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Novo romance do vencedor do prêmio Camões de 2013, A cegueira do rio nos leva ao norte de Moçambique nos dias que antecedem a guerra para contar uma história extraordinária de subversão do domínio colonial, em que a palavra escrita e a leitura são os únicos meios de fuga e salvação...

Award-winning Russian historian Catherine Merridale turns her adept hand to fiction in this gripping and poignant thriller set on the eve of Stalin's Great Purge, for readers of Robert Harris and David McCkloskey. December 1934. Moscow is in ferment after the assassination of one of Stalin's...

Paris, 1942. Two years into the Nazi occupation of their city, the citizens are bone-tired and starving. Every day is dominated by curfews and barricades. In such desperate times every secret can be used as currency. When twins Camille and Marie Bardet are recruited to join the resistance by a...

A story inspired by real events. It is France 1939, and the world is on the edge of war. Two young adults from vastly different backgrounds find themselves drawn together at a vibrant summer fayre. The meeting feels inexplicably destined, and their passion explodes, even as the ominous clouds of World War II begin to gather overhead. As the Nazi occupation tightens its grip on France, the lovers and those around them are forced to endure unimaginable hardship.

An uplifting tale of resilience and friendship, perfect for fans of Fiona Valpy and Rachel Hore’s The French Spymistress. 1939: when war breaks out, Sylvia, Frida and Jeanne choose to stay in Port-Saint-Martin, the French town they call home. But when France is occupied, the British women are...

Before Stonewall, there was Sam: a revealing, unapologetic glimpse into the lives, loves, and ambitions of gay men in 1950s New York Lonnie Coleman broke numerous taboos by exploring queer life in his novel Sam, originally published in 1959. Defying the era's typical tragic tropes, Coleman...

1942, Somerset: the war rages on, but the Cider Girls are ready for the fight of their lives. With the threat of a German invasion hanging heavy over Somerset, friends Rose, Daisy and Elsie, known as the Cider Girls, are doing everything they can to prepare. For newly-wed Land Girl Rose...

A BRAND NEW, captivating WW2 timeslip novel of hidden family secrets, love and resilience. Perfect for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Fiona Valpy. A forgotten puppet. A long-buried secret. A story waiting to be told. London, 2016. When Christa discovers an exquisitely carved puppet hidden in...

Discover a BRAND NEW emotional saga from bestselling author Elaine Johns! Perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Fenella J Miller Two strangers. One unforgettable night. A lifetime promise to find each other... Proud Leading Wren Sally Gordon is travelling to a new posting in Cornwall when an air...

Na ziemi białskiej trwa rewolucyjna burza. Ścierają się poglądy i ludzie. Dochodzi do brutalnych aresztowań i carskich represji, w wyniku których Anastazja musi uciekać. Poznaje tam Eugenię, która odsłania przed nią rodzinne sekrety, i Ignacego, który ofiaruje jej ciepło i czułość. W drugim tomie dylogii „Burza na Podlasiu. Krzysztof" poznajemy dalsze losy Anastazji i Krzysztofa.

She checks the ties on her dancing shoes under the spotlight at the Germans’ favorite hotel. She moves automatically, her body remembering the steps, even though her mind is screaming at the danger she is in. The soldiers must never know she is Jewish. And that she is helping her fellow Jews escape… Warsaw, 1943: Every night, Franceska dances at the most dangerous hotel in Poland. She knows which floorboards creak on the stage, which waiters are clumsy, and which officers like to be smiled at.

The Battle of Arras is about to begin and the new German fighters will rule the skies in what will become Bloody April when the Royal Flying Corps begin to lose pilots and crews in huge numbers. 41 Squadron become the one hope on the Arras front and Bill, Gordy and Ted have to fight for their lives against the new Albatros and Baron Manfred Von Richthofen. The novel moves between the war in France and the home front to give a graphic snapshot of the war in the Spring of 1917.

When Sally meets historian Tom in a cemetery on Tamborine Mountain, it's an absurd beginning to a friendship that will change everything. She's there with her elderly grandmother Iris, while Tom is researching a family secret that's haunted three generations. As Tom's research deepens, Sally becomes increasingly involved. As a writer with a love of history, she understands the pull of unfinished lives and unanswered questions.

Ein fesselndes Hörbuch über die Fundamente unserer Heimat. Heimesbach im Hunsrück ist ein fiktiver Ort, an dem sich neunzig Jahre deutscher Geschichte in die Mauern und Biografien eingenistet haben. Es ist eine Gemeinde, die ihre Vergangenheit aktiv verschweigt und zugleich zum Zufluchtsort für diejenigen wird, die hier Geborgenheit suchen.

The performance of a lifetime… by the wrong woman. June 1956. The world is overjoyed when reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film—a movie she wrote and starred in—after nearly a decade out of the public eye following a broken engagement...

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...

Discover the next BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping wartime Harbour House series from BESTSELLER Fenella J Miller 1942: Chance has brought them together, will war keep them apart? Widowed Eloise Roby is surrounded by family at Harbour House, yet she can’t shake the feeling that something is...

The World War II thriller from number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden. Two brothers are brought down over the Netherlands in 1944. When they drop from the sky, they enter hell on earth. With a ragged crew of misfits, they just have to survive long enough for reinforcements to punch through...

Manchester, 1920. As a mannequin in an exclusive fashion salon, Kate Hunter lives for the moments she can step into a beautiful gown and leave her worries behind. But when Kate is cheated out of her home and then suffers a terrible accident, she suddenly loses everything: her job, her...

Discover a BRAND NEW wartime saga series from the BESTSELLING author of The Home Front Nurses, Rachel Brimble September 1940, Bristol – When Hitler’s bombs started raining down on her city, Susan Beckett’s first thought was for her own survival. But hearing the sound of a small child...