Simon Forman rose to wealth and fame in Elizabethan London as doctor to the giants of the Elizabethan theatre. He was also an astrologer and schemer - and perhaps a spy. His "playbook"...
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Auteur: Cook, JudithSommaire: -
Auteur: Ramaya, ShonaSommaire:
A novel of an English family who arrive in India in 1905. When the two sons of the family become captivated by an Indian dancer, sinister overtones colour the family's life.
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Auteur: Wilson, RaymondSommaire:
Eleven short stories packed with suspense.
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Templeton, AlineSommaire:The community of Drumbreck - a tranquil weekend playground for rich Glaswegians - is small and close-knit. But the veneer of contented prosperity conceals nasty secrets and daily betrayals. In...
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Auteur: McCullough, ColleenSommaire:
Continues the saga of the ancient Roman Republic begun in "The first man in Rome" and following the brilliant but corrupt General Sulla as he attempts to gain the Consulate of Rome.
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Auteur: Drabble, MargaretSommaire:
Sequel to "The radiant way", this novel continues the story of Alix, Liz and Esther and focuses on the industrial city of Northam in Yorkshire, where the problems and opportunities of eighties...
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Auteur: Andrews, VirginiaSommaire:
An incredible story, based on fact, about four children hidden in an attic so that their mother - apparently childless - may inherit a fortune.
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Auteur: Tracy, P. J.Sommaire:
An old couple knelt side by side in an otherwise empty small -...
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Auteur: Harrod-eagles, CynthiaSommaire:With a brilliant, handsome husband, a fabulous home and an exciting job in a Bond Street art gallery, Polly has everything she could possibly want - except a baby. Her neighbour Ginnie has three...
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Auteur: Gregson, J. M.Sommaire:As the Masonic Lodge Ladies' Night comes to a close and the guests drift away, a man is found in the car park, garotted at his steering wheel. Murder is no laughing matter, but DI Percy Peach...
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Auteur: Crowley, F. K. (Francis Keble)Sommaire:
A history of Western Australia from the first settlements to modern times.
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Auteur: Vine, BarbaraSommaire:Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand, house, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. All that mattered...
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Auteur: Warner, MarinaSommaire:Short stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.
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Auteur: Whitnell, BarbaraSommaire:Clare Ashland is a woman with the world at her feet - she's beautiful, at the top of her career ladder, with an enviable London lifestyle and plenty of admirers. But something is missing in...
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Auteur: Rhodes, ElviSommaire:
From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted. So she moved south to Brighton where life was...
Genre: Historical fiction