Whether your passion is The Ancient Greeks, The Wars of The Roses or The Russian Revolution, you'll find stories of life during these eras and every other, often using factual accounts to build a fictional narrative.
Historical Fiction Books
Headline Publishing Group Domina
Book SynopsisAgrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of Agrippina''s battle to survive in and control the depraved and violent Imperial Roman court, and the crumbling relationship between mother and son.Trade ReviewPraise for Paul Doherty's other novels: 'I really like these medieval whodunnits * Bookseller *A romping good read * Time Out *Historically informative, excellently plotted and, as ever, superbly entertaining * CADS 20 *This rich tale ... seeps authenticity and is written with wonderfully efficient style. A gem of an historical thriller * Huddersfield Daily Examiner *
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Headline Publishing Group Many a Tear has to Fall A warm tender heartfelt
Book SynopsisThings are finally looking up for George and Ann Richardson. After causing years of worry, their younger daughter Tess, who had always been sickly and small, is starting to blossom into a confident, clever girl. It will be some time before she catches up with her older sister Maddy, but her family know she''ll soon be just as strong. And they''ve just scraped together enough money to take them on their first holiday, to Wales, where the country life will be just what they need. But heartache is waiting for the family when they return to Liverpool, and many a tear will have to fall before they find the true happiness they long for...Trade ReviewPraise for Joan Jonker: 'As usual our Joan has come up with a story full of laughter and smiles * Liverpool Echo *Hilarious and touching stories of life in Liverpool * Woman's Realm *
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Headline Publishing Group After the Dance is Over
Book SynopsisThere''s never a dull moment when Nellie McDonough and Molly Bennett get together, and there''s always something to keep them busy in their Liverpool street. First, Molly''s son Tommy sets the date for his wedding to Rosie O''Grady, and everyone''s saving hard to ensure their day is perfect. Then a new family arrive in the area and their daughter is determined to put a stop to the budding romance between Nellie''s son Paul and Phoebe Corkhill. Meanwhile, Molly''s daughter Doreen and her husband Phil make an announcement, and Nellie and Molly are determined to track down Phil''s long lost family, so that they can share in the joyful news...Trade ReviewPraise for Joan Jonker: 'As usual our Joan has come up with a story full of laughter and smiles * Liverpool Echo *Hilarious and touching stories of life in Liverpool * Woman's Realm *
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Headline Publishing Group The Urchins Song Has she found the key to
Book SynopsisThe approach of the twentieth century means little to Josie Burns and her family; living in Sunderland''s slum area, they battle dirt, cold and hunger on a daily basis. Josie''s brothers and sisters are terrified of their violent alcoholic father, but Josie is not like the rest, for she has something that will enable her to rise out of the slums: a beautiful singing voice, with which even as a child she earns enough pennies to keep her father happy. When she discovers that her father is trying to put her younger sister, Gertie, on the game, Josie and Gertie flee the family home, taking refuge with a friend. By educating herself and taking singing lessons, Josie starts on the journey to success and security - but can she also find love?Trade ReviewPraise for Rita Bradshaw: 'Catherine Cookson fans will enjoy discovering a new author who writes in a similar vein * Home and Family *If you like gritty, rags-to-riches Northern sagas, you'll enjoy this * Family Circle *What an emotional rollercoaster ride of a book! It grabs your attention from page one and does not let go until the end * Sunderland Echo *Displaying an uncanny ability to spin a good yarn * Sunderland Echo *All published writers have skill and creativity, but a few have more. It's called magic. I'm beginning to believe Bradshaw has it! * Historical Novels Review *
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Headline Publishing Group Candles in the Storm
Book SynopsisThe storm that''s raging when fisherman''s daughter Daisy Appleby is born in a village just north of Sunderland could be taken as a warning of a turbulent life ahead. It''s during another storm fifteen years later that her father and brothers are lost and Daisy rescues William, heir of a wealthy Southwick family, with whom she falls in love. Soon, as her reward for saving him, Daisy is working for William''s irascible aunt, while local lad Alf continues to court her. Warned off by Daisy''s grandmother, William denies his own feelings and so it will be many years later, after much hardship and turmoil, that Daisy finds the happiness she deserves, amidst the drama of the Great War.Trade ReviewPraise for Rita Bradshaw: 'Catherine Cookson fans will enjoy discovering a new author who writes in a similar vein * Home and Family *If you like gritty, rags-to-riches Northern sagas, you'll enjoy this * Family Circle *What an emotional rollercoaster ride of a book! It grabs your attention from page one and does not let go until the end * Sunderland Echo *Displaying an uncanny ability to spin a good yarn * Sunderland Echo *All published writers have skill and creativity, but a few have more. It's called magic. I'm beginning to believe Bradshaw has it! * Historical Novels Review *
