The French Wife

Based on a true incident which occurred during the French Revolution, Fidelio is Beethoven's only opera. Depicting the rescue of a political prison...

The French wife and muse of Charles I was central to the narrative of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration. Henrietta Maria was an exce...

Reducere. The France Alphabet is a wry, informative handbook for the discerning international traveller on how to handle the French. It offers essential A-Z ...

A new edition of the third book in the series featuring psychotherapist Frieda Klein, part of a major brand relaunch for husband and wife team Nicc...

Vivian French tells this well-known, much loved traditional tale of Aladdin, the magical genies and Aladdin's wishes. Will he find happiness with h...

Set in 1950s French Indochina, this is a tale of a half-French, half-Vietnamese woman torn between two worlds. The Tea Planter's Wife, by the same ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Lauren Yee's whimsical and poignant new play The Hatmaker's Wife, a young woman moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss,...

Now in paperback, this is the 5th book in the crime series featuring psychotherapist sleuth Frieda Klein, from the bestselling husband and wife tea...

In the seemingly quiet town of Bere Knighton there is never a dull moment for Dr Richard Forth. Not only does he have a hectic work schedule and an...

Reducere. ABSENCE ISN'T A HOLE. IT'S A PRESENCE LIVING INSIDE YOU, EATING ITS WAY OUT.Occupied France, 1943. Returning home from the daily hunt for the ratio...

Reducere. Absence isn't a hole. It's a presence living inside you, eating its way out.Occupied France, 1943. Returning home from the daily hunt for the ratio...

Reducere. Leonard Vole stands in the dock, accused of murder. His wife can prove his innocence but when she takes the stand she denies his alibi. Can he esca...

Reducere. Drama / Characters: 3 male, 2 femaleScenery: interiorUnusually powerful and effective, and gives fine roles for two good actresses. The wife of a s...

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashi...

A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a l...

Reducere. An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a p...

As the St Clair family prepare for the grand wedding of their daughter, Clarice, trouble is brewing in the shape of an old friendship, a dangerous ...

As the St Clair family prepare for the grand wedding of their daughter, Clarice, trouble is brewing in the shape of an old friendship, a dangerous ...

Reducere. Nobody's Boy is a French novel by Hector Malot, published for the first time in 1878. The story is set in the nineteenth century. An abandoned chil...

"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat" or "Ball of Lard") is a famous short story by the late-19th centur...

Reducere. Everybody loves french fries!In the second book of the continuing children's book series featuring Freddie the Frog, Freddie is tired of eating fli...

Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio...

Reducere. In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which The Wall Street Journal hailed as "funny and soulful...immediately appealing, " a failed ...

Reducere. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the histo...

American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beau...

Reducere. Winner of ForeWord Review's 2014 Indie Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction.Drawn into the savage clashes of the French and Indian ...

Reducere. Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to produce an all-f...

Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caut...

DescriptionIn the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the mo...

Reducere. Farce / 5m, 5f / Int. At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only ...

Reducere. Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of ...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

A concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. So the impresario's diminutive assistant blacks u...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced ...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable BookFlora Trist n, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys...

Reducere. In his early years, Gabe Raphel, a third-generation French perfumer, was young, arrogant, and only cared about making money and having fun. The fut...

Reducere. Orville is trying to get on with his life after his wife was killed in a car accident. His father is mostly taking care of his still unnamed infant...

Reducere. Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house nex...

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost ...

Just before Christmas, 1996, a beautiful French woman - the wife of a movie mogul - was brutally murdered outside of her holiday home in a remote r...

Reducere. Just before Christmas, 1996, a beautiful French woman - the wife of a movie mogul - was brutally murdered outside of her holiday home in a remote r...

Reducere. Drama / 9m, 2f / Int. From the author of I Never Sang for My Father, this groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's coming of age amid ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn all-American love story about two very new Americans. It's 1975. Saigon has fallen. He lost his wife. She lost her fianc . But now in...

Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of ge...

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same charac...

Reducere. Fran oise d'Aubign , marquise de Maintenon, was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden...

Reducere. Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and now, this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner, is desperate to reconnect with his es...

Reducere. Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes p...

Reducere. Drama / Characters: 4 males, 3 females Scenery: 3 interiorsThe TV series was based on this play. A brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress hatch a ...

FarceCharacters: 4 male, 6 femaleInterior SetArtie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's just after Labor Day, and Martha's Vineyard has started emptying out, but you can still smell the suntan lotion (the expensive kind...

Reducere. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5, 000 years), who bear more than a casual ...

DescriptionA novel for fans of Philippa Gregory and Michelle Moran, Confessions of Marie Antoinette blends rich historical detail with searing dram...

Reducere. DescriptionLand of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young liberation ...

Reducere. Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Seb...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. H...

Reducere. The book deals with the importance of accepting Christ as Lord and practical implications of this commitment.About author(s): Tommy Shipp is a grad...

Reducere. Sun, croissants and fine wine. Nothing can spoil the perfect holiday. Or can it? When Emmy Jamieson arrives at La Cour des Roses, a beautiful guest...

Reducere. Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any lan...

Reducere. The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.-Lindsey Fitz...

Reducere. Revere life, and give yours away for the sake of servingothers.As ayoung man, Albert Schweitzer seemed destined for greatness. His immense talentan...

Reducere. Judah Benjamin, the rebellion's Mephistopheles, Attorney General, Secretary of War and State and spymaster of the C.S.A., created a Mona Lisa in th...

Reducere. What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English count...

Reducere. Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchma...

Characters: 2 maleA dark duologue filled with sharp storytelling and biting repartee, A Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond ta...

Reducere. DescriptionA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a J...

Reducere. Drama Harold Pinter Characters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set In a small house at a coastal resort live a man, his mentally wayward wife and their ...

This book explores the history behind how woman's clothing were manufactured and worn between the French Revolution and World War I. Including full...