Posts Tagged ‘british’
Me Before You
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer’s acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.
Read MoreLasting Damage
It’s 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it’s for sale; she saw the estate agent’s board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the ‘Virtual Tour’ button,…
Read MoreEmma
Jane Austen’s sparkling and flawless comic masterpiece is the story of Emma Woodhouse: rich, charming, spoilt, obsessed with matchmaking and blind to everyone’s faults – including her own. Although Austen described Emma as a character ‘whom no one but myself will much like’, her wit and her gradual self-realization make her one of the author’s…
Read MorePersuasion
The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen ‘Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect’ Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of…
Read MorePride and Prejudice
With its sparkling wit, clever heroine and moving love story, Pride and Prejudice is an immaculate comedy of manners, and Jane Austen’s most popular novel. Lizzy Bennet finds eligible bachelor Darcy arrogant the first time she meets him, and when she hears he has been meddling in her family’s affairs is determined to dislike him…
Read MoreCometh the Hour
Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with…
Read MoreMightier than the Sword
With more than 2 million copies in print, the Clifton Chronicles has taken #1 worldwide bestselling author Jeffrey Archer to a whole new level. And the saga continues. . . Bestselling novelist Harry Clifton’s on a mission to free a fellow author who’s imprisoned in Siberia-even if doing so puts Harry’s own life, and life’s…
Read MoreThe Sins of the Father
A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harry’s own.
Read MoreOnly Time Will Tell
Bristol dock worker Harry Clifton’s unexpected scholarship leads him to pursue a very different life while uncovering the truth about his father’s identity.
Read MorePoldark 2 Demelza
A reissue of the second book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC seriesDemelza Carne, the impoverished miner’s daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love.Demelza’s efforts to adapt to the ways of…
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