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‘This book is a cross between «Downton Abbey» and «Miss Marple».’ – Katherine (Goodreads)The first book in the new Lady Alkmene Callender Mystery seriesA murderous beginningWith her father away in India, Lady Alkmene Callender finds being left to her own devices in London intolerably dull, until the glamorous Broadway star Evelyn Steinbeck arrives in town! Gossip abounds about the New York socialite, but when Ms Steinbeck’s wealthy uncle, Silas Norwhich, is found dead Lady Alkmene finds her...
| Автор | Vivian Conroy |
Lady Alkmene and Jake Dubois are back in a gripping new adventure facing dangerous opponents at a masked ball in the countryside.Masked danger…Lady Alkmene Callender has always loved grand parties, but when she receives an invitation to a masked ball thrown by Franklin Hargrove – oil magnate, aviation enthusiast and father of her best friend, Denise – she’s never seen such luxury. The estate is lit up with Chinese lanterns in the gardens, boats operated by footmen float across the pond and the...
| Автор | Vivian Conroy |
DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS LIMITED-TIME DISCOUNT ON BOOK ONE OF THE SERIES.The first in the Oathsworn series, charting the adventures of a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun.In time with the magnificent British Museum Viking exhibition, comes the Oathsworn series, called ‘enthralling’ by fiction legend Bernard Cornwell, and known for its blockbuster battles and powerful suspense.Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. Young Orm Rurikson is plucked from the...
| Автор | Robert Low |
Rebellious, Scandalous and IrredeemableSarah, Lady Strathford, is ready for a little harmless frivolity with a man of her own age and her own appetites…surely that’s not too much to ask! After the death of her beloved husband years before Sarah is ready for an adventure… Enter the dashing, roguish – and baffling – Mr Cornelius Ravenhill.Ravenhill, however, is not the gentleman he seems, and soon Sarah finds herself battling against the corrupt and harsh world around her as it threatens to...
| Автор | Victoria Hanlen |
‘a hell of a lot of fun and exactly the sort of comfort read you need on a rainy Sunday afternoon.’ – Perks of Being a BookwormA woman is revealed…By day Miss Harriet Groves is a highly respectable lady, and a darling of society with her quick wit and blonde beauty. But by night Harriet dons a disguise, riding out into the countryside as the feared – and often revered! – Green Highwayman.A life of crime was never the plan, but saving her family from ruin keeps Harriet riding into danger under...
| Автор | Sophie Dash |
Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale.When there is nowhere else to turn, St Saviour’s will give them hope…It’s 1947 and London’s East End is still a bombed-out landscape. Sister Beatrice, who runs the St Saviour’s Children’s Home, knows that life is still a precarious existence for many children and it seems that there is no end to the constant stream of waifs and strays who appear at their door looking for a safe...
| Автор | Cathy Sharp |
From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged – in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.The nineteenth century saw the creation of some of the world's most incredible feats of engineering. Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of...
| Автор | Deborah Cadbury |
In this fascinating look at the unique conjuncture of factors surrounding Il Duce’s seizure of power, eminent historian Donald Sassoon traces the political circumstances that sent Italy on a collision course with the most destructive war of the century.On the morning of 30 October 1922, Mussolini arrived in Rome to accept the premiership of a constitutional, conservative government. Within five years, however, his regime would morph into a dictatorship that neither his fascist supporters nor the...
| Автор | Donald Sassoon |
This ebook edition does not include illustrations.As he did in ‘Britain B.C.’ and ‘Britain A.D.’, eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground.The term 'Middle Ages' suggests a time between two other ages: a period when nothing much happened. In his radical reassessment, Francis Pryor shows that this is incorrect and that the Middle Ages were actually the time when the modern world was born. This was when...
| Автор | Francis Pryor |
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights – especially fish – fine wine and pleasures of the flesh. Indeed, great fortunes were squandered and politicians’ careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing...
| Автор | James Davidson |
A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.This compelling history, culminating in the execution of Charles I, brings to life the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. In an excitingly fresh approach to the period Diane Purkiss tells the story of this critical era not just in terms of the battle of ideas, but as the histories of...
| Автор | Diane Purkiss |
Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy-left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1607, and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James...
| Автор | Benjamin Woolley |
A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a century, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the organizational drive he brought to the task of putting its administration and defences on a newly secure footing. His successor, Constantine, sustained this consolidation of imperial strength by...
| Автор | Averil Cameron |
Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetIt’s the 1950’s and the orphans of Halfpenny Street have found a new home in the Essex countryside at Halfpenny House. Meanwhile, back among the slum clearances of Bethnal Green, St Saviour’s has now been partially given over to a home for disturbed girls though it still serves as a reception centre for local children who are in desperate need.Amongst these are Archie and his sister June....