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Headline Publishing Group Seven Dials Thomas Pitt Mystery Book 23
Book SynopsisThomas Pitt is summoned to the offices of Victor Narraway, head of the Imperial Secret Service. An ex-army officer and promising young diplomat has been shot and the prime suspect is the Egyptian mistress of a senior cabinet minister. But some things don''t add up at the scene of the murder. When the Egyptian Ambassador puts in a call to Prime Minister Gladstone, it seems a major diplomatic row is brewing. Thomas is convinced Narraway knows more than he claims, and Pitt''s wife Charlotte fears there could be involvement with the secret organisation that destroyed Pitt''s Metropolitan Police career and nearly cost him his life. Can Pitt tread the tense diplomatic tightrope between protecting justice, the security of his country, and the safety of his family?Trade Review'From the Victorian murder capital of smog-hit London to the exotic land of the Pharaohs, this thrilling whodunnit is a must for all devotees of the classic murder mystery' Western Mail 22/2/03 * Western Mail *'Frequently compared to the great contemporary chronicler, Charles Dickens, Perry has a more simplistic perspective on the era, its social pleasures and their consequences...Offering an interesting slant on the grandeur of Britain's Empire, this novel will please fans of the series, especially those who enjoy the teamwork of Mr and Mrs Pitt' Scottish Sunday Herald 16/2/03 * Scottish Sunday Herald *'Anne Perry's novels of Victorian England are the equivalent of steak-and-kidney pudding or apple tart and custard; comfort food, plain cooking with no fancy ingredients. Frequently compared to the great contemporary chronicler, Charles Dickens, Perry has a more simplistic perspective on the era, its social pleasures and their consequences...Offering an interesting slant on the grandeur of Britain's Empire, this novel will please fans of the series, especially those who enjoy the teamwork of Mr and Mrs Pitt' Scottish Sunday Herald 16/2/03 * Scottish Sunday Herald *'Frequent readers of Perry cherish the magical passport she provides into the age of Victoria at its brilliant zenith' Western Mail 22/2/03 * Western Mail *'Miss Perry's leading protagonists are as finely and deeply drawn as any in her field and her feel for the Victorian era is unrivalled in her generation' Huddersfield Daily Examiner 8/2/03 * Huddersfield Daily Examiner *'Intricately plotted and painstakingly researched...Anne Perry brings alive the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian England in convincing detail' Western Daily Press (Bristol) 15/2/03 * Western Daily Press (Bristol) *
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Headline Publishing Group The Shifting Tide William Monk Mystery Book 14
Book SynopsisWhen the Maude Idris docks at the Pool of London, laden with ebony, spices and first-grade tusks of ivory collected from her voyage to Zanzibar, Clement Louvain leaves four armed seamen on board to guard the precious cargo. But as soon as the relief for the night watch arrives ready for duty in the morning, he finds the ivory gone and one of the seamen dead. Hindered by his ignorance of the river and its customs, and ashamed of the fact that he so badly requires the huge fees that Louvain is prepared to pay, William Monk nevertheless begins his investigation into the theft and murder. Meanwhile Hester''s work at the refuge at Portpool Lane is encountering acute financial difficulties. Sick prostitutes are arriving daily and the medicines needed to help them are running out. When a man arrives promising to pay a huge amount of money for the care of one particular woman, Hester is astonished to meet him. He is none other than Clement Louvain. So who is the woman he is so generously heTrade Review'Anne Perry not only writes a dashed good story but almost outdoes Dickens for atmosphere and portrayal of the sleazy side of life' Northern Echo, 24/2/04 * Northern Echo *'Anne Perry not only writes a dashed good story but almost outdoes Dickens for atmosphere and portrayal of the sleazy side of life' Northern Echo, 24/2/04 * Northern Echo *'Anne Perry's command of story-telling and power of description is terrifyingly real...meaningful and illustrious writing, as if watching live theatre. She has such perception of passion too' Bangor Chronicle, 26/2/04 * Bangor Chronicle *'Perry uses her characters and story to comment on ethical issues that remain as relevant today as they were in Victorian times' Publishers Weekly, 29/3/04 * Publishers Weekly *
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Allison & Busby My Lady Deceiver
Book Synopsis1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind. Having boarded the ship with one identity, fate decrees that Rosie leave it with another ...Trade Review'An inspiring novel' Daily Telegraph
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Allison & Busby Saffron Lane 3 Peppercorn
Book SynopsisNell feels very at home in Wiltshire but she could do with a challenge. Bringing life back to an abandoned row of houses is just what she's looking for. Stacy is trying to start over. And Elise longs for a home where she can get back to her painting. When their paths cross, the future starts to look brighter although not all goes according to plan.
