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Lady Madeline Sheldon has no intention of making a precipitous marriage. However, she has no objection to visiting Lord Grey Carshalton and his grandmother when the opportunity arises. His lordship is only recently returned from the Peninsular where he was serving as an intelligence officer. Grey isn't looking to set up his nursery – he’s more concerned with discovering the identity of the person dogging his every move. Because Grey is certain that someone is trying to kill him and he believes it to be associated with his time in the military.

Belle is an American descendant of the world famous Müritz family. Just as she is about to go on her gap year, Belle receives a locket and a photo album, both of which once belonged to her late grandmother; both items hold a clue to a hidden family history. Inspired by the secrets they hold, Belle decides to follow in the footsteps of both her grandmother Elizabeth and her great-great-grandmother Johanna. Belle's historical and physical journey of discovery takes her from nineteenth century Vienna to the hippy trail in the 1960s as she tries to unravel the secrets of the Müritz women.

In her first few months on the Lorynthian throne, Tamyr Thimpor survived internal assaults to her reign, including two assassination attempts. Just when the internal difficulties have been brought under control, an external threat manifests. Tamyr is kidnapped and transported to the Badlands where she is held captive by a witch and seven demons who intend to take her to Nyv'ral, the mountain city, where she is to be executed.

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in a shabby apartment except when she is visited by Niaz, her young, Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose, and somehow manages to survive. Across the ocean in America, Elizabeth’s daughters have built new lives for themselves.

Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with freedom fighter Rabie. He was her first and only real love—him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth, the resistance fighters in the hills, the nation as embodied in her family home and in the land.

Ever since Jimmy was a boy, he’s known two things: the rough streets of Merthyr Tydfil and that one day he would marry Enid Hardcastle. But when Enid disappears without a word, his life takes a different turn. Determined to make something of himself, Jimmy pours his heart into his job at Mr Baxter's workshop, dreaming of the future he and Enid might one day share. Yet, just as his hard work begins to pay off, a man arrives claiming to be Mr Baxter’s illegitimate son, threatening Jimmy’s chance of inheriting the business he was promised.

Anne lebt mittlerweile drei Monaten auf der kleinen nordfriesischen Insel Amrum. Sie plant mit Ben ihre Zukunft und überlegt, einen eigenen Pflegedienst aufzumachen. Emma, mit der sie noch lange nicht im Reinen ist, soll Anne dabei unterstützen. In dieser Situation taucht Bens Exfreundin Nadja auf und hat ein fünfjähriges Mädchen im Schlepptau: Marie, Bens angebliche Tochter. Nadja braucht für einige Wochen eine Betreuung für die Kleine und erwartet, dass Ben diese Aufgabe übernimmt. Auch Ediths Schicksal, das die alte Dame zurück auf die Insel bringt, geht nicht spurlos an Anne vorbei.

Widerstand, Fluchtpläne und gefährliche Geheimnisse. Der fesselnde neue Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta. Bernried am Starnberger See, 1942: Paul-Friedrich von Falkenbach und Wilhelm Lehmann engagieren sich in der Widerstandsgruppe des Kreisauer Kreises. Aber das Risiko ist groß. Was können sie damit wirklich bewirken? Zum ersten Mal kommt ihnen der Gedanke, gemeinsam mit ihren Familien Deutschland zu verlassen. Immerhin haben sie noch immer die Goldbarren in einer geheimen Höhle in der Nähe von Innsbruck versteckt, ein beträchtliches potenzielles Startkapital.

Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling the effects of war like never before. Years of being told to be a ‘good girl’ by her mother, Freda has always done what’s been expected of her. But, even though she’s proud of her work nursing soldiers and victims of war, she can’t help but wonder if there’s more for her in life. And her secret desire to become a journalist feels increasingly like a calling she can’t resist.

Tras descubrir la traición, Lula comienza a soñar su venganza: ahora será ella quien tome las decisiones en Zaraza y su amiga Corina no tendrá más opción que ver cómo su rol de mánager estrella se desvanece. Además, el nuevo noviazgo mediático de Lula se verá amenazado cuando sus sentimientos por Tomás pasen de una simple relación de trabajo a (quizás) algo más. Toto también empezará a tener sentimientos por Lula, pero el fantasma del abandono de su madre ensombrecerá su futuro.

Ireland's neutrality offers little shelter from the war's far-reaching impact, and across the Atlantic, Richard witnesses a nation divided on intervention. Meanwhile, in sleepy Knocknashee, a twelve-year-old mystery surrounding a stolen child resurfaces, shattering long-held beliefs. Fate seems determined to keep Grace and Richard apart, thwarting their plans to meet, and the vast Atlantic is not the only thing separating them.

Da ist der charismatische, von den Ideen des Bauhauses und der Avantgarde durchdrungene Idealist Hermann Henselmann, der nach dem Krieg zum Chefarchitekten ...

England, 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane, watching things happen around her, waiting for something - just something - to once happen to her. When her old best friend, the beautiful and callous Junie, unexpectedly returns to Sixteen Streets, Minnie's not quite sure how to feel. Once inseparable, the two now find themselves at odds. And when Junie strikes up a romance with Minnie's brother Derek, Minnie can't help but feel lonelier than ever.

Australie-Occidentale, 1876. À dix-huit ans, Cathie aspire à une vie plus palpitante que celle qu'elle mène dans le bush. Aussi saisit-elle sa chance quand un de ses oncles lui suggère de partir pour le Lancashire, la terre natale de sa mère Liza. Cathie s'enfuit de chez elle, ignorant que son oncle la manipule pour se venger de Liza... Agressée dès son arrivée sur les quais de Liverpool, Cathie ne doit son salut qu'à l'intervention d'un homme, Magnus, chez qui elle va trouver refuge. Mais elle a perdu la mémoire.

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone.

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep, along with a note begging her to 'take care of little Rose'. Who is the mother? Victoria, Naomi and the Churchwood bookshop organising team set about trying to identify her, concerned for her welfare and hoping to give her a chance to reclaim her baby. As they piece together the heartbreaking story, all sorts of surprises emerge. But they can't keep the baby a secret for long: can they reunite the little family before the authorities take Rose away?

As the Great War rages, Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham, is threatened with closure when sugar rations begin. Anne, who works for the owner Mr Jack, must choose between her heart and her head when Mr Jack declares his love for her. Not only might he have to sell the toffee factory if he breaks off his previous engagement, but he can never know the secret that Anne carries. Elsie is forced to keep a secret when she risks her safety as well as her reputation in order to make ends meet.

1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned, with no means to return home. Afraid and alone, she faces prejudice and rejection… until she finds her way to an Irish-run boarding house on West India Dock Road and meets Jack, Charity and a host of unexpected friends.

When the father she worships disappears, ten-year-old Ada Fletcher and her family, are forced to move to a poor yard in Birmingham. Ada and Elsie, the two eldest children have to go to work in a local pearl button factory to try and make ends meet. The work is hard and relentless and their mother’s death is the final calamity. One day Ada returns home to find her siblings being dragged away to the local workhouse orphanage.

1859. Somerset, England. When widow Hester Hart decides to sign over all her family’s worldly goods – and their freedom – to a secretive religious community, her daughters, headstrong Ruby and fragile Irene, have little say in the matter. Led by the charismatic Reverend Peters, the women enter a world with its own set of rules and where Irene, cursed with seizures and ill health, is believed to have second sight. But as Hester and Irene are drawn into the community’s twisted philosophy, Ruby detects a darker truth stalking its shadowy corners.