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Fall, 1941. Agatha Stuart is 30 years old, well established in Old Maid territory with no prospects on the horizon. She wants to be content with her life as it is — job as postmistress and living at home with her parents, but she isn’t. She longs for more.

Wiltshire, December 1915. Widow Olivia Hanbury is persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is serving in France. When he's wounded and returns home to convalesce, tensions immediately rise between him and lively Olivia. But things begin to look up when Olivia becomes involved in starting the new Women's Institutes and is introduced to Alex, an antiques dealer. Meanwhile, Phoebe Latimer is holding the fort at Greyladies, an ancient manor house, while her husband is away at war. But someone is attempting to rid Greyladies of the German internees based there.

Step back into the world of Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters . . . From Harry Whittaker, the co-author of the instant No. 1 international bestseller Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, comes an epic mystery set in the world of the Seven Sisters. Reader-favourite antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes –...

‘This is a novel to savor. It is as cozy and inviting as the cottage at its heart – and just as full of hidden treasures’ CHRISTINA LAURAN, bestselling author of The Unhoonymooners Inspired by the viral 'treasure houses' on social media, a single mother and her daughter relocate to rural...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Daphne du Maurier stole my life.' Mrs Danowski – known as Danni – is the housekeeper of a grand house on the wild coast of Cornwall. When a glamorous young writer, Daphne du Maurier, visits Manderville Hall to research her new novel, she and Danni are drawn into a...

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She believes her dreams have been buried until one is rekindled—but the other threatens to cost her everything she loves. Kallie Mae Bertram has harbored two dreams since childhood: to learn to read and to one day marry Quinn Spencer. But her first dream slipped away after her little sister...

After breaking free from childhood oppression, Angelina hopes to find solace alongside the man of her dreams. But when shadows from the past twist her future, those dreams revert to mere illusions. Desperate and committed, she endures until one tragic night turns her world on its head. Amidst suffragette rallies and societal upheaval, Angelina's resilience is put to the ultimate test as she must choose, once again, the price she is willing to pay to follow her heart.

Eighteen-year-old Junie Wallace is a smart girl and, with two brothers away at war and a third recently killed in action, she knows there is only one way to save the family farm for her grieving parents. Unfortunately, that solution involves marrying the unscrupulous Ernest, and breaking the heart of the young drover she loves, Michael. But the war is looming ever closer, and when Pearl Harbour brings the threat of Japanese aggression to Australian shores, the fates of many becomes inextricably interwoven.

During World War I, the ancient manor house of Greyladies in rural Wiltshire is requisitioned for a hospital. Living in Swindon, Phoebe Sinclair is unaware of any connection to Greyladies and the Latimers. She loses her job when her German employers are interned because of the war. When Phoebe is posted to the hospital at Greyladies, she feels she's come home. But Frank is still pursuing her and Corin has his own problems. With obstacles at every turn, can Phoebe find happiness and embrace the role of mistress of Greyladies?

Gracie McLeod's life changes overnight when her father sells the family grocer's shop and moves the family from their Highland village to a distant fishing town. Desperate to maintain her independence, she reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage to Angus MacKenzie – a stranger who makes it clear he doesn't want her, and who is in love with another woman. When Gracie arrives at the mill she now must call home, she finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and ambition.

A Romance Hidden in Time follows historian Emily Carter as she uncovers a bundle of WWII-era love letters hidden beneath the floorboards of an old house. The letters—written by Private James Hamilton to Clara Bennett—reveal a tender, determined love shaped by distance, fear, hope, and the quiet courage of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.

From the frenetic atmosphere of Manhattan to the magnificent wide-open plains of Africa, The Sun Sister is the sixth epic tale in the Seven Sisters series by the number one bestseller Lucinda Riley. A breathtaking story of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation...

Amos Darby, hijo de un granjero, sabía que sus sueños de un futuro con Charlotte Terrington, hija de un conde, eran inalcanzables. Sin embargo, su amistad secreta perduró durante años… hasta que la brutalidad de la Gran Guerra destruyó sus sueños y les robó la juventud. Amos regresa a casa marcado por las cicatrices de las trincheras décadas después, alejado de los amores perdidos. Ha encontrado refugio en su librería, un rincón solitario en un mundo que ya no reconoce.

Una travesía de amor y libros que desafía el tiempo 1912. Harry Widener, un apasionado coleccionista de libros, sube a bordo del Titanic llevando consigo un libro invaluable que acaba de adquirir en Londres. Tras la terrible catástrofe del barco ni el joven ni el ejemplar vuelven a ser vistos...

Kathleen Gallagher is sixteen when she shares her first kiss with Liam Flynn, the older brother of her best friend. The bells were ringing in the New Year and snow was falling: it was the perfect romantic moment. But Kathleen knows they can never be together. Three years later, it's 1939, and...

Rebecca Blume e Ben Heath sono due editor rivali, costretti a condividere la scrivania a giorni alterni, con loro grande disappunto. Non essendosi mai visti prima, iniziano a lasciare post-it passivo-aggressivi sul vaso del loro cactus condiviso. Ma quando il leggendario scrittore Edward David Adams, noto come «il Leone», muore, lasciando in palio la sua ultima opera e il suo patrimonio letterario, la loro battaglia di bigliettini si trasforma in una guerra serrata: entrambi lavorano febbrilmente per ottenere quella che potrebbe essere la grande occasione della loro carriera.

For as long as I can remember, I have been completely infatuated with Daniel Ríos. A shame, because not only is he twelve years older and painfully indifferent to my existence, but Daniel also left eight years ago, signing up to join the DEA while I was still signing out of homeroom. Now, I'm just back from college, right back under my family's supervision, and more than a little surprised to find I'm not the only one back home. This time, is it too much to hope that he might see me, too?

By day young Mirren Jarvis works in the twisting department at Ferguslie Thread Mills and by night she works in a local fried-fish shop. She also cares for her sick mother and forgoes the freedom and luxuries her friends enjoy, dreaming of the day her fiancé, Donald, will send for her to come and live with him in America. In the aftermath of the Great War, many of the women in Mirren's life are struggling.