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Allison & Busby Peace Comes to Honeyfield The Honeyfield Series 3
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby A Place of Hope 1 Hope Trilogy
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby In Search of Hope 2 Hope Trilogy
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Marrying Simone The heartwarming story of moving
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Moving On
Book SynopsisMolly Peel feels trapped by her family. When she is blamed for ruining her daughter's wedding, Molly decides enough is enough and moves to Wiltshire to begin a new life. But the interference of her ex presents difficulties. Can Molly find the courage to stand up for herself and finally move on?
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Allison & Busby The Outrageous Fortune of Abel Morgan
Book SynopsisCynthia Jefferies is a long-established writer for children, whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She was born in Gloucestershire and her love of history was encouraged by regular family outings to anything of interest, from great cathedrals to small museums. The Outrageous Fortune of Abel Morgan was her first historical novel for adults and was published to great critical acclaim. She lives in Stroud.Trade ReviewThe Times 'An enjoyable romp' 'The Times historical fiction picks'
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Allison & Busby The Sewing Room Girl The unputdownable story of
Book SynopsisSusanna Bavin has variously been a librarian, an infant school teacher, a carer and a cook. She lives in Llandudno in North Wales with her husband and two rescue cats, but her writing is inspired by her Mancunian roots.
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Allison & Busby Changing Lara A brand new series from the
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Finding Cassie A touching story of family Penny
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Stealing Roses
Book SynopsisHeather Cooper grew up in the north of England and has fond memories corresponding with writers such as P. D. James and Seamus Heaney during her time working at Faber & Faber. She later worked for the National Trust and even for the NHS, but now lives on the Isle of Wight with her partner.
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Allison & Busby The Girl from Kingsland Market Danger and romance
Book SynopsisJune Tate was born in Southampton and spent the early years of her childhood in the Cotswolds. After leaving school she became a hairdresser on cruise ships the Queen Mary and the Mauretania, meeting many Hollywood film stars and VIPs on her travels. After her marriage to an airline pilot, she lived in Sussex and Hampshire before moving to Estoril in Portugal, and then back to Sussex. June passed away in 2019.
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Allison & Busby Change of Season Love family and change from the
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.Trade Review'Jacobs excels at creating vivid, memorable characters' Booklist
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Allison & Busby From this Day Forward The exceptional historical
Book SynopsisBeryl Matthews was born in London but now lives in a small village in Hampshire. As a young girl her ambition was to become a professional singer, but the need to earn a wage drove her into an office. After retiring she joined a Writers' Circle in hopes of fulfilling her dream of becoming a published author. She has since written over twenty novels.
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Allison & Busby The Straits of Treachery The thrilling historical
Book SynopsisRichard Hopton is an author, historian and journalist. He has published three works of non-fiction, and The Straits of Treachery will be his first historical novel. Richard graduated from the University of Oxford with an M.A. in Modern History. His interests include architecture, the British countryside, art, politics, cricket, racing and springer spaniels. He lives in Dorset with his wife and two children.
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Allison & Busby The Straits of Treachery
Book SynopsisA tale of war, treachery and divided loyalties, The Straits of Treachery is set in Sicily during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Allison & Busby Maras Choice
Book SynopsisWhen Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a child, her world is turned upside down. Aaron Buchanan only discovered that he had a daughter a couple of years ago and now he''s desperate to play a part in her life. In the face of her mother''s opposition, Mara arranges to meet her father and his family.In a breath-taking corner of the world, amid a waterfront community on Australia''s west coast, will Mara find him the disappointment that her mother promises? And when Australia brings another man into her life, she''s faced with some huge decisions and some heartrending choices.
