crumbling walls, Chateau Rousseau guards its secrets well. Pushing open its faded door, Thirza Caruthers arrives to care for her great-aunt. She's made a promise – unaware of what awaits. As the skies darken above...

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...

East London, 1943: As air raid sirens wail, can the East End Girls join forces to protect their city and the people they love? Nell Reilly’s blonde curls and piercing blue eyes might look angelic, but she is ready to fight with everything she has for a better future. Brought up in London’s tough East End, she is fiercely determined to keep the promise she made to her little sister Jo to build a new life for them one day. Until a chance meeting changes everything…

He lives in a world all his own, and I must visit him there, for he will seldom enter mine… When three-year-old Edward Bennet's tantrums provoke her uncle's violence, Elizabeth seizes her brother and flees to the isolated hunting lodge of Fox Hollow. Neddy lives in a world of his own, understanding horses better than words, fascinated by creatures while struggling to grasp the simplest social rules. The Philipses, now ensconced at Longbourn, have already decided: the boy is defective, best forgotten, and certainly not fit to become the master of Longbourn.

From the highly acclaimed author of The Shackleford Sisters, Beverley Watts, comes an exciting new series featuring the next generation. The Shackleford Legacies are a delightful dance of romance, humour, mystery and fun... Henrietta Carew has always been practical, sensible, and generally...

Even as her heart is pulled in two directions, Helena fights to save Sparta in the face of a tyrannical king, in this romantasy retelling of Helen of Troy. Sparta is dying. Gods once ruled the land, until King Menelaus cast them out and crowned himself in their place. Now, drought scorches the...

Henry Bennet is a second son born in 1739. His father, Thomas Bennet, concentrates all of his energy on his heir, James, who is more than 10 years older than Henry. The father has no use for his daughter, Felicity, who is 6 years Henry’s senior.

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...

From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London society comes an exquisite tale of an elfin beauty, a vengeful lord, and a wild, sweet love that is sheer poetry. With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned...

In this sexy regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long, a lady on the edge of ruin must plead with the king of London’s underworld to save her family, only to find herself instead caught in his web...and unable to resist him. One disastrous night. One devastating man. One...

Mr. Bingley leaves Hertfordshire after his ball, throwing the Bennet family into turmoil and Jane Bennet into despair. Sensing an opportunity, Mr. Collins capitalizes on this event to stoke Mrs. Bennet's fears in his attempt to force Elizabeth Bennet's to accept him, but Elizabeth remains firm...

Have you ever wondered why the battle between your head and your heart is the hardest fight of all? Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is a brilliant exploration of the two conflicting forces that drive human behavior: the restraint of social convention and the overwhelming power of raw emotion.

He's carrying a torch... Graham MacNeil wants nothing to do with the family earldom, much less with a drafty castle full of rumgumptious relatives, or with the nosy neighbors determined to inspect the prodigal laird. His sole reason for returning from exile is to discover the truth behind the...

Have you ever wondered why silence is sometimes the loudest voice of all? Mansfield Park is widely considered Jane Austen's most ambitious and psychologically complex novel. Unlike her lighter works, this story delves into the quieter, more resilient strength of the human spirit, exposing the fragility of Regency social order and the profound difference between superficial charm and genuine moral worth.

Have you ever wondered why first impressions are so often wrong, and why love has a way of finding us when we least expect it? Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a brilliant dissection of human nature and the delicate dance of courtship. In a world where financial security depends on marriage, Elizabeth Bennet refuses to settle. When the enigmatic Mr. Darcy arrives, their initial clash of pride and prejudice gives way to one of literature's most compelling emotional journeys.

After four weary years on the marriage mart, Cecilia longs for an appealing match – or maybe, shockingly, no match at all. So when she and her sisters discover they are unexpectedly heiresses to a substantial Suffolk estate, Cecilia dares to imagine a future shaped by her own choosing. There is, however, one strict condition: to secure their inheritance, none of the sisters may become engaged for a full year.

The Fire at Netherfield Park opens with Charles Bingley's famous ball. Smoke soon seeps into the room, rapidly turning the event from frivolous to dire. Determined to save everyone, Darcy enlists Elizabeth's aid in urging the disbelieving assemblage to depart. Darcy and Elizabeth prove as noble...

It is the year 1803, and George Wickham the Scoundrel, has done it again. This time, however, he has not just lost his allowance. He has gambled away the Darcy family's Emerald Snuffbox to a Covent Garden crime lord known only as The Butcher. Fitzwilliam Darcy is twenty years of age, honourable...

Emma Woodhouse è una ragazza dotata di bellezza e intelligenza oltre che di denaro; il padre vedovo stravede per lei, la vizia e la ricopre di attenzioni da quando era piccola. Il risultato è che Miss Woodhouse è diventata una signorina vanitosa, egocentrica e molto sicura di sé che non si fa scrupolo di dichiarare apertamente di non essere interessata né all'amore né al matrimonio. Al contrario, la sua protetta Harriet Smith, di origini molto più modeste, è alla ricerca disperata di un marito che le garantisca una buona sistemazione; il matrimonio è la sua unica ragione di vita.

Her marriage was arranged. Her death might be too. Whisked off to Yorkshire in an arranged marriage, Lady Madelyn strives to make her dreams of love come true. She soon learns her husband, the Lord of Montrose, scarred during his stint in the King's service, suffers even deeper wounds from the...

A lady on a mission . . . Lady Harriet Parrish never dreamed of having a London season. She's been content to live a life of comfortable obscurity in her sleepy corner of Kent, but when her dearest childhood friend, the newly crowned Earl of Windham ends their secret correspondence and embarks...