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The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on her face. Living and schooling on Haxby Road alongside the Rowntrees Chocolate Factory, Molly watched the daily trudge of women employed there in their white uniforms as she sat at her school desk. When Molly secures a job on the production line at the factory, she's excited to become one of these women. As she labours hard at the factory, she meets Connie. Quickly the two form a close friendship, and Molly begins to see the world differently.

1966: In London, Jackie Collins’s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann’s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be a bestseller. But neither author is prepared for the price they will pay for begin women who dare to write about sex.

London, October 1940. As German bombers increase their nightly raids on the capital, the Blitz Girls must be braver than ever to protect innocent lives and keep the fight against Hitler alive. As each night becomes more dangerous for the Blitz Girls, will they have the strength to help each other through and keep the light alive in the darkness?

1904 INDIA: beautiful and headstrong Clarissa Belhaven and her delicate sister Olive find their carefree life on their widowed father's tea plantation threatened by his drinking and debts. Wesley Robson, a brash young rival businessman, offers to help save the plantation in exchange for Clarrie's hand in marriage, but her father flatly refuses. When Jock Belhaven dies suddenly, his daughters are forced to return to their father’s cousin in Tyneside and work long hours in his pub.

Theodor Hugo Hasselt hat Haltung, Wutanfälle und fluktuierende Finanzen. Der Fabrikant aus dem Sauerland soll das eingeschlafene deutsch-britische Eisenbahnprojekt "Vom Kap nach Kairo" wiederbeleben. In Südafrika verliebt er sich rettungslos in seine Cousine Alba und führt sie heim auf sein Landgut in Iserlohn. Doch dort angekommen, will Alba plötzlich Theodors besten Freund Albert, der wiederum mit Marthe verlobt ist, Theodors Jugendliebe und Langzeitgeliebter. Ein Hohelied und ein Abgesang auf die unvergleichlichen Zwanzigerjahre.

Die Haute Couture der Liebe. August, 1939: Die Welt steht am Abgrund, doch Manhattan tanzt - in den Kleidern von Valentina Schlee, den exquisitesten Kreationen der Welt. Die Modeschöpferin und ihre junge Assistentin Daisy arbeiten nur für die reichsten, schönsten und glamourösesten Damen der Gesellschaft: Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn und vor allem eine - die große Greta Garbo. Doch während Daisy sich zu einem Mann hingezogen fühlt, den sie nicht lieben darf, merkt sie bald, dass auch Valentina ein Geheimnis mit sich trägt... Ein facettenreicher Roman über eine riskante Liebe inmitten der goldenen Ära Hollywoods.

Eli Abramowitz works in his parents’ deli in Williamsburg. Not a bad job during the Depression. His family is his whole world—almost. He spends every Sunday at the movies and hopes to hit it big as a Hollywood screenwriter. But how can he tell his parents that one day he’ll be leaving? Across town, Evelyn Rosenstein’s father works for the mob—undoubtedly the reason they’re doing so well. Definitely the reason she’s not allowed any farther than their mailbox unescorted.

It is yet another night of air raids, and instead of heading to the basement of her London workplace – risking being in the same vicinity as him, the man who hurt her in the worst way possible – nineteen-year-old Clare runs to the first place she can think of… and makes a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

Munich, 1943. My heart breaks as I watch the smug couple carry the tiny bundle into their sinister black limousine. Carefully I write the baby’s name into my secret notebook. No matter the danger, I will do everything I can to reunite him with his mother… As the darkest shadows of the war spread, nurse Margarete Weiss is sent away to work in a mother and baby home in a beautiful corner of the German countryside.

Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn Britain to Australia and New Zealand. On the voyage, she forms an unexpected bond with nine-year-old Fergus - and with Bobby, a fellow volunteer who initially infuriates Ruth with his laidback air, yet somehow gets under her skin and throws her ordered life into chaos.

Ela und ihre Oma Lisa hatten schon immer eine besondere Verbindung. Als Ela eine Postkarte von ihrem verstorbenen Opa aus einem Gefangenenlager entdeckt, kommen Fragen auf: Weshalb hat Lisa bei all ihren Erzählungen die Kriegsjahre eigentlich immer ausgelassen?

