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Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw |
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the… |
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The scandal of the season
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Sophie Gee |
This is a novel about risk and dangerous liaisons in a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears, when marriage was a market and sex a temptation fraught with danger. It is a witty, modern love story -… |
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The elephant keeper
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Christopher Nicholson |
"I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth."England, 1766: After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor qu… |
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Sinful Surrender
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Beverley Kendall |
Millicent "Missy" Armstrong is entering her third London Season, but not for lack of suitors. Since her debut three years ago, Missy has received twenty marriage proposals. But she is interested in o… |
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The Briton
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Catherine Palmer |
Lady Bronwen, proud inheritor of the ancient ways of the Britons, had lost all she held dear. She had been widowed in war, then robbed of the ancestral home that was her birthright. And now her last … |
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Only Time Will Tell
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Jeffrey Archer |
"From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life be… |
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Hold on to your dreams
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Beryl Matthews |
London 1899. Twenty-year-old Gertrude Melrose considers her good fortune as she prepares to usher in a new century. Her only concern is her brother Edward whose mounting gambling debts threaten the f… |
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I Say No Or, The Love-Letter Answered And Other Stories
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Wilkie Collins |
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still. |
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Distant horizons
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Rowena Summers |
It is the early days of the phoney war and Alice Chase is awaiting the impending birth of a fifth child. With the arrival of two young evacuees in her sister-in-law's household it seems that the war … |
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The Daisy Club
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Charlotte Bingham |
Twistleton is a village untouched by time, taking its rhythms from the countryside around. Daisy, Jean, Freddie and their friends Aurelia and Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks o… |
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Consequences
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Penelope Lively |
Destinies can change in an instant.In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in Lond… |
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Edge of the Fall, The
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Kate Williams |
In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives. Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second … |
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Number 11, or, Tales that witness madness
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Jonathan Coe |
This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy a… |
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Room of Lost Things
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Stella Duffy |
"Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point … |
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Ruined
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Ann Barker |
"Although Jessie Warburton has been hopelessly in love with the rakish Earl of Ashbourne for years, she finally grows tired of being ignored. She accepts the proposal of the Reverend Henry Lusty, and… |
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Long shadows
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Rowena Summers |
A poignant family drama from this popular author - Alice Chase has lived happily with Walter and their four children in Somerset for twenty years. But the past can throw long shadows, and Alice has n… |
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The flight of the swallows
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Audrey Howard |
Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte's father is a cruel ma… |
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Colonel Brandon's diary
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Amanda Grange |
A vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange’s sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen’s best-loved novels.At the age of eighteen, James Brandon’s world is shattered when the g… |
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The Lady's Tutor
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Robin Schone |
Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a ma… |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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E. M. Forster |
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with … |
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