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A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The
ultimate failure.... In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of
Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of
companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His
name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today as Bonnie Prince
Charlie. He had come to the country to take the throne. Now he is
leaving in exile and abject defeat. In prose that is by turns
poetic, comic, macabre, haunting and humane, multi- award-winning
author Alan Warner traces the frantic last journey through Scotland
of a man who history will come to define for his failure.
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May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple
fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for
them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar
discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin.
Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the
East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a
young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not
be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.
From the author of the no.1 international bestseller The Reader, The
Granddaughter is a gripping novel that transports us from the divided
Germany of the 1960s to contemporary Australia, asking what might be
found when it seems like all is lost.
'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Set
against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The
Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family,
tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a
sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise,
tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve
of World War One, when all is set to fall apart. Rich, epic and
profoundly moving, The Radetzky March is Joseph Roth's timeless
masterpiece.
A new standalone novel from the bestselling author Rosie
Clarke.East End of London Maggie Bailey has not had an easy
childhood. Her father, Michael, always too easy with his fists
after spending the family's rent money down the pub. Just sixteen,
in love and blinded by promises, Maggie sees marriage to handsome
Jack as her great escape. However, she soon finds herself abandoned
with a beautiful baby when Jack disappears. Maggie is forced to
seek a new life away from the East End of London and finds herself
a job at a hotel in Eastbourne. Here she must learn to fend for
herself and also accept a shocking discovery that she was fostered
as a babe and nothing is known of her real parents. Her employer,
Aunt Beth, is kind and her life improves - but Maggie makes one
mistake after another and, eventually, they lead to a terrible
tragedy that will bring her to the point of no return. Will Maggie
ever find true happiness and discover the secret of her birth?
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as ALL MY SINS
Godfrey Morgan of San Francisco, California will only consent to
marry after he is allowed to cruise around the world. His uncle,
William Holderkup, gives in to this demand, and he sends Godfrey
off with his instructor in deportment, Professor Tartlett. Together
they become the only survivors of a "shipwreck." Thus begins the
School for Crusoes.
(Also published as "Godfrey Morgan: A Californian
Mystery.")
She must face the terror of war alone to survive…1939 - India
When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought
was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her
father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance
with her two local best friends at a public party. Her father,
local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious. He arranges for
her to be exiled from India and married off to Australian Martin
McPherson, owner of a rubber plantation north of Singapore. Within
a year Singapore falls to the Japanese. Martin is killed and Nadine
becomes a prisoner of war, imprisoned in Sumatra, where her dancing
skills don’t go unnoticed by her captors. Amidst the horror she
finds a friend in a Japanese American major caught up in the war
whilst visiting his grandparents in Japan. Much like her, he
straddles two cultures and worlds. As their love deepens,
boundaries are crossed and together they must unite to survive.
Don't miss this emotional and powerful saga about a woman's
determination to beat the odds, perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies
and Fiona Valpy. Previously published as 'East of India' by Erica
Brown
In 1935, in sleepy Cannero on Lake Maggiore, Paola and her daughter
Eva - Little Spark - ply a discreet living embroidering for rich
tourists. Eva pines for the glamour of the Milan they abruptly
left. She dreams of escape - to Hollywood to become a make-up
artist, and from the inevitability of being married to a suitable
local boy. Instead she is obliged to help the padre; slathering
face paint on bodies from the lake. When an Englishman appears on
her slab a sole strange mourner lurks in the shadows. Eva turns for
help to her charismatic new acquaintance, the globetrotting Agatha
Christie-toting, puzzle-solving independent-spirited Amelia, and
finds herself launched on a perilous journey that begins with her
first trip across a lake she has hitherto feared and takes her into
the dark heart of Mussolini's brutal regime. Little Spark will find
that she is an extraordinary woman in extraordinary times.
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