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She rose as a favourite. Will she fall as a traitor? A thrilling story of ambition, power and the dark side of the Tudor court from the Sunday Times bestselling author In the dazzling, dangerous world of the Tudor Court, nothing is more powerful than a secret - or more deadly. Jane Boleyn has...

Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the French throne alongside her husband, Louis XVI. But behind the extravagance of the young queen's elaborate silk gowns and dizzyingly high coiffures, she harbors deeper fears for her future and that of the Bourbon dynasty. From the early growing pains of marriage to the joy of conceiving a child, from her passion for Swedish military attache Axel von Fersen to the devastating Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Marie Antoinette tries to rise above the gossip and rivalries that encircle her.

June 1940. France is falling. Thirty thousand refugees are trapped in Bordeaux with nowhere to run—and one Portuguese diplomat has been ordered to let them die.

The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ... A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNER Translated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE A genre-defying novel from a rare new international voice for fans of Lucia Berlin, Elena Ferrante and Han Kang...

What happens when a "professional small boy" grows up completely unsupervised in the Colorado wilderness? You get the unforgettable adventure memoir that's part Hatchet, part Stand by Me, and entirely authentic. Days of High Adventure chronicles the semi-fictional true stories of a feral boy's education in 1980s Southern Colorado before cell phones, helicopter parents, and sanitized safety replaced real character-building adventure.

The author wrote his monster. His monster rewrote him. A chilling modern-day reimagining of Jekyll and Hyde set inside the cutthroat world of self-publishing. A struggling author. A mysterious serum. A monster that wears his face. The Darkness Within is a Jekyll-and-Hyde horror story for the self-publishing age, told through deteriorating diary entries that crack and splinter, unraveling in real time as Tanner Barrett loses himself to an inner beast which, to his horror, has awakened - and knows his enemies by name. What would you sacrifice to write the perfect book?

The Modern-Day Jōb: An Amazing Fable of Truth is a gripping tale of faith, heartbreak, and triumph that will leave you reflecting on life’s deepest questions long after the finale.

A stunningly inventive and poignant historical novel that follows Sylvia Plath through the final year of her life, told through the eyes of the people who knew her during her time in the English countryside. In the early 1960s in a small English town, the church bells ring. The people go about...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day. “Electrifying … A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the...

Mollitor Longley was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given 30 days to live. He decides not to chase a miracle cure, but embarks on an illuminating journey to find meaning in the human condition. At first, Mollitor, 39, is devastated and regrets that he never took risks, that his life has been safe and uninspiring. After his prognosis, he relinquishes control and acts on every impulse. He succumbs to his anger and recklessly confronts everyday injustices.

A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Kraków’s grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered...

When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past. Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red...

“Funny, moving. . . I defy anyone to finish this story without tears in their eyes.” —Graeme Simsion, bestselling author of The Rosie Project What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it’s a chance to spend the rest of his life the way he...

The author of this book captures the listener's attention from the start by weaving a tale of a son's grief over the loss of his mother, which is intensified by the coincidental alignment of his mother's burial with his birthday. The man's memories of his mother and the special ritual they shared on his birthday provide a lens through which the listener can explore the anthropological phenomenon of a woman's transition into motherhood.

Una extraordinaria novela basada en la vida de María Casares, la actriz española de teatro que triunfó en el exilio en Francia: su historia familiar, su carrera artística y su relación con Albert Camus, con el que vivió una apasionada historia de amor.

En Un día de cólera, Arturo Pérez-Reverte convierte en historia colectiva las pequeñas y oscuras historias particulares registradas en archivos y libros.Lo imaginado, por tanto, se reduce a la argamasa narrativa que une las piezas. Con las licencias mínimas que la palabra novela justifica, estas páginas pretenden devolver la vida a quienes durante doscientos años solo han sido personajes anónimos en grabados y lienzos contemporáneos, o escueta relación de nombres en los documentos oficiales.

Nieves Herrero desvela por primera vez la verdadera vida de Pilar de Valderrama, la musa de Antonio Machado, una mujer que, en el ocaso de sus días, tuvo la valentía de confesar al mundo que ella fue la Guiomar de la que hablaban algunos de los versos más hermosos del poeta. Miembro de la alta sociedad madrileña, casada y con tres hijos, arriesgó todo por el amor del único hombre que supo comprenderla.

From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco, comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn. Three cities, two sisters, one chance to correct the past . . . New York, 1937: When...