Titres dans XXe siècle

A Starkfield, piccolo villaggio del Massachusetts stretto nella morsa di lunghi e implacabili inverni, tutti conoscono Ethan Frome e tutti sembrano custodire il segreto della sua vita. Quando un ingegnere giunto da fuori ne incrocia il cammino, rimane colpito da quell'uomo silenzioso e dall'ombra della tragedia che pare accompagnarlo ovunque. Poco alla volta, attraverso racconti frammentari, allusioni e ricordi, si ricompongono gli eventi che hanno segnato per sempre il suo destino...

After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willett sisters find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell, the middle daughter, has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from marrying against her father's wishes. The couple head for Lancashire, but Nell's happiness is short-lived. A gypsy palm-reader tells her she will find her destiny under 'three big trees on a hill', and her luck does seem to change when she meets Gil, a farmer and a gentleman who she can't help but feel drawn to.

From bestselling author Lizzie Lane's Cottage Hospital series Times are changing as secrets unfold… Somerset, 1931 Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital, striving to improve the medical treatments on offer to the...

Manhattan, 1946. Die junge Grace Healey stößt auf ein Dutzend Fotografien auffallend attraktiver Frauen, die vom britischen Geheimdienst nach Frankreich geschickt wurden. Beim Versuch, das Rätsel ihres Verbleibs zu lösen, begegnet Grace eine Geschichte von Mut, Liebe und Verrat. London, 1943. Um ihr Kind in Sicherheit zu bringen, nimmt die alleinerziehende Marie ein Angebot des Geheimdiensts an: Zum ersten Mal sollen Frauen als Spioninnen im besetzten Frankreich tätig werden.

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.

London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter—leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him. But her search will lead her into far darker places than she ever imagined.

Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out, he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray. Lisette Forestier is on a mission of her own: to work her way into the heart of a senior German officer - and to bring down the Reich in any way she can.

Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory. A promotion and a...

Berlin, 1922: Die Weimarer Republik steuert auf die Inflation zu und die Nachwehen der Revolution haben sich noch nicht gelegt, als Artur, Isi und Carl nur knapp einem Mordanschlag durch rechte Verschwörer entgehen. Artur macht seinem Ruf alle Ehre und schlägt gnadenlos zurück. Derweil leidet Carl unter Regisseur Fritz Lang, für den er an "Dr. Mabuse" arbeitet, und gerät in den Bann des neuartigen Tonfilms. Und dann ist da noch die Sorge um Isi, die Schöne und Starrköpfige, die seit dem Anschlag Streit mit jedem sucht.

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton - until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour. That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall - but she wants to spend a lot more time with Jimmy’s fiancée. The irrepressible Miss Fenella Carruth, with her laughing eyes and lush curves, is the most glorious woman Pat’s ever met, and it quickly becomes impossible to remember why she needs to stay at arm’s length.

The Teashop Girls is a warm and moving tale of friendship and love in wartime, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest. It is early 1940 and World War Two has already taken a hold on the country. Rose Neville works as a Lyon’s Teashop Nippy on the Kent coast...

'A wonderfully satisfying read: love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with' – Santa Montefiore An Island full of secrets . . . Summer, 1929. Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it...

James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a country doctor. The last thing in the world he needs is a handsome stranger who seems to be mixed up with the first violent death the village has seen in years. It certainly doesn't help that this stranger is the first person James has wanted to touch since before the war.

'This book is my happy place!' Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the number 88 bus...

Desde los viñedos dorados de Málaga hasta las tierras fértiles de Mendoza, Isabel recorre un camino signado por el amor al terruño, la pasión verdadera y el coraje de afrontar los infortunios inesperados. Obligada a casarse y a emigrar a América, en 1900, deja atrás a Antonio, el amor de su juventud, sin saber que el destino volverá a cruzarlos después de una larga peripecia, revueltas políticas y secretos largamente guardados.

Dans le monde scintillant de la société victorienne, où les réputations sont primordiales et où l'amour est souvent un luxe, Valentina Sinclair est une femme en avance sur son temps—pleine de caractère, indépendante, et déterminée à vivre selon ses propres règles. Mais lorsqu'elle rencontre l'énigmatique et séduisant James Windermere, le comte de Windermere, son cœur soigneusement protégé commence à se dévoiler.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse, read by Rosie Jones. Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress...

Der bewegende Auftakt der neuen Saga von Bestsellerautorin Ada Caine im Karlsbad des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die junge Krämertochter Walburga sucht ihr Glück in der Kunst des Oblatenbackens. 1894: Die Krämertochter Walburga arbeitet im Laden ihres verstorbenen Vaters und versorgt als talentierte Bäckerin reiche Familien mit Torten. Ihr Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als ihr Bruder sich vermählen will. Seine Braut fordert, dass Burgl nach der Hochzeit das Haus verlässt und heiratet.

"Das Leben ist zu kurz, um unbemerkt zu bleiben." Spanien, 1929: Gala begleitet ihren Mann, den Dichter Paul Éluard, in den Fischerort Cadaqués, wo er einen jungen Künstler namens Salvador treffen will, der bald in Paris ausstellen soll. Als Gala den zehn Jahre jüngeren Künstler kennenlernt, ist sie fasziniert von seinem eigenwilligen Auftreten. Er öffnet ihr immer mehr den Blick für seine Welt - und hat dabei nur Augen für sie, Gala. Die aufkeimende Liebe zwischen den beiden bleibt Paul nicht verborgen, und er stellt Gala vor eine Entscheidung.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.