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Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with • Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her • Isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, still plays a part • Will she be able to forge a happy new life in this new world?

Захватывающая семейная сага, пронзительная история о беспримерной любви длиною в жизнь – роман Колин Маккалоу по праву получил всемирное признание, а блестящая экранизация 1983 года принесла ему еще большую популярность • В этой книге есть все – экзотическая обстановка, неожиданные повороты сюжета, исключительная эмоциональность, тонкие и убедительные психологические портреты. Но прежде всего это подлинный гимн великой любви, во всех ее проявлениях: любви к родной земле, любви к детям и родителям, любви к Богу… и вечной любви мужчины и женщины • Любовный роман, поднятый на уровень настоящей литературы. Трогательная история взаимоотношений влюбленных, завораживающая читателя своей искренностью, чистотой и глубиной…

Австралия, первая треть двадцатого века. Страна еще благоденствует, еще живет ритмами джаза и танго, хотя вот-вот «тучные годы» сменятся черной полосой кризиса. Однако каким бы ни было время, никакие испытания не в силах погасить волю к жизни четырех дочерей пастора Латимера и их готовность рискнуть всем ради права воплотить в жизнь свои мечты. Блестящая карьера и светский успех, страстная любовь и радость материнства. У них будет все. Как будут и трагические потери, и жестокие разочарования, и крутые повороты судьбы, когда все придется начинать с самого начала… Четыре сестры. Четыре истории жизни… Колин Маккалоу вновь дарит читателям целый мир, в котором каждый найдет что-то необыкновенно важное лично для себя

Захватывающая семейная сага, пронзительная история о беспримерной любви длиною в жизнь – роман Колин Маккалоу по праву получил всемирное признание, а блестящая экранизация 1983 года принесла ему еще большую популярность • В этой книге есть все – экзотическая обстановка, неожиданные повороты сюжета, исключительная эмоциональность, тонкие и убедительные психологические портреты. Но прежде всего это подлинный гимн великой любви, во всех ее проявлениях: любви к родной земле, любви к детям и родителям, любви к Богу… и вечной любви мужчины и женщины • Любовный роман, поднятый на уровень настоящей литературы. Трогательная история взаимоотношений влюбленных, завораживающая читателя своей искренностью, чистотой и глубиной…

Захватывающая семейная сага, пронзительная история о беспримерной любви длиною в жизнь – роман Колин Маккалоу по праву получил всемирное признание, а блестящая экранизация 1983 года принесла ему еще большую популярность. В этой книге есть все – экзотическая обстановка, неожиданные повороты сюжета, исключительная эмоциональность, тонкие и убедительные психологические портреты. Но прежде всего это подлинный гимн великой любви, во всех ее проявлениях: любви к родной земле, любви к детям и родителям, любви к Богу… и вечной любви мужчины и женщины

The sixth book in Jean Plaidy's marvellous Plantaganet series • Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match • Good fortune and wily cunning bring her Henry of England. A good and generous husband but a weak king, he rules a nation that still remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John. As Henry showers gifts on his new bride his extravagance forces him to levy ever greater taxation on the land, and the spectre of revolt soon looms against him. For Simon de Montfort, the adventurer who will give England its first true parliament, the house of destiny is at hand

'During my life and career I have been given all sorts of advice and learned huge amounts from some great and enormously talented people. I've been blessed to play characters such as Derek Trotter, Granville, Pop Larkin and Frost, who have changed my life in all sorts of ways, and taught me lessons that go far beyond the television set. And I've worked a few things out for myself as well, about friendship, ambition, rejection, success, failure, adversity and fortune • With any luck, some of these thoughts and observations will chime with episodes and challenges you have faced, or are facing, in your own life. And if they don't. . . well, hopefully, at the very least you'll get to have a good old laugh at my expense • So lean back, pour yourself a glass, and try not to fall through the bar flap

When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her • Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship. Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her long struggle for fame and fortune begins. But even when she reaches the top she finds that the scars of the past can open up to ruin her • Steeped in atmosphere and raw emotion, Georgia is the story of a determination to succeed against all the odds and of a burning first love

London, 1874 • When Lucetta Froy awakes in a hospital bed, she remembers nothing of the events that brought her to her present state • She is taken home by two rough-speaking individuals who claim to be her brothers. However, as her health improves and her memory returns, she realises she has been kidnapped • The men hope to claim Lucetta's fortune as a ransom, for she is the daughter of a prosperous importer whose ship went down at sea. Her parents tragically drowned, but Lucetta survived • Abandoned and destitute, it seems as though the world is against her. But Lucetta's spirit will never be broken, and so she sets out to reclaim what is rightfully hers

It’s the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital… • Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career • Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark secret with the potential to destroy Ruby's marriage • Millie is anxious about her fiance, sent to Spain to cover the Civil War, and things only get worse when she encounters a fortune teller who gives her a sinister warning • With war looming in Europe, and the East End of London squaring up to the threat of Oswald Mosley's blackshirts, the women of the Nightingale have to face their own challenges, at work and in love • From the author of The Nightingale Girls and The Nightingale Sisters, this is the perfect read for fans of Call the Midwife

Things are going well for Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's investigator: he hates sharing a cell with a rodent, although being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarrassing; his highborn girlfriend can't decide if she wants him and Titus Caesar's reward for past services is disappointing to say the least • Hoping for a better life, or at least a better apartment, he takes on new clients • On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three freedmen with two flashy wives are under siege by a clever redhead. Severina Zotica has a foul-mouthed parrot, an odd connection with a snake dancer - and a very suspicious past • As he pursues this flame-haired fortune-hunter, Falco finds himself beset by violent rent-racketeers, poisoners, and women without consciences who have dangerous designs on him

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! • Abigail Wendover has no time for love • She is far too busy protecting her niece, who has fallen madly in love with a suspected fortune-hunter • But her efforts become vastly more complicated with the arrival of Miles Calverleigh, the black sheep of his family - a reckless bachelor with a scandalous past • Abby soon discovers that, despite successfully managing her niece's love life, she has far less control over her own unruly heart