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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.

Gigi, the daughter of a struggling theatre singer, is left in the care of her great-aunt and grandmother, both former courtesans. Determined to teach Gigi the family business, they begin a series of lessons involving lace, expensive meals and cigars – all in the art of pleasing men. Gigi, soon bored of their antics and unconvinced of their instruction, rebels.

How far must you run to leave the past behind you? It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of...

A gripping mystery with a heart-breaking revelation, The Secrets Between Us is a sublimely satisfying story of lost love, betrayal and the dangers of war. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton's The Lake House and Dinah Jeffries' Before the Rains. High in the mountains in the South of France...

När 18-åriga Iola står inför ett tvångsäktenskap med en rik, äldre man ser hon ingen annan utväg än att fly. Hon söker skydd hos sin gamla barnskötare Nanny som precis ska ge sig av för att ta ett nytt barnvaktsjobb hos en lord i södra Frankrike. Iola vet inte vad hon ska ta sig till, hon har ingen annanstans att ta vägen och snart försvinner hennes sista trygga hamn. Men under natten dör Nanny och Iola fattar ett drastiskt beslut som leder henne rakt i armarna på hennes livs kärlek och äventyr.

När Sally St. Vincents faster går bort bestämmer hon sig för att lämna det lugna livet på den engelska landsbygden och återvända till sin mor, Lynn Lystell, i London. Det finns bara ett problem. Sally är inte alls säker på att hennes mor kommer vilja ta emot henne. Lynn Lystell är nämligen en världskänd skådespelerska och det faktum att hon har en dotter är en väl bevarad hemlighet som hon haft i 18 år nu. Mot alla odds tar Lynn emot Sally men det dröjer inte länge förrän konflikter börjar pyra under ytan. Samtidigt tvingas Sally konfrontera sina känslor gentemot sin fästman.

Léa de Lonval, a wealthy, beautiful forty-nine-year-old courtesan, is coming to the end of her career. Her lover, the young and fiercely handsome Fred Peloux – otherwise known as Chéri – is having to face his own reality, with an advantageous marriage arranged by his mother on the horizon. Both lovers, despite their six-year history, reluctantly decide it's time to end their affair. Yet their connection is more difficult to let go of than either of them care to admit…

She gave up the stage for love. Now the man she married barely looks at her. For listeners who love emotionally intense historical romance, forbidden love, and impossible choices, The Soldier and the Swan is set in World War II–era San Francisco, where duty collides with desire and one woman must choose between the life she vowed to protect and the one she can’t forget. San Francisco, 1943: Vivienne Hartley, the city’s prima ballerina, gave up the spotlight to care for her war-wounded husband, Charlie Sterling.

A passionate young artist falls disastrously in love with a woman he can never truly have. What begins as longing soon becomes obsession, drawing him deeper into a world where beauty, desire, and despair are impossible to separate. Set against the restless intensity of youth, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a timeless portrait of emotional excess — the kind of love that feels larger than life and more dangerous because of it.

The Beauty of Individual Things follows Margot Andrews, a young American woman swept from New York high society into the dazzling yet fractured world of 1920s London. When the transactional demands of privilege collide with betrayal and violence, leaving her disillusioned and adrift, she escapes...

Corren los primeros días de enero de 1903 y el profesor Alexander Quills, un hombre sabio que estudia las nuevas ciencias que exploran el mundo del más allá, vuelve a su casa de Oxford después de asistir a unas conferencias en Londres. Oliver Saunders, joven y tímido, trabaja mientras tanto en su pequeño cuarto de Balliol College, rodeado de diccionarios y novelas, y Lionel Lennox, amante de la buena vida y de las mujeres, está en Egipto, a punto de profanar la tumba de una princesa para llevarse una joya de inestimable valor.

رواية أدبية اجتماعية، تتناول حكاية لورا، عارضة الأزياء المتميزة، التي اضطرت إلى ترك عملها، وأن تستبدل به عملًا آخر، كي تتمكّن من رعاية ابن أختها الصغير، الذي صار مسؤوليتها المطلقة بعد وفاة أختها ماري. لكنها لم تتوقع أن يقوم أخوه بالبحث في مراسلاته ليكتشف أنّ ماري قد أنجبت من جوليانو، مما اضطرّ روبرتو ماسيني أن يترك بلاده ويسافر إلى العنوان، كي يلتقي بوالدة الطفل.

An all-new edition of the the charming multi-generational novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You. In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she...

As winter tightens its grip, who can she trust? As the dark nights draw in, secrets hide in the shadows… When Betsy Strong’s mother marries a cruel man, her happy family life is shattered, and Betsy is forced to flee. Seeking refuge with her godmother at her isolated Yorkshire cottage, she...

Will a wartime Christmas bring them heartache or joy? A moving tale of secrets, sacrifice and second chances It’s 1943, and the sisters and cousins of Victory Walk are keeping the home fires burning as war rages on. Beneath their own rooftops, secrets are simmering … Daisy juggles long days...

»Weißt du noch, mit welchen Worten Du Dich von mir verabschiedet hast,als wir nicht wussten, dass dies nicht nur ein Abschied bis zum nächsten Tage war? Mit den gleichen Worten möchte ich nun diesen Brief schließen – auf ein Wiedersehen! Deine Marie «Johann ist Flugzeugmechaniker der Wehrmacht, als er Marie kennenlernt. Sie wird alsStenografin bei den Zwangsaussiedlungen in Rann an der Save eingesetzt, wo er stationiertist. Für den 19-jährigen Johann ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Er kann sein Glück kaumfassen, als Marie einem Treffen zustimmt.

March 1940. Bradford mill girl Molly Clough can hardly believe it when she successfully auditions for ENSA, the organisation that entertains the troops. Despite the much-mocked ENSA's reputation as 'Every Night Something Awful', singing on stage feels like a dream come true for Molly. But as she tours with her troupe, the Forces Follies, life proves to be far from the glamorous showbusiness world Molly had imagined.

1937. Shy but determined Tilly Truscott leaves her Hampshire home to train as a nurse at the Royal County Hospital on the Isle of Wight, where she finds an unexpected friend in vivacious Fliss Marcheson. She also catches the eye of handsome Dr Jonathan Burrows. Meanwhile, Tilly's beloved nephew Ronnie begins an apprenticeship at a local aeronautical company, but dreams of becoming a pilot.

Bridget O'Byrne thought she was building the future with her brilliant business partner and cutting-edge AI technology. Eighteen months later, she's trapped in Sydney, financially ruined, and under the controlling influence of Antony Saar. Back on the family property she once dismissed as old-fashioned, Bridget struggles to rebuild her life. Her path to recovery takes an unexpected turn when she reconnects with Danny Walsh, a quietly competent stockman who was her closest friend in primary school.

He only offered her passage to Alaska. But they end up fighting for something bigger along the way... Maggie McDougal is determined to save her family’s land after her parents’ sudden deaths. And if that means leaving the sandy shores of Lake Michigan and traveling across the country to Washington Territory in search of her brother so he can claim the land, then so be it. Anything is better than watching the land she loves fall into her uncle’s greedy, conniving hands. The trouble is, when the ship that her brother works on arrives in Bellingham, her brother isn’t on it.