Lucy Scott
21) Women in War
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
She must face the terror of war alone to survive…
1939 - India
When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party.
Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious. He arranges for her to be exiled from India and married off to Australian...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A totally gorgeous escapist new story from the author of the international bestseller, A Year at the French Farmhouse.
Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven't been easy. She's had to raise her two daughters alone and she's so proud to see them all grown up, and she knows that's down to her. But she can't help but feel like she doesn't know what to do with her...
23) The Godmother
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Stop trying to be brave all the time, Rachel. Fear is a necessary part of being alive. Sometimes we have to let it show. We have to own up to it or it drives us mad.'
Rachel Elliot is single and attractive, a director of a successful advertising agency, with a handsome lover, close friends, and a clutch of beloved godchildren. But as her fortieth birthday approaches, so does a whispering fear that she might have missed the point...
Almost imperceptibly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Click: buy… a French chateau. Condition: 'may require improvement'…
It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we own. Just Mark and I, swapping our tiny little terraced London home – and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family – for an entire chateau in the middle of France… This has always been our dream. And now it's coming true.
As I use the rusty key to open the big, creaking wooden door of the tumbledown fairytale...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Beautifully written, comforting and utterly uplifting, Lucy Coleman's stories are the perfect tonic when life is a little grey.' Holly Martin
Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams, live and work in Lisbon. The vibrancy, the beautiful scenery and the sunshine, made her fall in love and she knew, instantly, that it would be her forever home.
International artist Reid Henderson has homes in Lisbon and London. Following his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. 'A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
27) The Album
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a quiet cul-de-sac, an elderly invalid is slaughtered with an axe Crescent Place was once a peaceful country green surrounded by five tasteful suburban houses and populated by polite, responsible citizens. But as the city enveloped it, the residents built a gate to keep the world out. With each passing year, the subdivision grew stranger and stranger-until it began to look like a time capsule of the 1890s. In these houses are a husband and wife...
28) Vera
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier's Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigue When Lucy Entwhistle's father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happens to meet the recently widowed Everard Wemyss. Their shared grief brings them together as they find in each other someone to talk to and in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A certain Lady is kidnapped, shipwrecked, and transported to the extraordinary Blazing World, where she marries an emperor and attains unlimited power. Hers is a benevolent reign that ends war, religious conflict, and gender discrimination. Remarkably, the Lady's story was conceived in the seventeenth century, when utopian fiction was in its infancy. The tale is all the more noteworthy for its progressive ideals, its female protagonist, and its authorship...
30) The best friend
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Friend is a dark, suspenseful novel and first standalone from Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford Murders series and the companion Downton Abbey books. Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious and just a little dangerous. Yet in spite of their intimacy,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic of the interior life and Christian mysticism remains as fresh and inspiring today as it was 400 years ago. Written by a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun, it forms a practical guide to prayer that embraces readers with its warmth and accessibility. St. Teresa of Avila's detailed directions on the achievement of spiritual perfection designate three essentials - fraternal love, detachment from material things,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music
that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. While our ears no longer
hear him as controversial, his works heralded the dawn of an artistic period founded on
innovation and experiment, and a desire to break with the past in search of new expressive
means. With never a dull moment, Debussy went from being a musical misfit at the Paris
Conservatoire...
Author
Language
English
Description
The first in an explosive series featuring the Strong family and a legacy of lies that leads to passion, love, murder and heartbreak…
Barbados 1818
One fateful night, a terrible tragedy occurs at the Strong family sugar plantation on the paradise island of Barbados. The Strong family quickly move to keep the shocking event a secret. But secrets can't stay hidden forever…
Twenty-two years later Blanche Strong, the living, breathing proof of...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Strong family has survived against all odds, but their greatest test is still to come.
After a seemingly endless labour, Horatia Strong is delighted to announce that she's given her husband, Tom, a much-needed son and heir to the entire Strong fortune. But the birth of the child is soon shrouded in secrets and Horatia will do anything to keep the truth from her husband – it could destroy the Strong family completely.
Tom's enduring love for...
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover the brand new escapist read from the author of Top 10 bestseller, A Year at the French Farmhouse.
It was just supposed to be a holiday, but could it become the second chance she didn't know she needed...?
Life isn't quite going as planned for Katy. With her only daughter living in Australia and a husband who has asked for a break, she is suddenly at a loss.
Her best friends, Sam, Vicky and Ivy have always been there for her through thick...
36) The Beach House
Author
Language
English
Description
Pre-order the brand new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Bridesmaid and The Daughter in Law.
It should have been the perfect weekend…
Work colleagues Nicole, Margo, Paisley and Audrey all appear to be looking forward to a weekend away at Nicole's luxurious beach house on the Dorset coast. It should be a chance for the women to kick back, relax and regroup after a stressful moment at work.
But this is no normal girls'...
Author
Language
English
Description
Polish by birth, Fryderyk Chopin made his
name in post-Revolutionary Paris and is
often depicted as the archetypal Romantic
artist - blessed with extraordinary talent
but consumed by the flame of genius,
tormented by intense and tempestuous
relationships and doomed to an early death.
But how much of this story is based on fact?
This account of Chopin's life and times
separates myth and reality and, illustrated
with numerous musical examples,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Famous today for his Trois Gymnopédies, Erik
Satie was an eccentric and solitary figure who
was nevertheless viewed by some as a prophet of
French musical modernism, his striking
creativity championed by Ravel and Debussy.
From tragedy and trauma in his early years,
through his time as a pianist and Parisian
provocateur at Le Chat Noir cabaret, and as
house composer to the mystical Rose+Croix cult
and beyond, Satie's eventful life is told in this
fascinating...
Author
Language
English
Description
Among Jane Austen's favourite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, Camilla follows the story of three young sisters, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naïve Camilla, the eponymous heroine, is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man, but must suffer a series of frequent misunderstandings that threaten their happy union. Intelligent Eugenia, destined to inherit her uncle's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Imogen Tolliman and Gray Adams can't wait to get married after getting engaged the previous year, when they were stranded by snow in a blizzard. Now they are busy planning their wedding, but when the date slips six months because Gray is working on a huge film project, it seems like fate that after their snowy start, they will end up getting married at Christmas.
The couple is living in Immi's grandfather's picturesque lockkeeper's cottage at the...