Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems...
Historical Fiction
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary: - Author:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
La taille d’Édouard Beaupré impressionne. Un véritable géant! Conscient de l’extraordinaire de sa condition, Édouard s’engage dans différents cirques. Une histoire aussi géante que son héros, qui retrace la vie et la carrière du célèbre...
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La naissance et l'évolution d'un genre littéraire : le roman historique, en Europe et ailleurs. Cet essai dégage les formes premières des romans historiques, autour des nouvelles et des romans mémoires de l'âge classique, montre comment...
- Author:Benlabed, SalahSummary:
Dans ce roman, Salah Benlabed visite à sa façon une page méconnue de l’histoire en faisant se côtoyer des personnages aussi bien fictifs que réels. Nous sommes au milieu du XIXe siècle, les armées françaises envahissent l’Algérie et se...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
At eighteen Cathie longs for more than a life as a settler in the Australian bush. She accepts her uncle's offer to send her to England, not realising he is using her to wreak revenge on his sister Liza.
- Author:CARR, PhilippaSummary:
This is the fifth novel in the "Daughters of England" series. It tells of Arabella, a royalist in exile who returns to her husband's English home as a widow.
- Author:Hamilton, PamelaSummary:
Lady Be Good transports us to the glittering, sumptuous era of 1920s New York to follow the life of aspiring actress Dorothy Hale as she comes of age. Breaking societal rules imposed on women, "Peck's Bad Girl of Pittsburgh...
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Author:Ford, CattSummary:Cuando su hermano la entrega sin su consentimiento para que forme parte del harén del general Hüi Wei a modo de tributo, la única duda de la princesa Lan’xiu es cuánto tardarán en descubrir su secreto. No se hace ilusiones. Cuando el...
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Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:Demon Cynster a juré de ne jamais laisser l’amour le mettre à genoux. Mais à présent, Felicity Parteger se tient devant lui en le suppliant de lui apporter son assistance. Le petit bout de fille dont se souvient Demon n’est à présent...
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Author:Sontag, SusanSummary:Romanzo storico lucido e intelligente, e ispirato a quel triagolo amoroso che fece chiacchierare tutta l'Europe di fine '700. Le vite di Sir William Hamilton, ambasciatore inglese a Napoli; di sua moglie l'affascinante...
- Author:CARR, PhilippaSummary:
Lottie has loved her cousin Dickon since childhood. When he marries a rich heiress she is forced to begin a new life in France with her father's family. Tragedy strikes and Lottie is cast adrift in Paris as the stormclouds of the...
- Author:NUNN, JudySummary:
In this novel, Kalgoorlie is brought to life through the lives and times of two families, one Australian and one Italian. From the heady early days to the gold rush, to the horrors of the First World War, to the shame and confrontation...
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Author:DU MAURIER, DaphneSummary:Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria.
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Author:Tripp, ValerieSummary:Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are...
- Author:Clarke, SusannaSummary:
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England until the...
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Author:COX, JosephineSummary:Jinnie is the child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise adopts little Jinnie.
- Author:GRAHAM, WinstonSummary:
In the September of 1790, Ross Poldark was charged with having plundered two ships. If proven, the sentence would be death. Other things also had not gone well but there was hope of a new beginning.
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:When a new feature on Pete Newbury's popular TV programme shows his adult image digitally transformed to that of a young child, Beth is shocked to realise he's her 'baby' brother, who vanished without trace. Her...
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Author:CHIDGEY, CatherineSummary:Clifford Stilton taught his son Gene about fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities. After Clifford's death the family packs away his meticulous diaries but their contents still affect the lives of Gene and Gene's...
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea. On the threshold of securing his first post as Captain, Hornblower finds himself forced to fight alongside a man...
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