Historical Fiction
Miss Aldridge Regrets
17.00€
Published:28 Apr 2022 London, 1936Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just left her. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime:...
You have a friend in 10A
22.00€
Published:26 May 2022 In the title story, a famous child actress breaks away from a religious cult, as she tells - with brittle candour - her tale of childhood damage and the dark side of fame. Exuding both tenderness and bite, Shipstead exposes complicated truths in this dazzling collection sealing her reputation as an astonishingly versatile master of fiction.
Take My Hand
19.00€
Published:12 Apr 2022 Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a...
The Good Left Undone
17.00€
Published:14 Apr 2022 Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had a chance to begin. Then, on an idyllic French coastline in the shadow of war, Domenica's second great...
Violeta
18.00€
Published:25 Jan 2022 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the...
Think of Me
17.00€
Published:22 Feb 2022 Description A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be BraveWhen I open my eyes I see a small dark shape at the end of the pew under the window. A piece of cloth, a handkerchief perhaps? No, a woman's headscarf.The blue is bright, Mediterranean.I can't...
BOOTH
19.00€
Published:8 Mar 2022 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Open Book SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVERJunius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the...
Moon Witch, Spider King
19.00€
Published:3 Mar 2022 Description In this stunning follow-up to Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers... Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And,...
Black Cake
19.00€
Published:3 Feb 2022 Description THE INSTANT NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Juggling lives and crossing continents, BLACK CAKE is the extraordinary story of how the inheritance of secrets, betrayal and memories can shape a family for generations. My heart broke and was put back together. Bravo' NIKKI MAY, author of Wahala Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get...