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Allison & Busby Sarahs Gift
Book SynopsisAt the age of ninety-five, Sarah Blakemere signs her final will and testament, pleased with how it will throw the cat among the family pigeons. She has left her luxurious home in Mandurah, Western Australia, to two female relatives in the UK, on the condition that they live in the house together for a year. After that they can sell and split the money, but if either of them doesn''t last the full year, the next person on the list will be invited to try for the inheritance. Will the experience do as Sarah had hoped and shake Portia and Fleur out of their ruts? And when they find another surprise bequest from Sarah, what will they do with it? Life-changing decisions lie ahead .
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Allison & Busby In Focus
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Together Under the Stars
Book SynopsisBeryl Matthews was born in London but now lives in a small village in Hampshire. As a young girl her ambition was to become a professional singer, but the need to earn a wage drove her into an office. After retiring she joined a Writers' Circle in hopes of fulfilling her dream of becoming a published author. She has since written over twenty novels.
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Allison & Busby Chestnut Lane
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby Bloomsbury Girls
Book SynopsisNatalie Jenner's debut novel The Jane Austen Society was an instant international bestseller. Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie has been a corporate lawyer, career coach and, most recently, an independent bookstore owner. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
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Allison & Busby Larch Tree Lane
Book SynopsisAnna Jacobs was born in Lancashire at the beginning of the Second World War. She has lived in different parts of England as well as Australia and has enjoyed setting her modern and historical novels in both countries. She is addicted to telling stories and recently celebrated the publication of her one hundredth novel, as well as sixty years of marriage. Anna has sold over four million copies of her books to date.
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Allison & Busby The Other Princess
Book SynopsisA princess enslaved becomes goddaughter to a queen. By the time she was seven years old, Aina had been born into life as an Egbado princess, witnessed the brutal killing of her entire family, and had been enslaved to a rival chieftain. With a death sentence hanging over her head, she would also face being bartered as an exotic trophy, renamed and presented to the distant Queen Victoria as a ''gift''. From traumatic beginnings, Sarah Forbes Bonetta''s will to survive led her to negotiate Her Majesty''s court, cultivate friends in high places and to flourish in a world far removed from her rural African upbringing. From West Africa to Windsor Castle, The Other Princess is a vivid imagining of the life of Queen Victoria''s Black goddaughter, shining a light on a woman searching for home, love and identity.
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Allison & Busby The Other Princess
Book Synopsis1850. A ship sets sail from the West coast of Africa, bound for the distant shores of England. It carries on board a young princess who, at seven years old, has faced unimaginable trauma in her homeland, and must brave an uncertain future. Aina will disembark under grey skies as Sarah Forbes Bonetta, an exotic trophy to be presented to Queen Victoria as a ''gift''.
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Allison & Busby The Paris Peacemakers
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Allison & Busby The Paris Peacemakers
Book Synopsis1919, Paris. As the guns fall silent, The Paris Peacemakers follows those attempting to start afresh while the fabric of Europe is stitched together for good or ill.Stella Rutherford, desperate to staunch her grief, has thrown herself into her work at the International Peace Conference, while the crucial negotiations play out. Her sister Corran is also headed to France where the wounds of war are still fresh for many, including her fiancé Rob Campbell. Rob, one of the few surviving members of a celebrated Scottish rugby team, has been profoundly marked by his time as a surgeon on the front line.What comes next for each of them?
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Allison & Busby The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay
Book Synopsis1927. Flight fever is running high and daring flyers are all anyone can talk about. And now the Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous former film star and regular name in gossip columns, has a new ambition - to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Elsie''s friend Stella Campbell once felt at the heart of world events, but now post-war hopes are frayed and marriage and motherhood have worn away her sense of self. In recent years, Stella''s sister Corran has been wrapped up in her books and academic career, determinedly single, or so it seems. But when Corran''s carefully guarded secrets start to emerge, will she choose to follow her heart? The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay takes the moving story of a pioneering Scottish aviator and weaves in the threads of other women straining to reach for their dreams on the cusp of an uncertain future.
