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Foremost and beloved historian Alison Weir is writing six stunning novels about the Six Queens of Henry VIII drawing on new research • Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen is the first in a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens. Alison takes you on an engrossing journey at Katherine's side and shows her extraordinary strength of character and intelligence. Ideal for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick • A Spanish princess. Raised to be modest, obedient and devout. Destined to be an English Queen • Six weeks from home across treacherous seas, everything is different: the language, the food, the weather. And for her there is no comfort in any of it. At sixteen years-old, Catalina is alone among strangers • She misses her mother

The stunning final novel in the highly acclaimed and bestselling Six Tudor Queens series by historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir • Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him • A Woman Torn Between Love and Duty • Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice • The ageing King's eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him... or betray that she wanted another • She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and a friend. Henry loves and trusts her. But Katharine is hiding another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see her burn • Katharine Parr

A stunning novel of courage, camaraderie and deadly enemies from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Centurion and The Emperor's Exile • AD 59. Britannia. Tension is simmering. Danger lies round every corner for Rome's brave soldiers • Fifteen years after Rome's invasion of Britannia, centurion Marco is back. The island is settled now, bustling with commerce. Macro's goal is to help run his mother's Londinium inn, and exploit his land grant. He's prepared for the dismal weather and the barbaric ways of the people. But far worse dangers threaten all his plans • A gang led by an ex-legionary rules the city, demanding protection money and terrorising those who won't pay up. The Roman official in charge has turned a blind eye. Macro has to act

Книга полностью на английском языке • A captivating new novel from the bestselling author of A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY and DAYS OF HOPE - 'An outstanding storyteller' Woman's Weekly When best friends Dee Campbell and Jean Williams leave school in 1959, it feels like every opportunity awaits them. Their families haven't long moved from a rundown part of the city to leafy Kirkby when Jean's father wins the Irish sweepstake and soon Jean's set up her own hairdressing salon, while both girls have fallen for good-looking lads with prospects. But Dee's father is about to discover a disturbing truth about her fiance which will tear the family apart. As Dee flees to Ireland, Jean marries Tony, blissfully unaware that she's not the only pretty girl to catch his eye

It is AD 55. As trouble brews on the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro must prepare for war • The wily Parthian Empire has invaded Roman-ruled Armenia, ousting King Rhadamistus. The King is ambitious and ruthless, but he is loyal to Rome. General Corbulo must restore him to power, while also readying the troops for war with Parthia. Corbulo welcomes new arrivals Cato and Macro, experienced soldiers who know how to knock into shape an undermanned unit of men ill-equipped for conflict • But Rhadamistus's brutality towards those who ousted him will spark an uprising which will test the bravery of the Roman army to the limit. While the enemy watches from over the border

When Hattie is made redundant and evicted from her flat in one horrible week, she needs time to rethink. Her Uncle Albert left her and her father each half of Fisherman's Rest, his home in the Cornish town of Port Medden, so this seems the perfect place to escape to until she can figure things out • As Hattie stays in the cottage, clearing it out, tidying it up and getting it ready to sell, she starts to find her feet in Port Medden and making a new home here begins to feel right. If only her dad didn't need a quick sale and things weren't complicated by her unwelcoming neighbour Marcus

Книга полностью на английском языке. Separated from his wife Irene for some years now, Soames Forsyte has resigned himself to the fact that she\'s never coming back. But as he grows older and richer, he yearns for an heir. When he confronts Irene, the raw wounds of his past passion are exposed and he will do anything to claim back what is his. Then his cousin Jolyon Forsyte moves in to protect and champion Irene and the old rift in the family splinters into new jealousy, hatred, and fear. But this time it runs too deeply for forgiveness!

What would you do if your child wasn't yours? • Utterly compelling, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks's new contemporary novel The Stranger in My Home, is sure to move, grip and delight her fans, along with readers of Liane Moriarty, Jane Shemilt and Lisa Jewell • Alison is lucky and she knows it. She has the life she always craved, including a happy home with Jeff and their brilliant, vivacious teenage daughter, Katherine - the absolute centre of Alison's world • Then a knock at the door ends life as they know it • Fifteen years ago, someone else took Alison's baby from the hospital. And now Alison is facing the unthinkable • The daughter she brought home doesn't belong to her • When you have everything you dreamed of, there is everything to lose

"Поздним летом на винограднике" • - любовный роман Джо Томас • Эмми Бриджес получила возможность, которая выпадает раз в жизни • Что может быть лучше, чем три месяца работы у винодела на холмистых виноградниках Франции? • Это, безусловно, меняет подход к организации офисных коллекций и покупке подарков для свадеб коллег и младенцев. Особенно учитывая, что в ближайшее время не будет ни одной для Эмми • Но по мере того, как Эмми будет справляться с амбициозными коллегами и любовными заигрываниями, она поймет, что самые лучшие - и самые неожиданные - вещи случаются, когда ты доверяешь своим инстинктам • Пришло время отпустить прошлое и, наконец, начать жить • Книга на английском языке • Emmy Bridges has landed the opportunity of a lifetime • What could be better than three months working for a winemaker in the rolling vineyards of France? • It certainly makes a change from organising office collections to buy gifts for colleagues' weddings and babies

После казни в феврале 1542 года любимой, но неверной жены Екатерины Говард, Генрих VIII обращает внимание на дважды овдовевшую Екатерину Парр. Однако та влюблена в Томаса Сеймура, брата покойной королевы Джейн. Узнав о сопернике, король отправляет Сеймура за границу, и у Екатерины Парр не остается выбора, кроме как стать шестой королевой Генриха VIII. Она старается быть ему хорошей женой и с радостью занимается воспитанием его детей • Через четыре года после свадьбы Генрих умирает, оставив трон Англии девятилетнему Эдуарду, марионетке в руках амбициозных придворных, и жизнь Екатерины круто меняется. В восторге от возможности выйти замуж за свою первую любовь, она не понимает, что Томас Сеймур теперь видит в ней всего лишь ступеньку к трону, а на самом деле его цель — дочь Генриха, четырнадцатилетняя Елизавета

"Две женщины в Риме" - прекрасная атмосферная повесть от лауреата премии, автора бестселлеров Элизабет Бьюкен • В Вечном городе ни один секрет не остается секретом надолго… • Лотти Арчер прибывает в Рим взволнованная, чтобы приступить к своей новой работе архивариуса. Когда она обнаруживает ценную картину пятнадцатого века, ее тянет узнать побольше о женщине, которой она принадлежала - о Нине Лоуренс • Нина, похоже, прожила достойную жизнь, восстанавливая итальянские сады во всей их красе после разрушений во время Второй мировой войны. Так почему же никто не пришел на ее похороны в 1978 году? • Книга на английском языке • A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan • In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever… • Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited to begin her new job as an archivist

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa, then on to America, where he volunteers for military service. Missing his homeland and determined to do the right thing, he returns - only to be imprisoned, tortured, and slowly starved, eventually becoming one of only twenty-one survivors of his camp