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В 2 магазинах по цене от 911 до 1523

The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks" success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by right. For generations...

В 3 магазинах по цене от 1365 до 1560

The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. The air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood? A manmade plague? Has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren...

В 4 магазинах по цене от 870 до 3990

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But...

В 1 магазине по цене 3418

Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family...

В 3 магазинах по цене от 1810 до 3128

Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark"s delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members are...

В 1 магазине по цене 909

London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among Petty Thieves - Fingersmiths under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her family. But from the moment she is born Sue"s fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

В 1 магазине по цене 615

I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died. In this book, Grace Foakes shares her memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child’s uncluttered eye, she describes the small details — shopping in the market, men waiting for...

В 1 магазине по цене 669

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В 3 магазинах по цене от 1505 до 2622

Fellow historical fiction fiends: you will be painfully aware that there"s some shocking stuff out there. Bad writing that screws with the facts and gives readers some very worrying ideas about historical figures. So thank goodness for Sarah Dunant. Blood and Beauty is Dunant"s tenth...

В 1 магазине по цене 1766

On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother"s dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of...