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Allison & Busby The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay
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Allison & Busby City of Silk
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Allison & Busby The Silent Resistance
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Allison & Busby One Good Thing
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Vintage Publishing Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.Trade ReviewCerebral, rollicking murder-mystery. -- James Marriott * The Times *Mesmerising, macarbre and totally brilliant * Daily Mail *He has pulled off the greatest coup of all, a four-square crime novel...as aesthetically satisfying as it is morally shocking * Independent on Sunday *Knowledge fuels psychosis, but in Ackroyd's hands it also fuels a flawlessly good read * Observer *This brilliant novel pervades the midnight movies of the mind and makes the blood run chilly * Daily Mail *
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Vintage Publishing Island of the Day Before
Book SynopsisThe year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim...Trade ReviewNo comparable book has ever existed... The exuberance of the narrative and sheer sumptuousness of the language possess a precision for which everything in Eco's earlier writing had prepared us, but equally a panache for which nothing had * Sunday Times *Vintage Eco...full of verbal conjuring: both an enjoyable fable and a skillful parade of recent literary theory and history of science * The Times *A great feast of words * Times Literary Supplement *Every age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before...This novel belings in the great tradition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide. We are left energized, exhilarated by the sheer sensory excitement of the music's telling. * New York Times Book Review *
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Vintage Publishing The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
Book SynopsisThe epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel''s Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies.Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation...''An extraordinary feat of imagination... a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity'' Time OutTrade ReviewA carnival of pain and pleasure, violence, tenderness, high jinks of every sexual sort, quaint customs and quainter jokes * Financial Times *An extraordinary feat of imagination... a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity * Time Out *Mr de Bernières writes superbly * Catholic Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Seduce Me at Sunrise The Hathaways Book 2
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mine Till Midnight comes a dazzling novel about forbidden love and long-denied desire - the kind of passion that happens once in a lifetime . . . perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. ''Lisa Kleypas is the best'' Sarah MacLean He has tried hard to forget her . . .Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation . . . and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate.Can she remember the man he once was? Then, Win returns to England . . . only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all cosTrade Review'A truly talented storyteller' Publishers Weekly 'A dream' Romantic Times
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Little, Brown Book Group Simply Perfect Simply Series Number 4 in series
Book SynopsisTall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, Joseph Fawcitt is the epitome of male perfection. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband. As headmistress of Miss Martin''s School for Girls, she long ago resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood - until now.Irresistibly attracted to Claudia, Joseph embarks on an outrageous plan of seduction. But as heir to a prestigious dukedom, the Marquess of Attingsborough is expected to carry on his family''s legacy, not dishonour it. Yet Joseph is determined to make Claudia his at any cost. Even if that means breaking every rule for a love that is simply perfect...
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Little, Brown Book Group Tempt Me at Twilight The Perfect Moonlit Love
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas comes a stunning novel about two opposites in every way - except when it comes to desire . . . perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. ''Lisa Kleypas is the best'' Sarah MacLean He was everything she''d sworn to avoid . . .Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal - only to find that her new husband offers his passion, but not his trust.And she was everything he needed . . .Harry was willing to do anything to win Poppy - except open his heart. All his life, he''s held the world at arm''s length . . . but the sharp, beguiling Poppy demands to b
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Little, Brown Book Group Mine Till Midnight The Hathaways
Book SynopsisA woman of modest means meets a society man skilled in the art of seduction in this captivating novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas, the first title in the beloved regency romance series The Hathaways - perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. ''Lisa Kleypas is the best'' Sarah MacLean Their lives defy convention . . .When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan.Their desire consumes them both . . .Wealthy beyond most men''s dreams, Cam has tired of society''s petty restrictions and longs to return to his ''uncivilized'' Gypsy roots. When the delectable Ameli
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Little, Brown Book Group The Devil in Winter The Wallflowers
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas comes the next title in the beloved romance series The Wallflowers - perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. ''Kleypas can make you laugh and cry - on the same page'' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series''Scorching sexual tension, hysterical banter, and a reformed rake that could melt even the hardest of hearts'' FrolicThe Wallflowers: four young ladies enter London society and band together to each find a husband. Has the third ''Wallflower'' now met her match?''I''m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can''t be celibate. Everyone knows that.''Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London.A marriage of convenience is the only solution.No oneTrade ReviewA few years ago I picked up my first Lisa Kleypas novel and have since devoured almost everything she's written. I could re-read this one over and over again -- Samantha YoungScorching sexual tension, hysterical banter, and a reformed rake that could melt even the hardest of hearts * Frolic *
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