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A View Of The Harbour (Virago)
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In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high.
Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates in her novels, oblivious to the relationship developing next door. Their daughter Prudence is aware, however, and is appalled by the treachery she observes. Mrs Bracey, an invalid whose grasp on life is slipping, forever peers from her window, constantly prodding her daughters for news of the outside world. And Lily Wilson, a lonely young widow, is frightened of her own home. Into their lives steps Bertram, a retired naval officer with the unfortunate capacity to inflict lasting damage while trying to do good.
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The Land Of Spices (Virago)
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Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has, for some time, been experiencing grave doubts about her vocation. But when she meets Anna Murphy, the youngest-ever boarder, the little girl's solemn, poetic nature captivates her and she feels 'a storm break in her hollow heart'. Between them an unspoken allegiance is formed that will sustain each through the years as the Reverend Mother seeks to combat her growing spiritual aridity and as Anna develops the strength to resist the conventional demands of her background.
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The Return Of The Soldier (Virago)
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The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.
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Invitation to the Waltz (Virago)
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A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia
Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.
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Death Comes For The Archbishop (Virago)
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Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly forty years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever…
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The Professor's House (Virago)
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A rich and suggestive work which contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite student, the brilliant explorer and inventor Tom Outland
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, he surveys his life and the people he has loved: his wife Lillian, his daughters and, above all, Tom Outland, his most outstanding student and once, his son-in-law to be. Enigmatic and courageous - and a tragic victim of the Great War - Tom has remained a source of inspiration to the professor. But he has also left behind him a troubling legacy which has brought betrayal and fracture to the women he loves most…
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A Wreath Of Roses (Virago)
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Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary, and perhaps to spite of her friends, Camilla steps into an unlikely liaison with Richard Elton, a handsome, assured - and dangerous - liar.
Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel is a skillful exploration of the danger we'll go to to avoid loneliness. Taylor is increasingly recognised as one of the best writers of the twentieth century, and this little-known novel displays her range admirably.
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The Vet's Daughter (Virago)
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Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering; his new girlfriend brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in memories and fantasies, in her rapturous longing for Nicholas, a handsome young sailor, and in the blossoming of what she perceives as her occult powers. A series of strange events unfolds that leads her, dressed in bridal white, to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common. The Vet's Daughter is a uniquely vivid, witty and touching story of love and mystery.
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Rule Britannia (Virago)
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In this prescient novel, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of leaving Europe for a political, economic and military alliance with the United States.
'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy . . . '
Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour.
England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.
As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly& ...
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Sisters By A River (Virago)
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On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts split the summer air, the milk sours in the larder and their father takes out his gun. Tragedy strikes the family, and before long the furniture is being auctioned off and the sisters dispersed among relatives. In her daring first novel, originally published in 1947, Barbara Comyns' unique young heroine relates the vivid, funny and bittersweet story of a childhood.
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Mrs Miniver (Virago)
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Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in
The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday events of a middle-class Chelsea family: Mrs Miniver's thrill at the sight of October chrysanthemums; her sense of doom when the faithful but rackety car is replaced; the escapades of Vin, Toby and Judy, her unpredictable young children; visits to the Kent cottage and, as war becomes a reality, the strange experience of acquiring gas masks and the cameraderie of those unsettling early days.
Mrs Miniver enchanted the public with her sympathy and affectionate humour, capturing ordinary lives and values now darkened by war. First published in book form in 1939 and later an enormously successful film, Mrs Miniver became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic -- with Churchill exclaiming that it had done more for the Allied cause than a flotilla of battleships.
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The Dud Avocado (Virago)
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Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?
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Several Perceptions (Virago)
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Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans.
In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which motivates his contemporaries, Joseph frees a badger from the local zoo; sends a turd airmail to the President of the United States; falls in love with the mother of his best friend; and, accompanied by the strains of an old man's violin, celebrates Christmas Eve in a bewildering state of sexual discovery. But has he found the Meaning of Life.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (BBC books)
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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic novel, with an introduction by Sherlock writer Steve Thompson, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures.
