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July 1914. Britain is in turmoil as WW1 begins to change the world. While the young men disappear off to foreign battlefields, the women left at home throw themselves into jobs meant for the boys. Hiding her privileged background and her suffragette past, Constance Copeland signs up to be a Clippie on the trams in Staffordshire, despite her parents' disapproval. Constance, known as Connie, soon makes fast friends with lively fellow Clippies, Betty and Jean, as well as growing closer to the charming, gentle Inspector Robert Caldwell.

The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University. It’s 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm’s, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country...

The little girl looked like an angel in her thin white robe, her long black hair spread around her head like a dark halo on the snow. Her hands rested on her chest, fingers interlaced as if she had fallen asleep while praying. But she would never wake up again....

For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND...

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria. The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a...

Aller guten Dinge sind - immer noch - drei!Nachdem wir uns bei der Ersten gewehrt haben, der Zweiten mit souveräner Gelassenheit begegneten, finden wir die Dritte nachgerade gut.

In den überaus erotischen Romanen geht es um verschiedene junge Frauen, die ihre sexuellen Gelüste hemmungslos in ihrem Beruf ausleben. Sie betonen ihre weiblichen Vorzüge durch kurze Kleider, Röcke und Strumpfhosen und verstehen es, Ihr Umfeld durch Freizügigkeit um den Finger zu wickeln. Valerie Nilon glänzt mit ihrer authentischen Erzählweise aus der Ich-Perspektive der verschiedenen Protagonistinnen. Der Hörer nimmt hautnah an den Gedanken und Erlebnissen teil.