Résultats Éditeur "Penguin" dans XXe siècle

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written and read by Arundhati Roy. FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL...

Brought to you by Penguin. Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation...

Brought to you by Penguin. As the war rages on outside, it is the battle within that must be won, through the quiet strength of words. Josie Everley may have survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, but she lost the man she loves most to the sea. Broken-hearted and destitute, Josie must start...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies, read by Avita Jay. Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected.

Brought to you by Penguin. AN IMMERSIVE AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND LOVE 'A beautiful bittersweet story of love, loss and families all set in the most irresistible of locations. Tears were shed!' Graham Norton 'A moving and powerful novel from one of Ireland's finest new writers'...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new tale of female camaraderie and romance in an idyllic setting from beloved saga author Rosie Meddon When one woman's second chance at love comes under threat, will she find happiness again? Sussex, 1943. When Veronica Clairmont becomes widowed and loses the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The sixth heartwarming, feel-good instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series! Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in store for the railway girls this festive season... When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval of her...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh, read by Katherine McEwan. Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home. But when Rachel reaches the family farm at...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson. London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband, Paul, works as an air-raid warden.

Brought to you by Penguin. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the emotionally gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling historical fiction and family saga author. Liverpool, 1919. The Great War is over, but Polly Caveney’s nightmare is only just beginning. And when a shocking discovery forces her to flee...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bradford, 1917. Spirited Hattie Braithwaite divides her days between tending to her demanding father and working at Joshua Swainbank’s struggling woollen mill, now turned over to the war effort. But when Maggie Flemming, an avid football fan who is not at all...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Before the Rains by Dinah Jefferies, read by Naomi Frederick. A gripping, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author Dinah Jefferies 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her...

Penguin presents the audio book edition of The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies, read by Anna Bentinck. Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is...

Brought to you by Penguin. Cliffehaven, December 1946 From a hill above the town of Cliffehaven, a young woman makes a heart-breaking choice that will change the course of her life forever. Hours later, a baby is found in the Nativity crib of the local church. Who could have left him there, and...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DRESSMAKER'S PROMISE, THE BEEKEEPER'S SECRET AND THE DARK OF THE MOON! Two women, decades apart, are torn apart by grief but brought together through hope. Shetland, 2001: Ruby Reid is running...

Brought to you by Penguin. The second book in the Royal Maids series that sees a young woman swap a Welsh mining town for Buckingham Palace! Rosa Edwards is finally settling in her role as a Royal Maid - but are things as rosy as they seem with her new sweetheart? December 1944. Royal Maid Rosa...

Brought to you by Penguin. DIVE INTO A DAZZLING WARTIME TALE OF ENDURING LOVE AND HUMAN RESILIENCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS 1924, PRAGUE Two worlds collide, until a world at war threatens to tear them apart . . . On her first day at the Viennese Conservatory, gifted pianist and darling of...