Spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this enthralling story follows the fortunes of the Whittaker family. The brilliant Alma, a botanist, falls in love with a man who draws her into...
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Author: Gilbert, ElizabethSummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Fellowes, JulianSummary:Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Ibsen, HenrikSummary:Hedda Gabler, daughter of a deceased general, marries dull George Tesman and looks forward to a life of middle class tedium. Judge Brack, who admires Hedda, wants to establish a ménage à trois....
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Author: Woolf, VirginiaSummary:Just before the First World War, the Ramsay family go to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a...
Genre: Psychological fiction, Classic fiction -
Author: Joyce, RachelSummary:
It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: HARRIS, JoanneSummary:Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Vianne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: O'Brien, EdnaSummary:Fidelma McBride falls under the spell of a strange newcomer, Vlad, who moves into her small Irish village, but her world is shattered when Vlad is arrested for war crimes.
Genre: Political fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Trethewey, RachelSummary:
As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography,...
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Author: Magnusson, MargaretaSummary:
A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostadning...
Genre: Self-help publications, Social science -
Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her...
Genre: Classic fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Strauss, GwenSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author, as well as an archival recording of Martine Podliasky singing the Champs de Marais at her mother, Hélène Podliasky's, funeral....