November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable...
Great Britain
- Author:Spufford, FrancisSummary:
- Author:Blackwood, JessieSummary:
Sequel to Per Ardua After months of physiotherapy, Group Captain Jack Ratigan has regained some of the mobility lost in a plane crash at the end of World War II. But six years later, he still requires the care of his cousin’s butler,...
- Author:Richards, Keith, Fox, James, Hurley, JoeSummary:
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire...
- Author:Cooper, IsabelSummary:
In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called...
- Author:Willig, LaurenSummary:
L’OEillet rose est «une comédie vraiment exquise». En voici maintenant la suite «terriblement brillante et amusante» mettant en vedette Éloïse Kelly, étudiante au doctorat à Harvard, qui est sur le point de démasquer l’espion le plus...
- Author:Hutton, CallieSummary:
Drake, duc de Manchester, a recours à l’agence matrimoniale pour dénicher l’épouse parfaite. Il désire une femme posée, sophistiquée, digne du titre de duchesse. Mais plus que tout, il désire une femme qui ne recherche pas l’inutile...
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
A royal birth, a nobleman's death, and a scarlet woman's murder In March 1279 Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the...
- Author:Saunders, KateSummary:
In 1851, private-detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs....
- Author:Byrd, SandraSummary:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is...
- Author:Orczy, Emmuska OrczySummary:
This is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. Lady Molly, like her fictional contemporaries, most often succeeded because she recognized domestic clues foreign to male experience...
- Author:Glenconner, AnneSummary:
Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, as...
- Author:Lawrence, D. H.Summary:
- Author:Lawrence, D. H.Summary:
An account of Constance Chatterley's love for Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, and the sense of completeness that they find in each other.
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Angleterre, 1485. Henri Tudor fait tomber Richard III au combat et s’empare du trône après la bataille de Bosworth. Mais c’est un pays morcelé par la guerre des Deux-Roses qui attend le nouveau souverain. Un défi de taille lui incombera...
- Author:Mackenzie, Nadine, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
L’histoire nous montre que les guerres ont des origines les plus diverses. Et l’assassinat en 1859, par un colon américain, d’un cochon britannique un peu trop gourmand, suffit à déclencher un conflit entre les deux pays. Il devint...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Best-seller du New York Times qui a inspiré La princesse blanche, la minisérie télévisée de Starz encensée par la critique, La fille du faiseur de rois nous raconte l’histoire d’Anne Neville, une jolie jeune femme qui doit se frayer un...
- Author:MARLOW, JoyceSummary:
An absorbing study of the Kings and Queens of Britain and Scotland: from William I to Elizabeth II.
- Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:
In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Kidnapping ... Murder ... Revenge. If Only the Fortress Walls Could Talk! From bestselling author Tracie Peterson come three unique historical novels, rereleased for longtime and new fans alike. Liberty and love—even life itself—are...
- Author:Speedwell, RowanSummary:
Charming rascal Tristan Northwood seems to have it all: an ancient name, a noble inheritance, a lovely wife and a son he adores. Women love him, men admire him and it seems there is nothing he can’t do, whether it’s seducing a society...