Résultats pour "man" dans XXe siècle

Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honour begins with 13 year-old Blackie O’Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother’s brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand buildings and engineering triumphs of one of England’s most prosperous cities and starts to dream of greater things.

1959. The long, hot summer bakes the sleepy, Southern town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor’s office before he begins medical school in the fall. Handsome, principled, and keenly observant, he will lodge with the Millers, the local doctor’s family. But he never bargained for Lizzie Quinlan - a complex, kindred spirit who is beautiful and compassionate, yet scorned by the townsfolk.

Es ist nie zu spät für die Liebe. Aber manchmal zu früh - Friederika hat große Füße und nennt sich Frie. Robert, neu an der Schule und schüchtern, verliebt sich sofort, zeigt es aber nicht. Frie geht als Au–pair nach Sydney, Robert als Zivi nach Hamburg. Er lernt einen alten Generalmajor kennen, der seine Zukunft entscheidend beeinflussen wird. Als Frie zurückkehrt und in Hamburg zu studieren beginnt, ist Robert ein anderer geworden. Einer, für den sie doch mehr empfindet. Aber die zwei verpassen auch diese und weitere Chancen – bis sich ihre Wege nach zwanzig Jahren erneut kreuzen.

Set in mid-century Rome and England, this forbidden slow-burn love story will take your breath away ‘Lush, evocative and sexy’ – The Sunday Times 'A thrilling love story of intellect and passion' – The Observer 'Truly outstanding: clever, passionate and as clean as a bone' – Melissa...

An incisive novelist in the Southern tradition, Michael Morris has garnered comparisons to Harper Lee and Flannery O’Connor. Set during the tumult of World War I, Man in the Blue Moon follows Ella Wallace, a single mother fighting a corrupt banker to keep her family’s ancestral land. So when a mysterious man arrives on her doorstep with promises of help, Ella reluctantly places her trust in him. But it soon becomes clear that things aren’t on the up and up, putting Ella’s land - and her family - in jeopardy

A love story between men - without being, basically, a novel about gay issues; more about appreciating what you have while you have it, and ultimately learning what matters to you in life.

The long, hot summer bakes the sleepy, Southern town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor’s office before he begins medical school in the fall. But he never bargained for Lizzie Quinlan—a complex, kindred spirit who is beautiful and compassionate, yet scorned by the townsfolk. With her quirky wisdom and a spine of steel hidden beneath an effortless sensuality, Lizzie is about to change Billy Ray’s life—and his heart—forever.

Brought to you by Penguin. **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences 1980s Cork. Jack Shine discovers a shoe box full of love letters in his...

The epic saga behind the Disney-produced Hulu series The Lions of Sicily The magnificent third installment of the Florio story–a sweeping, decadent, and romantic finale that tells the story of Italy’s most powerful and notorious family as it faces its dramatic end. After triumph and...