Ergebnis für "jane" in 20. Jahrhundert

"Richard Armitage is an excellent choice of narrator for this celebration of the famed British author's work. His deep, resonant voice meanders through the stories of seven different people in the small English town of Chawton...a great casual listen, especially for those familiar with Austen's...

In den politischen Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs gerät auch die Familie Lauritzen mehr und mehr in Bedrängnis. Während der Vater sich politisch zurückhält, sind seine beiden Töchter im Widerstand aktiv. Vor allem seine älteste Tochter Johanne, die zunächst als Kurier für den norwegischen Widerstand eingesetzt wird, findet im politischen Kampf ihre Berufung.

Brought to you by Penguin. You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you. It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now, she's ready for her life to begin again, and she's set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at...

Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes...

Malcolm has held on to a secret for more than fifty years: a letter his sister Sophy gave him just before she died. He had promised to give it to the young doctor she met one night during the Liverpool Blitz: a night that altered the course of her life. But the letter was never delivered. Now, after so many years of uncertainty, Malcolm has decided to share Sophy's secret with her daughter Agnes.

How far are you willing to go to get what you truly desire? It’s the summer of 1957 and Max, a piano prodigy, is on a sold-out concert tour. His beautiful twin sister, Natasha, serves as his manager and minder. But despite Natasha’s careful planning, he begins, for the first time in his...

Brought to you by Penguin. The uplifting and moving Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years, a bond formed by a lifetime of memories. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, REM...

From the Treaty of Versailles to the first bombs falling on Warsaw—the countdown to catastrophe, told through the forms that filed it into existence."This is not peace. This is an armistice for twenty years."A German diplomat spoke those words in 1919. He was wrong by only thirty-seven days. THE DOOMSDAY TIMETABLE is a sweeping work of historical fiction that traces the path from the humiliations of Versailles to the morning Neville Chamberlain told Britain it was at war. But this is not a story of great men making great decisions.

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...

When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times...

The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future. In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored...

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping, emotional wartime saga series from Jane Lark 🚂💔📖 Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Daisy Styles. As bombs fall, hopes and dreams are shattered, and the Great Western Railway Girls rely on their friendship like never before. When Swindon comes...

Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever.

A totally absorbing historical novel about socialites, spies, and the King of England. London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela pens the popular 'Agent of Influence' column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she interviews Wallis Simpson, the newly...

Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother’s act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father’s imprisonment. It’s his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty, the harder it becomes.

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939...

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.

A world on the brink of war. One woman whose courage could change everything. Paris, 1938. As Europe teeters on the edge of war, Lady Pamela More knows her latest assignment is her most dangerous yet. Her days as a London society columnist are merely a cover. She must infiltrate the decadent...

1940, England: Clementine Churchill is standing alone on a rooftop in London as bombs rain down on the city when a nearby explosion almost knocks her off her feet. Shaking, she rushes homewards to 10 Downing Street and breathes a sigh of relief when she sees the famous building is still there. It means the Prime Minister–her husband–is still alive.