Hedoné House, a luxurious sanatorium for the creative elite dedicated to the groundbreaking treatment of tuberculosis. As the doctor’s new wife, Agnes Templeton has pledged her life to a house of fever. Her husband’s methods are unusual. There are whisperings about past patients and even a cure. Hedoné’s secrets draw Agnes in, revealing truths she could never anticipate, and soon she is caught between a past she is desperate to escape and a future she may forever regret.

It was a match made in champagne-soaked heaven, but all too soon the bubbles dried up and divorce papers were issued just in time to ring in the end of the Great War. Jewel thieves and ex-lovers Jasper and Esme find themselves circulating among the elite of British aristocracy where the diamond-lined pockets are ripe for picking. But when the last Valkyrie tiara ever created becomes the talk of the season neither will stop to obtain it, not even when they inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a game of cat-and-mouse where their lives are suddenly at stake.

Standing in the remote windswept moors of Northern England, Coldwell Hall is the perfect place to hide. For the past five years, Kate Furniss has maintained her professional mask so carefully that she almost believes she is the character she has created: Coldwell’s respectable housekeeper. It is the summer of 1911 that brings new faces above and below the stairs of Coldwell Hall—including the handsome and mysterious new footman, Jem Arden. Just as the house’s shuttered rooms open, so does Kate’s guarded heart to a love affair that is as intense as it is forbidden.

Die Freiheit unter den Pinien. 1944 an der Côte d’Azur: Die Künstlerin Marguerite wird vom britischen Geheimdienst angeworben, um sich mit dem örtlichen Priester anzufreunden. Über Etienne soll sie an Informationen über die deutschen Offiziere, die seine Kirche besuchen, gelangen. Doch damit, dass sie sich in den Priester verlieben würde, hat Marguerite nicht gerechnet. Zumal ihre Verbindung sie beide zunehmend in Gefahr bringt. Denn Marguerite bewahrt ein Geheimnis – eines, das sie selbst dem Mann, den sie liebt, nicht anzuvertrauen vermag.

Having grown up surrounded by nature, Bella Gardner loves nothing more than getting her hands dirty. When war breaks out, she immediately signs up for the Air Transport Auxiliary, frustrated she can’t play a more active role, yet keen to do something for the war effort. But when her brother is involved in a tragic accident, Bella must make a decision that changes the course of her life forever.

Rani, the bright and spirited daughter of an Indian Crown Prince, leads a privileged if lonely life. Longing for freedom, she escapes the confines of her father’s palace and meets Prasad – a poor young man – with whom she falls deeply in love. But her plan to gain her father’s approval for the match disastrously backfires. Estranged from her family and haunted by guilt, Rani’s path takes her from Cambridge to Bletchley Park and a new world of intrigue and secrets. Against the backdrop of war, Rani finds comfort and a sense of belonging with fellow codebreaker William and his young son.

Bonnie and Mansour are meant to be: two children abandoned by their mothers from opposite sides of the Black Atlantic, who find each other in New York in 1968 and set about making music that will change the world. Mansour’s sound is unique: a fusion of Senegalese prayer songs, and the wild beats of East Coast American jazz. His voice soars and lifts, carrying away the hearts of all who hear him; carrying away Bonnie, a lost American girl with her own troubled past. As they travel together from New York to Paris, to Rio and Switzerland, Mansour’s music forges connections and breaks new ground.

Bangkok, 1975. Alexa Wu är supermodell och har rest till alla världens stora modestäder. Nu återvänder hon till Bangkok och på flygplatsen står en speciell man redo att hämta henne. Sedan deras möte i den stora rosa villan har han inte kunnat glömma henne – och nu ska de bo under samma tak.The Hamptons, 1995. Alexa har samlat sina vänner från ungdomens Bangkok, och nu börjar hemligheterna att avslöjas.

As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fiercely proud redhead Sylvia Roberts is determined to help in any way she can. In spite of her mother’s belief she isn’t good enough, Sylvia believes that becoming a home front nurse is her calling. Together with the two friends she makes on her first day in the job – Freda and Veronica – she knows she can help save lives. And, as the devastation of war shows no signs of ceasing, their work becomes ever more vital.