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It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the clerk class,...

FORBIDDEN LESSONS IN A KABUL GUESTHOUSE is an inspirational memoir by Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan woman from a wealthy family who became an exile in America after the Russians invaded. She made a happy and successful life for herself in Virginia with...

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship...

Written by Frances Osborne, the bestselling author of The Bolter, Park Lane is set in Edwardian London and tells the story of housemaid Grace Campbell and Lady Beatrice - two young women of very different social standing who both dream of breaking...

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; and a recently planted maze, a memorial to the men of the...

Mary Gooch gazes out into the night, waiting for her husband to come home. He is late but he will - surely - be back soon. Tomorrow is special: the anniversary of the day when, barely out of high school, Mary and Gooch were married. As she waits,...

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, the clock in its stable yard...

Ritalin - był to lek podawany nadpobudliwym dzieciom. Jak mógł uzależniać Elizabeth Wurtzel - która bardzo dobrze zna depresję, Prozac, heroinę i kokainę - znalazła wyjście podczas pisania książki w swoim zaciszu na Florydzie. Opisała długą, krętą...

Gunther Schmidt obchodzi swoje 60 urodziny. Wodząc wzrokiem po osobach zgromadzonych na przyjęciu zatrymuje się na przykuwającej uwagę apetycznej Lindzie, dziewczynie syna burmistrza. Tylko to sprawia że czuje powiew młodości. Postanawia porzucić...

When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son, Milton...

Bohaterką powieści jest kobieta o imieniu Liv Kellerman. Autorka opisuje w jej drogę na szczyt i jej relacje z mężem i ojcem w świetle przemian w jej...

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a...

Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Their world extends as far as the big fence, erected to keep out the Terrs whom their father is off fighting. The two girls know little beyond that until the...

Nasers friends have all left town for cooler climes but he cant get away: hes an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash. A splash of colour arrives in Nasers world when, unexpectedly, a love note is dropped at his...

Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA s 1980 punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael...

1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks...

Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I cant refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability...

From the cooking methods of Ulysses to Victorian nursery fare, from Biblical food facts to modern food fads, Alice Thomas Ellis took delight in all things gastronomical, and generously seasoned her gallimaufry with anecdote and wit. Fish, Flesh and...