| Автор | Cathy Sharp |
This edition does not include illustrations.An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.‘English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers’ – Nancy MitfordFrom the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign...
| Автор | Katie Hickman |
No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did.The Spanish Civil War is burned into European consciousness, not simply because it prefigured the much larger world war that followed it, but because the intense manner of its prosecution was a harbinger of a new and horrific form of warfare that was universally dreaded. At the same time, the hopes awakened by the attempted social revolution in republican...
| Автор | Paul Preston |
The next book from the author of If They Knew, coming January 2019.Cambridge, 1986. Alex, Karen and Misty are an inseparable trio at Cambridge University – one can never be found far from the others. But when Alex dies suddenly, the remaining two friends can’t look one another in the eye – knowing they both had a part to play in her death.Present day. Misty and Karen haven’t spoken in years, but, convinced she has seen a picture of Alex alive, Karen doesn’t know who else to turn to. She soon...
| Автор | Joanne Sefton |
TO RESTORE HER REPUTATION, SHE MUST FIRST DESTROY IT…When Dianthe Lovejoy is accused of murdering a courtesan who bears an uncanny resemblance to her, she must go into hiding. And the only man who can protect her is her enemy–notorious rake and gambler Lord Geoffrey Morgan.Owing a debt of honor to her relative, Lord Geoffrey reluctantly takes in the meddlesome miss. But when he learns of her plan to masquerade as a courtesan to unmask the villain, he vows to put a stop to the ridiculous scheme....
| Автор | Gail Ranstrom |
Wikingowie znowu ruszają do walki! Dokonują zemsty na Karolu Wielkim za atak na ziemie duńskie i oblegają Paryż – miasto, którego ponoć nie sposób zdobyć. Wielkie zdrady tych, którzy nie powinni byli zdradzić towarzyszą równie wielkim zmianom sojuszy. Synowie Ragnara zdobywają sławę. Każdy na inny, własny sposób. Jednak to śmierć jednej z kluczowych postaci świata wikingów zmieni wszystko. Wróg stanie się przyjacielem, a przyjaciel wrogiem… W wielu miejscach rozgorzeje walka o władzę, a w...
| Автор | Daniel Komorowski |
Dalsze losy wielopokoleniowej rodziny Neubinerów. Michael opuszcza dom w Łanach, chcąc znaleźć szczęście w mieście. Zdobywa tytuł mistrza cechu piekarzy, bierze za żonę córkę znanego potentata, wiedzie na pozór szczęśliwe życie w Kołomyi. Jednak w sercu wciąż czuje niepokój. Czy tajemnice, które skrywa wyjdą kiedyś na jaw? Dlaczego przez lata nie ma kontaktu z rodziną i nie potrafi spojrzeć w oczy najlepszego przyjacielowi? Bohaterowie próbują odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości i znaleźć...
| Автор | Ewa Bauer |
Chciałeś się tułać po świecie, będziesz się tułał, ocierając o śmierć bliskich, aż czwarte pokolenie zmaże twoje winy. Jest druga polowa XVIII wieku. Joseph Neubiner nie chce być kolejnym pokoleniem Neubinerów, którym przeznaczone jest tułacze życie. Zabiera zonę oraz trzech synów i razem decydują się szukać szczęścia na terenach Królestwa Galicji i Lodomerii. Zamierza znaleźć miejsce, gdzie zapuszczą korzenie. Długa podróż z Sudetów na wschód, a potem trudne początki sprawiają, że nieraz żałuje...
| Автор | Ewa Bauer |
Cudownie subtelna, przywołująca bezpowrotnie minioną epokę powieść o miłości, tęsknocie i bezlitosnym upływie czasu. W długie, upalne lato roku 1939 Wielka Brytania szykuje się do wojny, ale na położonej w hrabstwie Suffolk nadrzecznej farmie górę biorą zupełnie innego rodzaju emocje. Pani Pretty, owdowiała właścicielka majątku, znajduje wreszcie potwierdzenia własnego przeczucia, że posiadana przez nią ziemia skrywa najprawdziwszy skarb. W miarę postępów prac archeologicznych staje się jasne,...
| Автор | John Preston |
Originally published in 1918, this work describes the life of the French pilot and fighter ace George Guynemer. ""The biography which I have attempted to write seeks the soul for its object rather than the motor: and the soul, too, has its wings."" This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the...
| Автор | Henry Bordeaux |
The philosophy of Rumplestiltskin was delivered as a lecture to the esteemed members of the Folklore Society. An engaging look at how the science of folklore was treated at the time while giving a very fresh look upon the classic fairytale Rumplestiltskin. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
| Автор | Edward Clodd |