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A collection of some of William Trevor’s most acclaimed works, as heard on BBC Radio William Trevor was an Irish literary legend. In a 40-year career, he published a multiplicity of novels, plays, and short stories, and received numerous awards and honours. He was often compared to Chekhov for...

This audiobook is a sweeping, time spanning journey through the hidden emotional terrain of American service — from the quiet rituals of modern deployments to the mud choked battlefields of the Civil War and the dust heavy compounds of Afghanistan. Across eras, landscapes, and uniforms, these stories reveal the private moments of courage, fear, and connection that never make it into history books.

Ne vous méprenez pas ! Passés composés n’est pas le titre d’une grammaire ni d’un outil de conjugaison, mais celui d’un recueil de nouvelles. Treize personnages ayant marqué, chacun à sa manière, la grande ou la petite histoire du Québec y sont présentés, à la fois par l’entremise de la fiction, puis dans de courtes biographies.

Here is a collection of joined-up stories for these disjointed times, for the exiled and the out-of-place. Letters from love poets and blood-stained dictators, memos from corrupt businessmen and out-of-touch courtiers. The action stretches from Chislehurst to the Chagos Islands, from bathos to Billericay.

Été 1919. Deux jeunes hommes, liés par un amour placé sous le signe de la musique, partent recueillir des chansons traditionnelles dans les campagnes du Maine, avant que l'un d'eux ne disparaisse brusquement. Des années plus tard, dans la maison où elle vient d'emménager, une femme retrouve les cylindres de cire enregistrés lors de ce fameux été… La première nouvelle de Ben Shattuck donne le ton de ce magnifique recueil qui explore le lien entre l'amour et la perte, et la manière dont celui-ci se métamorphose au gré du temps.

Rider without walls and bound by the trail inspired by the rich legacy of the black cowboy historical contribution.

Dans la splendeur enneigée de l’Angleterre de la Régence, un lord désabusé au passé scandaleux et une lady au cœur brisé, bien décidée à fuir l’amour, se retrouvent irrésistiblement attirés l’un par l’autre lors d’une rencontre fortuite. Lady Eleanor Winthrop a juré de ne jamais se marier après une rupture humiliante. Son indépendance farouche et son esprit acéré sont les boucliers qu’elle oppose à un monde qui l’a trahie. Lord Alexander Harrington, marquis de Rockingham, est un séducteur notoire, au charme aussi ravageur que sa réputation.

Heartbroken and alone, Lucy Patterson retreats to a crumbling Victorian house in Otley for Christmas. Behind the dusty shelves of its library she finds the impossible, a hidden passage that leads not to another room, but to December 1885.

Miss Kitty Bennet has a terrible, embarrassing secret...she is afraid of the dark. When the sister she shares a room with marries, Kitty must finally confront her fear, a confrontation she's losing. At least, until she gets a little help from some unlikely sources: her older sister Mary and the Christmas Unicorn.

Sins, Tragedies, and Other Things That Make Us Human is a collection of five thought-provoking short stories that blend historical fiction, dark humor, and contemporary drama.

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

The first and ultimate Steampulp novel, Khan Dynasty features an epic adventure spanning two centuries in time and linking the incredible lives of history's most popular Victorian Age adventurers of the 1800s with the greatest action heroes of the Pulp Era and an assortment of well-known, real-life figures.

When Unity returns to port early with a bountiful harvest of whale oil, Captain Septimus Brooks and his men think they’ve earned an extended time off of the raging waves. But Pittman Whaling and Shipping sees an opportunity for a double harvest. Before the men can even take to the sea again, though, Brooks becomes injured and is forced to put his son, Seth Brooks, in charge of the ship. He imparts the wisdom earned from decades on the water, then waves his son and crew off from shore. All seems well until Unity is hailed by the Rachel, its captain calling for help.

In the opulent ballrooms of Regency-era London, Mercy Ainsworth plays her part flawlessly. By day, she's the poised daughter of an esteemed earl, an embodiment of grace and decorum. But when the moon ascends and the city's shadows lengthen, she transforms into a clandestine artist of Drury Lane, her paintings ablaze with untamed passion.

Vor tausend Jahren flüchtet eine Frau durch eine urzeitliche schottische Landschaft. Die Männer, die sie jagen, wollen sie töten – denn sie ist die Einzige, die zwischen ihnen und ihren blutigen Zielen steht. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine starke, charismatische Frau, die alles gibt, um das Richtige zu tun. Die Verluste erträgt und sich jeder Gefahr stellt, um die Intrigen rücksichtsloser und machthungriger Männer zu überstehen.

Published in 1937 to commercial success, The Years is a powerful narrative that traces the fortunes of the Pargiter family from the 1880s through to the 1930s, capturing the shifting tides of English society as old traditions give way to modernity. Through Woolf's characteristically lyrical prose and sharp psychological insight, the ordinary rhythms of domestic life – births, deaths, reunions, quiet moments of longing – become heavy with meaning.

My conversations with a cactus, a good old fashioned American West tale told through a first-person POV. It deals with the grim subjects of death, pain, and betrayal with a generous amount of humor.

This epic historical adventure, rich with Norse mythology and vivid seafaring detail, captures the unyielding spirit of exploration in a time when the world’s edge was just a sail away. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Vikings, The Viking Voyage is a saga of blood, bonds, and the birth of a legend.

In the blood-soaked chaos of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), Klaus Vogel, a Franconian pikeman, fights not for glory or faith, but for the survival of his wife, Anna, and son, Lukas. Thrust into the brutal world of mercenary life, Klaus wields his pike through ravaged villages, musket volleys, and the horrors of sieges like Magdeburg’s infamous sack. Each battle scars his body and soul, from the fog-shrouded fields of Lützen to the desperate defense of a refugee camp, as he grapples with the cost of survival and the vow to protect his family.

Mosaico di episodi curiosi di un'infanzia nell'Italia fascista, di piccole epopee autobiografiche, di digressioni filologiche e di considerazioni ironiche sui precetti religiosi. Coniugando partecipazione affettuosa, distacco ironico e rigorosa intelligenza, Meneghello ricrea la commedia umana della provincia veneta tra gli anni Venti del Novecento e il Dopoguerra, offrendo al lettore un mondo magico la cui protagonista assoluta è la lingua.