The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, which was first published in 1894, includes the infamous 'The Final Problem'. It is one of Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock tales and the detective's deadliest challenge. This is the ultimate thriller, in which Sherlock meets his intellectual match: the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Moriarty pushes Sherlock to his intellectual limits, this game of cat and mouse will test not onl ...
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The Wrecker (Т8)
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Wrecker" is an episodic adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island, mixing comedy with a detective mystery.
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The Convenient Marriage (Arrow Books)
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Horry Winwood doesn’t play by the rules.
So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place.
As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy.
Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting.
But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick.
Will Horry’s gamble cost her everything she holds most dear?
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Исповедь маркизы. В 2-х томах (Вече)
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В очередной том иллюстрированного собрания сочинений Александра Дюма входит первая часть роман "Исповедь маркизы". Это история удивительной женщины XVIII века Мари де Шамрон, маркизы Дюдеффан. Жизнь ее была полна изящных поворотов и замысловатых извилин, легко и воздушно она приятельствовала с вольнодумцами и философами, играла в кошки-мышки с придворными авантюристами и сильными мира сего. Решив на старости лет рассказать всю правду о своем времени, она начинает диктовать скандальные мемуары, в которых искренне и довольно бесцеремонно раскрывает многие тайны эпохи Регентства и Людовика XV, рассказывает о своем знакомстве с Вольтером и Бомарше, Дидро и Руссо, о славных и бесславных прототипах героев их бессмертных произведений, в числе которых оказалась, конечно, и она сама.
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Исповедь маркизы. В 2-х томах (Вече)
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В очередной том иллюстрированного собрания сочинений Александра Дюма входит вторая (заключительная) часть романа "Исповедь маркизы".
Это история удивительной женщины XVIII века Мари де Шамрон, маркизы дю Деффан. Жизнь ее была полна изящных поворотов и замысловатых извилин, легко и воздушно она приятельствовала с вольнодумцами и философами, играла в кошки-мышки с придворными авантюристами и сильными мира сего. Решив на старости лет рассказать всю правду о своем времени, она начинает диктовать скандальные мемуары, в которых искренне и довольно бесцеремонно раскрывает многие тайны эпохи Регентства и Людовика XV, рассказывает о своем знакомстве с Вольтером и Бомарше, Дидро и Руссо, о славных и бесславных прототипах героев их бессмертных произведений, в числе которых оказалась, конечно, и она сама.
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Воспоминания фаворитки. В 2 томах. Том 2 (Вече)
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В очередной том иллюстрированного собрания сочинений Александра Дюма входит вторая (заключительная) часть романа "Воспоминания фаворитки", охватывающего огромную панораму событий из эпохи потрясений и крушений Старого порядка в Европе. Эта книга - вполне самостоятельное произведение и одновременно дополнение к саге о Луизе Сан-Феличе. На страницах этого большого романа читатели встретят некоторых старых знакомых, вершителей большой истории, - простоватого короля Фердинанда Носатого и его бойкую супругу Каролину, хитроумного кардинала Руффо, грозного адмирала Нельсона, роковую красавицу леди Гамильтон и многих, многих других.
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Воспоминания фаворитки. В 2 томах. Том 1 (Вече)
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Заснеженным январским вечером 1815 года в маленькую хижину на берегу Ла-Манша вошел священник. Его призвала к своей постели некая англичанка, боящаяся умереть от отчаяния. Она готова покаяться и рассказать все о себе, своих грехах, пороках и даже преступлениях. Эта таинственная женщина была некогда обольстительной красавицей, чье появление в Италии произвело форменный переполох, смуту, почти революцию среди художников и аристократов, адмиралов и кардиналов.
В очередной том иллюстрированного собрания сочинений Александра Дюма входит первая часть романа "Воспоминания фаворитки", охватывающего огромную панораму событий из эпохи потрясений и крушений Старого порядка в Европе. Эта книга - вполне самостоятельное произведение и одновременно дополнение к саге о Луизе Сан-Феличе.
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