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Die junge Christine ist der neue Star der Pariser Oper! Sie verzaubert das Publikum mit ihrem Gesang und trifft darüber hinaus ihren Kindheitsfreund Raoul wieder. Doch ihr Glück wird von einer geheimnisvollen Figur überschattet: Einer maskierten Gestalt, Christines Engel der Musik, für andere hingegen das gefürchtete Phantom der Oper.

Can we ever truly return to the life we once knew? Set in the years following the First World War, The Last of Chéri is Colette's poignant sequel to Chéri, exploring the lingering effects of love, memory and a world forever changed. Chéri, once the charming and carefree darling of Parisian society, returns from the war to find that the glamour and certainty of his former life have faded.

Dieses Haus hält Seelen für immer gefangen. Ich dachte, ich hätte meine Seele meinem Ehemann geschenkt, als ich versprach, ihn bis an mein Lebensende zu lieben. Doch das war gelogen. Nichts hätte mich auf den Tag vorbereiten können, an dem mein Phantom zum ersten Mal draußen vor meinem Fenster stand.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change is the fifth volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). Includes a new introduction, written and read by Gill Hornby...

A sweeping and emotional World War II novel for readers of Soraya M. Lane and Veronica Leigh. ‘Heartbreaking and hopeful’ Kate Galley 'An engaging story of fortitude … and unexpected love' Anita Frank 'A moving story of love, sacrifice and survival' Suzanne Fortin 'A gripping and original...

France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

Inspirado nos acontecimentos verídicos em torno da destruição da cidade de Iola nos anos 1960, Siga como um rio é a história de um amor avassalador, de pessoas que seguem em frente, fluindo e carregando tudo pelo caminho, ainda que diante de tantos obstáculos. Victoria Nash é apenas uma adolescente na década de 1940, mas já é responsável por todos os afazeres da casa, numa fazenda de pêssegos na cidadezinha de Iola, no Colorado – a única mulher num lar de homens cheios de problemas.

For fans of KJ Charles's The Magpie Lord and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, this Lammy-nominated twentieth-century American romance follows a graduate student through a magical, queernorm version of the 1960s as he joins forces with an archivist to fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov...

Set in the 1940s during German occupation of France, remember, Paris follows Sophia, a young American, who arrives in Paris with only a suitcase, and a fragile sense of Hope. She finds work in a small café, determined to survive quietly in a city that’s being reshaped by war. Then she meets Derek – a Greek fisherman with a steady gaze, a weathered boat called the calypso, and a heart carrying its own scars. What begins as a simple connection soon deepens into something far more powerful.

Auschwitz, 1945. The gates are flung open. Prisoners flee for their lives. But as Celina stumbles toward safety, a man in a German uniform seizes her arm. She knows it’s impossible… but he looks just like her husband. Celina has given up hope of ever leaving Auschwitz. Only memories of her beloved husband Noah keep her sane—her childhood sweetheart, her protector, once her entire world. If she allows herself to remember that he was killed, she knows she’ll be lost too…Now, as the Soviets liberate the camp, Celina screams when a man in a German uniform grabs her.

Bloomsbury presents Lizzie’s Daughters by Rosie Clarke, read by Juliette Burton FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIZZIE'S SECRET and LIZZIE'S WAR. LONDON 1958. Lizzie Larch battles to keep her daughters safe and out of harm's reach. Perfect for the fans of Nadine Dorries and Lyn Andrews. Lizzie...

England, 1948. It’s been ten years since Lola arrived from Germany as a Jewish refugee. Even now, she can’t think about the family she lost, or her heartbreak will destroy her. Instead, Lola looks to the future: the new family she’s found working in a job she adores as an airline stewardess, and the butterflies she feels around handsome pilot Brian – though the thought of opening her heart again terrifies her.

When rivals Violet Whittemore and Cyril Burke are forced to share leadership of Locke Hill College, their fierce competition turns to unexpected affection—and a lesson in love. Violet Whittemore has spent her life proving she’s every bit as capable as the men who doubt her. Opening Locke...

Von Bild-#1-Bestsellerautorin Ada Caine: Die junge Hanna muss sich in ihrer Doppelrolle als Gouvernante und Komtess behaupten. Die verarmte Komtess Hanna begleitet die einflussreiche Gräfin Valeria als Gouvernante ihrer lebhaften Enkelin Antonia nach Heiligendamm. Dort besteht Gräfin Valeria darauf, dass Hanna sich wie ihr Schützling kleidet, sodass diese zwischen ihrer Rolle als Gouvernante und ihrer adeligen Herkunft hin- und hergerissen wird.

Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn. It’s 1964, and Iris’s memory is fading. She’s certain that only Emma can do justice to her novel about a murder on the Isle of Skye. When Emma ventures to Scotland for research, she discovers it isn’t fiction at all, but rather a true crime unsolved for more than fifty years.

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

An epic tale of courage, love and heroism inspired by the true stories of women working as journalists during the Vietnam War. 1967. Jude Murphy has never taken no for an answer. When the Associated Press refuses to send her to cover Vietnam, she books her own flight to Saigon – typewriter in...

When Donald Prime opens his eyes, he finds himself lying on the shore of an unknown lake deep in the Canadian wilderness — his clothes on, his surroundings completely unfamiliar, and beside him a woman he has never seen before. Neither of them has any idea how they got there, or why. Their...

Young Maria Neubauer’s heart is happiest when it is singing. With dreams of performing for admiring fans across the globe, she says farewell to her German home for fame and fortune abroad. But what Maria finds in America is not quite what she had envisioned. Her hopes of being idolized are dashed when the American Civil War prevents her rise to stardom. Could God have another path for her life? Is this the love of honor she should be seeking when orphans and freed slaves are being mistreated amid a war?