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Paris, 1900. Celebrated carousel-maker Gilbert works night and day to finish his masterpiece in time for the city’s Exposition Universelle. But Gilbert is struggling in the wake of his wife and son’s tragic deaths, and as he finalises his creation, a dangerous idea forms in his mind. Chicago, 1920. Maisie Marlowe has come to America in the search of a new life. When she unearths a beautiful, neglected old carousel, she seizes the opportunity to carve a thrilling new destiny for herself. But Maisie doesn’t know that beneath its glittering facade, the carousel is hiding a dark secret. Twenty years ago, it was linked to a number of people inexplicably vanishing into thin air – and now history has begun to repeat itself.
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Set in the icy beauty of Norway, The Storm Sister is the second book in the Seven Sisters series by international number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley.
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From Cairo 1939 on the eve of the war and then thirty years later to 1970s Beirut on the eve of yet another conflict? A young archaeologist spends her life bringing the past to light – now she must dig through the secrets and lies about her own past to uncover the truth about her mother’s life in wartime Cairo.
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Hanging beside the door is a painting of a wedding feast. The light is centred on the bride; the guests are banished to the shade. That is how it is when he looks at her: all others fade away. 1642. The Dutch Golden Age is underway, with Amsterdam at the height of its powers. Geertje, an impoverished widow from Edam, enters a melting pot of wealth and culture when she becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter Rembrandt. After Rembrandt’s wife dies, Geertje grows close to him. Despite her friends’ warnings she begins a passionate affair with the master of light and shadow, with devastating results.
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Jane Eyre, the beloved heroine, is for many their first introduction to a truly independent female character in classic literature. Charlotte Brontë develops an assertive and passionate character in Jane, whose search for belonging and freedom, while radical at the time of publication, remains refreshingly relevant for the modern-day reader.
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This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.
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Her mother’s dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman’s warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.
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Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help think they were right. She was 17 when she’d first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank who picked up the pieces. Together they’d built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. And there was a time – even years – when she was happy. Watching her husband and son riding a tractor across their farm, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But then Gabriel came back, and all Beth’s certainty about who she was crumbled.
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When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family.
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The beloved author’s feistiest heroine in a gorgeous special edition to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Austen’s birth.
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A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s superb pastiche of the gothic romance to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s most enduring and popular novel to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
