Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer & Pen/ Faulkner prizes The Hours is a daring & deeply affecting novel inspired by the life & work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate profound & haunting story of love & inheritance hope & despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s taken from her beloved Bloomsbury & lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind & make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles a young wife & mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity & read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. & in New York in the 1990s Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment & goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard an award-winning poet whose mind & body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunninghams exquisite & deeply moving new novel which takes Woolfs life & work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour failure love & madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades & between England & America Cunninghams elegant haunting prose explores the pain & trauma of creativity & the immutable relationship between writer & reader. ...

This work features a young womans dream an old mans gift & the surprises that await us behind every closed door... The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah a perfectly sensible lawyer walks through its empty rooms she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain
- to a drama that first unfolded in war-torn France & to a history she never knew she had. Using an unexpected legacy Sarah takes on the dilapidated house & its mysteries. With the help of architect Jeff Parker Sarah brings the exquisite house back to life & as one relationship shatters & another begins she discovers a whole new future. This is a novel of daring & hope of embracing life & taking chances.
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The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepards beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepard's beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party by the lake of a grand English country house a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley 98 one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor is visited by a young director making a film about the poets suicide. Ghosts awaken & memories long-consigned to the dark reaches of Graces mind begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery & a compelling love story The House at Riverton" will appeal to readers of Ian Mc Ewans " Atonement" L.P. Hartleys " The Go-Between" & lovers of the film " Gosford Park"." ...

A team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. How long have they been there? What could have happened to them? Forensics expert Ruth Galloway & DCI Nelson are drawn together again to unravel the past. Tests reveal that the bodies have lain preserved in the sand for sixty years. The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War a time when Great Britain was threatened by invasion. But someone wants the truth of the past to stay buried & will go to any lengths to keep it that way...even murder. ...

The product of an affair between a nurse & an injured American soldier during the Great War Ruby OHagans early life is in an orphanage. At sixteen she runs away with a farmworker & two years later she is alone & homeless with her two daughters. Her friend Mrs Hart leaves her big friendly house for Ruby to look after & it is here that her life unfolds. Her children leave but return when tragedy befalls them. Through all this the enigmatic Matthew Flynn drifts in & out of Rubys life. She ignores him until it is almost too late. ...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian periods leading exponents of supernatural fiction & was described by M.R. James as standing absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod near Dublin in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard & an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders both recent & historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs & change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm & chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of the greatest novels of a Victorian master of mystery. ...

The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture & geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It

Includes:: episodes as romantic & dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the authors great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love; the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband; the extraordinary courtship of her parents; & her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905. Eugenie Fraser herself was brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotl&. She marvellously evokes a childs reactions to two totally different environments sets of customs & family backgrounds while the characters are beautifully drawn & splendidly memorable. With the events of 1914 to 1920
- the war with Germany the Revolution the murder of the Tsar & the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the north
- came the disintegration of Russia & of family life. The stark realities of hunger deprivation & fear are sharply contrasted with the adventures of childhood. The reader shares the familys suspense & concern about the fates of its members & relives with Eugenie her final escape to Scotl&. In The House by the Dvina Eugenie Fraser has vividly & poignantly portrayed a way of life that finally disappeared in violence & tragedy.



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Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa just outside her small village & dreams of living there someday. When Dante the son of the villas owner invites her inside she knows that her destiny is there with him. But as they grow up they cross an unseen line jeopardizing the very thing they hold most dear... Decades later & hundreds of miles away a beautiful old country house hotel on Englands Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner Marina hires an artist-in-residence to stay the summer & teach the guests how to paint. The man she finds is charismatic & wise & begins to pacify the discord in her family & transform the fortunes of the hotel. However it soon becomes clear that he is not who he seems... From the Italian countryside to the English coast The House by the Sea is a moving & mysterious tale of love forgiveness & the past revealed. ...