Historical Literary Fiction Saga

In the chaos aboard the sinking Titanic, Mair Parsons is separated from her infant daughter, Catherine, and her travelling companion and future mother-in-law, Ethel Jenkins. The disaster changes all their lives. During her repatriation to Britain, Mair has time to reassess her life and knows that before she can find happiness she must find the truth about her absent mother, even if it means leaving her beloved Wales and Catherine behind.

Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need - except her parents' love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family's manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan's dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee's world is one of poverty and desperation.

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself. Telemachus' father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born...and never came back. Aged 16, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father's house overrun with men pursuing his beautiful mother, Penelope, and devouring the family's wealth. Telemachus determines to leave Ithaca, his island home, and find the truth.

Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck. Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.

Inspired by true events, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman faced with unimaginable circumstances that force her to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Hiroshima, Osaka, and the badlands of eastern Montana and spanning the start of World War II to 1982, this breathtaking novel is told primarily in the voice of Noriko, a feisty aspiring actress who fails her audition to enter the Takarazuka Theater Academy.

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late 19th century. Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business - and an eye for beautiful young women.

Sweden, 1732. Strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it's a man's world. She believes she's being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather and she's determined to stop it. When help appears in the unlikely form of handsome Scotsman Killian Kinross, Jess finds herself both intrigued and infuriated by him. In an attempt to recover her fortune, she proposes a marriage of convenience.

Unfolding on the vast grasslands of the steppes of Kazakhstan before its independence from the USSR, this haunting novel limns the struggles of the world through the eyes of Nasyr, a simple fisherman and village elder, and his resolute son, Kakharman. Both father and son confront the terrible future that is coming to the poisoned Aral Sea.

När Hertigen av Marazion blir strandad på ett ödsligt pensionat kunde han aldrig ana vad som skulle vänta honom. När en knackning på dörren stör hans lugn blir han förvånad över att hitta en ung flicka utanför hans rum. Hon heter Illitta och har rymt hemifrån, och hertigen tar genast på sig rollen som hennes beskyddare. Och Ilitta överaskar honom, en vänskap växer sakta fram och han introducerar henne för den glittrande societeten i London. Och snart har de båda mer än vänskap i tankarna.

"Markis av Buckwood" - för den titeln hade Magnolia förrått Warren, och det var det förräderiet som skickade Warren till Afrika för att glömma kvinnan som satt hans känslor i gungning. Men nu när ödet gett Warren samma titel, skulle Magnolia inte låta någonting stå i vägen för att göra honom till sin egen. Då sände ödet honom Nadia, och Warren tänkte ut ett listigt skådespel för att skydda sitt hjärta. Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer.

Nr den skotske lord Alistair vljer att gifta sig med en engelsk kvinna mot sin fars vilja blir han utesluten ur sin klan. Nr han och hans hustru dr tillfaller det Pepita att ta hand om sin systers barn, men utan ngra medel att frsrja barnen tvingas hon snart ska upp deras skotska familj. Barnens farfar tar motvilligt emot dem och lter dem stanna p slottet ett tag. Det r dr Pepita trffar Torquil, Alistairs kusin och den enda som visar gsterna ngon vnlighet.

Young Dorothy is trapped in a life of poverty and heartache. Abandoned by a mother who never loved her, she is forced to live with grandparents who care even less for her than they do for their own bratty children. Dorothy must persevere and hold on to the distant memory of her loving father with only a tin of letters and a small toy soldier to remind her of her former life of wealth and privilege. Just when Dorothy thinks life has nothing left to offer, a letter arrives, inviting her to visit her father in London. Will this be the opportunity Dorothy has been waiting for?

Il marchese di Troon è irrequieto da quando è tornato dal continente, dove aveva preso servizio come soldato. Niente ormai soddisfa la sua brama di brivido e azione, neanche il gioco d'azzardo e le rischiose corse clandestine a cui ha iniziato a partecipare. Come se non bastasse, adesso deve proteggere il patrimonio di famiglia dalle mire del fratello minore, e ciò significa procurarsi un matrimonio e un erede nel minor tempo possibile.

Spanning 2,000 years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and the power of love to sustain and challenge faith.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband. So say the friends and family of impoverished widow Octavia Darcy when she unexpectedly inherits a fortune, but she has a different view and looks forward to a new life of independence.

Lady Roysdon är sin make trogen, trots att han är gammal och legat i koma i flera år. Trots att hon egentligen inte ville gifta sig med honom. Ryktet om hennes skönhet lockar många friare men hon avvisar dem alla. En dag när hon är på en tur i sin droska blir hon överfallen av en stilig stråtrövare. Han stjäl hennes smycken, men lämnar henne med en kyss som hon sent kommer glömma. När Lady Roysdons väninna hamnar i knipa får hon en briljant idé.

Kelda arbetar som tjänsteflicka på Madame Gladwins skola för unga flickor. Hon får inte ut någon lön för arbetet hon utför och föreståndarinnan påminner henne jämt och ständigt om att hon bara är ett barnhemsbarn som aldrig kommer att kunna lämna skolan. Tillvaron är grå och trist, fram tills den dag då en av skolans elever får ett brev från en avlägsen onkel i Afrika. Onkeln kräver att flickan skall komma och bo hos honom och det bestäms att Kelda ska följa med flickan för att se till att hon tryggt når sin destination.

Med sitt eleganta yttre och respektingivande manér väcker markisen av Osminton beundran hos både kvinnor och män. Han är dock självutnämnd som en av Londons mest cyniska män, och trots sina många dambekanta har ingen av de unga kvinnorna lyckats tränga igenom hans sköld. Men när han möter Alexia Minton, en avlägsen släkting som vill introducera sin syster till societetslivet, är det någonting som veknar inom honom.

Theola farebbe di tutto per lasciare l'Inghilterra, ma la fuga si sta rivelando più torbida e pericolosa della prigione da cui è scappata. Per tutta la sua vita non è stata altro che una Cenerentola tirata a lucido, la povera cuginetta al servizio della bella ed elegante Lady Catherine Bourne. Ora Lady Catherine ha lasciato l'Inghilterra per sposare il re di Kavonia, dall'altra parte dell'Adriatico: Theola è stata incaricata di accompagnarla in quanto sua servitrice, un'opportunità in cui intravede finalmente una via di uscita dalla sua sfortunata situazione.

1912-1914 - Une riche veuve, comtesse du prestigieux domaine de Longfield Park. Un chef de la pègre londonienne. Une frêle jeune fille qui tente de survivre à la violence de son mari. Une lady éprise de liberté et bien décidée à faire progresser la cause suffragiste. Des personnages qui n'étaient pas destinés à se rencontrer vont se croiser à la faveur des événements, de ce bouillonnant début de xxe siècle. Des destins qui se croisent, s'entremêlent, ballottés au gré des bouleversements de la grande histoire.