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Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Can they also help Miss Olivia Gray solve a murder? London, 1920: Heiress Olivia Gray is bored out of her mind. After saving lives as an ambulance driver in the war, being trapped in her mother's palatial drawing room feels like a prison sentence she will never...

'GRIPPING...I LOVED IT' Lisa Jewell 'A DELICIOUS TALE OF RIVALRY AND SISTERHOOD' Laura Shepherd-Robinson 'SEAMLESSLY TAUT AND TENSE' Emma Flint 'A VIVID AND RIVETING MYSTERY' Anna Mazzola IN A WORLD THAT WANTED WOMEN GROUNDED, THEY TOOK TO THE SKIES. It's the turn of the 20th Century, and the...

May 1940. Nazi Party propaganda indicates that the war is nearly won, but disturbing news of casualties makes for a tense atmosphere in Berlin. Violent crime is growing, with arrogant members of the Hitler Youth amongst the worst culprits. When a young man of the group is found brutally murdered...

England, 1905 At Ashmore Castle, scandal is never far away... When a train crash rocks Ashmore, unlikely heroes emerge - and old secrets begin to stir. Kitty is still finding her feet at the castle, though her sharp-tongued mother-in-law and the old earl's dark secret threaten her newfound...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The first time she hid a map, her hands trembled so badly she nearly pricked her finger through the silk. It was 1942 in occupied Paris, and every stitch she made could either save a life or send her to the firing squad. The protagonist is a quiet...

A lyrical multigenerational novel about two families—one Israeli and one Palestinian—and the house that connects them, by the award-winning author of The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land Jerusalem, 1939: An eccentric Jewish bookbinder and his young niece, Agata, are hired to repair books at...

When Victoria and her husband win a lottery for a house in Greece, they jump at the opportunity to start over, and find themselves drawn into a village of secrets and discover a whole new meaning to family. Victoria and Adam moved to Folegandros as an experiment. Two years on this quiet island...

A sweeping debut novel following a glamorous and entrancing Hollywood starlet who makes history while carrying a secret that, if exposed, could cost her everything. Slim, dark-haired, nineteen. The year is 1929 and Estelle Thompson’s pours over magazines inspecting the local beauties of Bombay...

The author of West Heart Kill returns with an original, gripping, and atmospheric novel of moral complexity set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris in World War II “McDorman’s knowledge is abundant, as is his cleverness.” —The New York Times Book Review Paris, 1942. The German...

تدور أحداث الرواية حول جون، جندي بريطاني في الحرب العالمية الثانية، الذي يجد نفسه مضطراً لقتل أحد الجنود الألمان بناءً على أمر من قائده. تبدأ الرواية بتساؤل جون عن مبادئه الإنسانية بعد أن أزهق روحاً بريئة دون وجه حق، ويستعرض الكاتب صراعه الداخلي وتأثير هذا الفعل على حياته. تتوالى الأحداث لتكشف عن عواقب هذا الفعل على جون وعلاقاته الشخصية.

Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward. The family’s remarkable matriarch Lucilla is still with them, though she’s facing the dark night of the soul. All is turned on its head with the arrival of Sebastian, another survivor of WWII. He has a story far more painful than any of the Eliots. While with them, he wrestles with questions about his own disconnected existence.

The War had left him a shattered man, but its toll was not nearly so great as losing the love of his life. Few understand Elliot’s anguish at losing Nadine. He came back from the War a shattered and lonely man. But his return to the Eliot family refuge on England’s Hampshire coast is gradually pushing back the dark waters of soul and spirit.

A gripping historical novel of love, divided loyalties, and the price of silence. War’s Labyrinth follows two American sisters and one British agent through the moral fog of World War II and the Cold War, when secrets dramatically changed lives. In 1940s Washington, D. C., Vera Taskinen works inside the Roosevelt White House, navigating wartime politics and a romance with a British agent named David.

The war in the water is intensifying… Europe, 1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson are serving their country at sea: Rom as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and Remmie in the Merchant Navy.

Zerrissene Familienbande: drei Geschwister zwischen Verantwortung, Kollaboration und Flucht 1933: Die drei Manthey-Erben finden sich in einer Welt im Umbruch wieder. Während Vicki als Reporterin im Prager Exil gegen die neuen Machthaber in Deutschland anschreibt, sucht Fritjof in New York nach Möglichkeiten, aus der Ferne gegen das Nazi-Regime zu wirken. Währenddessen steuert Alexander in Berlin das Zeitungsimperium geschickt durch die neuen Machtstrukturen.

Berlin, 1945: Nach zehn Jahren kommen die Geschwister wieder in Berlin zusammen. In den Trümmern der Stadt wollen sie eine neue Zeitung gründen. Während Fritjof nach unbelasteten Journalisten sucht, erkennt Vicki, dass es in ihrer Hand liegt, wie sich die neu gegründete Republik entwickelt – und dass ihr Bruder Alexander sein skrupelloses Streben nach Macht nicht verloren hat. In einer Zeit, die von Neuanfängen und alten Lasten geprägt ist, müssen die Geschwister entscheiden, was Vergebung bedeutet und wie sie die Zukunft ihres Landes mitgestalten wollen.

Poland, 1944. Devastated by the loss of her beloved father, twenty-three-year-old Wanda vows to follow in his footsteps and join the resistance against the German occupiers. Her father lost his life protecting innocent people from Nazi cruelty—she will risk her life too. Under the cover of shadows, Wanda slips down cobbled streets and past spired buildings to meet an informant who could provide crucial supplies for their fight. But the sight of the man waiting turns Wanda's blood to ice. She instantly recognizes him as the soldier who killed her father.

Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice’s dream of an escapist year teaching English is shattered. Granted shelter at the Villa delle Colombe, she seeks refuge in Francesca and Edoardo’s beautiful walled garden, hidden from the outside world, with an elaborate cypress maze at its heart. But Beatrice is not the only one seeking an escape here. Francesca has brought children to the safety of the house, as well as other adults, all of them seeking sanctuary on the estate with its mysterious maze.

London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London.

England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.