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Andrew Davie
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R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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The third installment of a bewitching series brimming with charm
and charisma that will make fans of Outlander rejoice! (Woman's
World Magazine). New York Times bestselling author Paula
Brackston's second novel in the Found Things series, Secrets of the
Chocolate House, was called a time-swapping romance [that] will
please fans of Alice Hoffman (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston
returns to the Found Things series with a third book, The Garden of
Promises and Lies. As the bustle of the winter holidays in the
Little Shop of Found Things gives way to spring, Xanthe is left to
reflect on the strange events of the past year. While she's tried
to keep her time-traveling talents a secret from those close to
her, she is forced to take responsibility for having inadvertently
transported the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time. Xanthe
comes to see that she must use her skills as a Spinner if she and
Flora are ever to be safe, and turns to the Spinners book for help.
It is then that a beautiful antique wedding dress sings to her.
Realizing the dress and her adversary are connected in some way,
she answers the call. She finds herself in Bradford-on-Avon in
1815, as if she has stepped into a Jane Austen story. Now in
Xanthe's time, Fairfax is threatening Xanthe into helping him with
his evil doings, and demonstrates all too clearly how much damage
he is capable of causing. With Fairfax growing ever more powerful,
Xanthe enlists the help of her boyfriend Liam, taking him back in
time with her. It is a decision that might just ensure she prevails
over her foe, but only by putting her life--and his--on the line.
When his kindly master dies, a ten-year-old orphan living in seventeenth-century England joins a group of Separatists and follows them to Holland and on to America, where their quest for religious freedom becomes a struggle to survive.
Fra Filippo Lippi is notorious for his contempt of his vows; he was
never obedient and never chaste. The nun who modelled for his
pictures of the Virgin Mary became the mother of his children. Yet
this apparently 'bad' man painted divine pictures; moreover, he was
the favourite painter of that very astute patron, Cosimo de'
Medici.
The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror & The Light.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him.
Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Tiara
(Hardcover)
John Reinhard Dizon
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R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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