Titres dans 20e siècle

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful and spine-tingling gothic tale exploring mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, and class. There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you. Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing. That’s what her mother had...

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this sweeping dual-timeline novel about old Hollywood secrets and a second chance romance that refuses to stay buried. When Margot DuBois returns to her late grandmother’s house, she plans to sell it quickly and retreat to...

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our best writers, Lauren Groff returns with a fierce new story collection, her first since the award-winning and bestselling Florida. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California -...

El niño al que todos buscan. Una madre dispuesta a defenderlo. Un secreto inconfesable. Más de 180.000 lectores ya tienen a Rafael Tarradas Bultó en su lista de imprescindibles. Todo Reich necesita a sus príncipes cerca. Londres, 1939. Cuando el agente del servicio secreto John Osbourne...

Reeling from her last knock-down, drag-out with Japan’s mighty combined fleet – the Kido Butai – USS Enterprise limps back to Pearl Harbor for repairs and refitting. And like the battle-hardened warriors who live and work inside her, this gallant lady will return to the fight even stronger… but it can’t happen too soon.

After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades ago. She arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to how to rebuild her business from a quaint...

Philipp Erlach hat das Haus seiner Großmutter in der Wiener Vorstadt geerbt, und die Familiengeschichte, von der er definitiv nichts wissen will...

Lei è Hirut, figlia di Fasil e Getey, una ragazzina spaurita in balia di un sistema patriarcale che la vuole schiava. Ma quando i venti di guerra contro gli invasori italiani cominciano a infuriare sulle alture, Hirut, figlia di Fasil e Getey, diventa la temuta guardiana del Re Ombra: come le sue sorelle d'Etiopia ora è un soldato, che non ha più alcun timore di ciò che gli uomini possono fare a donne come lei.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. What war destroys, only love can heal...

December 1940. New Year’s Eve draws closer, but crowds will not be gathering on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate. After a quiet Christmas, the area has suffered London’s most devastating air raid since the start of the Blitz and waves of incendiary bombs have burnt the heart of British book publishing to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago finds a desolate woman sitting among the ruins of her family business and must break the news—her husband’s been found shot dead at their home in Soho.

En 1940, le jeune Adam est envoyé au camp de concentration de Sachsenhausen. Il a été arrêté en Pologne pour avoir voulu résister aux nazis. Malgré le froid, la faim, la peur et la mort omniprésents, Adam refuse de se laisser briser par les horreurs du camp. Avec David, un musicien juif...

A lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by his landlady and her bohemian lodgers. He rooms with an English runaway and want-to-be star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles, and holidays on the Baltic coast with a repressed Englishman and his swaggering German lover.

'A powerful and beautifully told novel about hidden secrets and the hunger to belong. I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 'Has future classic written all over it' Red Magazine 'I loved everything about this book' Julia Quinn, author of BRIDGERTON A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK A...

Don't miss the brand-new instalment in the Dressmakers' Alley series from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke, for fans of Lizzie Lane, Pam Howes and Dilly Court! ✨Catch up with the goings on on Dressmakers' Alley, where love seems to be in the air ❤️ London’s East End 1926 The girls of...

Avec un récit engageant et authentique de ses expériences en tant que prisonnier de guerre évadé, ce témoignage captivant détaille la vie et les luttes d'un pilote capturé en 1917 en Europe ravagée par la guerre. Le lieutenant John Ryan était impatient de voir l'action pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il a rejoint les couleurs britanniques par Canada. En tant que l'un des nombreux pilotes américains du Royal Flying Corps avant que les États-Unis n'entrent en guerre, il a gagné ses ailes et est devenu un as par des féroces batailles aériennes dans le ciel allemand.

Welcome back to MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke's next instalment of her bestselling Blackberry Farm series. The war continues to touch everyone’s lives and loves on Blackberry Farm. Cambridgeshire – 1943 As Spring blossoms, it seems love is in the air. 21-year-old, John Talbot dreams...

Forged in blood, this is how legends begin. . . From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece. 'Jack...

Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) ‘They could be like telegrams, or the most...

Start reading this emotional instalment in MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING author Rosie Clarke's The Family Feud series! Perfect for fans of Lizzie Lane and Fenella J. Miller ❤️With the war finally over, the Searles family are left shell shocked and broken. 1946, Stretton Village – Cambridgeshire...