An English Affair

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1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the...

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'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical U...

"My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I tore through The...

A revelatory and often chilling examination of an English icon, and his controversial Soviet double life. Arthur Ransome was the J.K. Rowling of hi...

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The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert...

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Do you love Cornwall, with its cliffs and breakers, sleepy fishing harbours and villages? Would you like to meet a real English Lord? And do you en...

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Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college, when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, 'Sandel' tells the story of a love affair be...

A curiously dated child's suitcase arrives, unannounced and unexplained, in a modern-day Washington suburb. A week later, American genealogist Jeff...

In his first novel to appear in English, one of Iran s most acclaimed writers shows what it s like to live and love there today. In a country where...

DescriptionLust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young love...

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From a thrilling new talent, Lisa Taddeo, Three Women is a mesmerizing work of narrative journalism--reported over eight years--about the sex lives...

Reducere. This is an English translation of "The Private Life of the Romanoffs", originally published in German and written by Bernhard Stern. Within this vo...

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'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.' Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a...

DescriptionArnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile...

A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She ima...

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W. Somerset Maugham's masterwork is the coming-of-age story of Philip Carey, a sensitive young man consumed by an unrequited and self-destructive l...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...

Reducere. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and j...

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Reducere. Rhodes Scholar Kerry Donovan has never had anything handed to her on a silver platter. As she arrives at Oxford to begin her course of study, she i...

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Lucien Herr was the director of the library of the Ecole Normale Sup rieure, the leading academic institution of France, from 1888 to 1926. In addi...

Reducere. A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes...

From a bestselling author in Mexico comes her English-language debut--an enthralling historical novel about the tragic reign of Empress Carlota of ...

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DescriptionWild Fire is the much-anticipated final entry in Ann Cleeves's beloved Shetland series, which is now a hit television show starring Doug...

In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, viole...

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Reducere. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been hailed as one of the most popular romantic novels in English literature. From tangled love affairs and h...

Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she bec...

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A disastrous office affair has left Channing Hughes unemployed and (very bloody) cynical. What better time to leave Boston for her native England, ...

Reducere. "Some men are born lucky, others are called Didius Falco."It's the first century CE in Rome and informer and occasional imperial agent Marcus Didiu...

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Love's Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book ...

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