A Single Thread
1932 After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fianc , Violet Speedwell has become a surplus woman, one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered
The Glass Ocean
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century two deep in the past, one in the present to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania May 2013 Her finances are in dir
The Poppy Field
One to Watch Good HousekeepingThis year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.Young nurse, Gemma, is struggling with the traumas she has witnessed through her job in the NHS Needing to escape from it all, Gemma agrees to help renovate a rundown farmhouse in Doullens, Franc
The Girl in the Castle
Ireland The early twentieth century Two girls on the cusp of womanhood A nation on the brink of war Read their story and see why JOJO Moyes says that Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in Castle De
House of Gold
Such is the power and wealth of the Goldbaums that on dull days, it s said, they hire the sun just for themselves The Goldbaums influence reaches across Europe They are the confidants and bankers of governments and emperors Little happens without their say so and even less without their knowledg
World War 1: A History From Beginning to End
World War IWorld War 1 was one of the bloodiest wars in modern history At its end, it had claimed over seventeen million lives It led to the collapse of nations, the abdication of monarchies and ended empires Entire divisions of men perished in the pursuit of mere miles of uninhabitable wasteland
The Royal Nanny
Based on a seldom told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain s royal family a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes April, 1897 A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess
Cavendon Hall (Cavendon Hall, #1)
From the 1 New York Times bestselling author comes an epic saga of intrigue and mystique set in Edwardian England Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their s
Murder in Belgravia (A Mayfair 100 Murder Mystery #1)
PERFECT FOR FANS OF COSY CRIME, DOWNTON ABBEY, FOYLE S WAR AND THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE The first in an exciting new Mayfair 100 series of nostalgic crime sagas Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small specially formed crimebusting team based in a house in Mayfa
The Black Ascot (Inspector Ian Rutledge #21)
Scotland Yard s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.An astonishing tip from a grateful ex convict seems implausible but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scot
A Bend in the Stars
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart pounding journey across WWI era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest
The Gate Keeper (Inspector Ian Rutledge #20)
December 1920 Hours after his sister s wedding, late at night, a restless Ian Rutledge drives down a country road somewhere en route to Ipswich Haunted by the past, he narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road Standing beside the vehicle is a frightened young woman in pa
The Silver Music Box
A captivating cross generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together 1914 For Paul, with love Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a si
The Parisian
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris.
Where My Heart Used to Beat
The new bestseller from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December You don t live the life I have without making some enemies Having accepted a strange but intriguing invitation to a French island, psychiatrist Robert Hendricks meets the man who has commissioned him to write a biography But
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Mar a Remarque Alemania, 1897 Suiza, 1970 Pertenece a la generaci n de escritores alemanes que vivieron la experiencia de las dos guerras mundiales Obligado a abandonar sus estudios cuando solo contaba dieciocho a os de edad y hacia dos que hab a empezado la Primera Guerra Mundial, fue inc
The Guns of August
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
From the 1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of c
The Alice Network
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women a female spy recruited to the real life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 are brought together in a mesmerizing story of co