20th Century

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....

Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....

Sir James Harrison was one of the greatest actors of his generation. But, when he passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind more than just a heartbroken family. He leaves a secret so shocking, so devastating that it could rock the English establishment to its very core . . .

Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, he’ll return home to build his own mechanic business and become master of his own destiny.

A sweeping saga from Bryce Courtenay, Australia's most popular author....

Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals....

When their idyllic childhood is shattered by the sudden death of their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Jules are sent to a bleak state boarding school. Once there, the orphans' lives change tracks....

Postwar Paris is alive with optimism, but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love, Lisette, remain haunted by the horrors they have endured.....

It's been two months since Will Darling saw Kim Secretan, and he doesn't expect to see him again. But when Will encounters a face from the past in a disreputable nightclub, Kim turns up, as shifty, unreliable, and irresistible as ever....

In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later....

In the exclusive seaside community of Burning Cove, more than one person with a dark past has gone to reinvent themselves. But some secrets are just too deadly to stay hidden, and some pasts can never stay buried....

The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature....

Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives....

It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital....

Young theatre nurse Clare Maitland is devastated when her fiancé calls off their dream wedding because he wants to marry someone else. The chance of a nursing job in Scotland seems the answer to all of Clare's problems. But she discovers that escaping the men in her life won't be easy....

As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fiercely proud redhead Sylvia Roberts is determined to help in any way she can. In spite of her mother’s belief she isn’t good enough, Sylvia believes that becoming a home front nurse is her calling.

Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London’s East End. From babies born out of wedlock to battered wives, they’ve had plenty to keep them occupied....

The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence.

Eva Kershaw thought she would never marry and is happy living a quiet life with her dear friend Alice. But Alice is ill, and her nephew, Gus, has thrust himself into their household....

A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm, responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of hundreds. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over....

After the heartbreak of World War Two, newlywed midwife Cathy hoped Liverpool life would offer some joy. But a terrible miscarriage and the escape of her abusive stepfather Jack from prison make happiness hard to find....

Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital, striving to improve the medical treatments on offer to the community.

Noah and Allie fell in love as teenagers, with the purest sort of love, only to be kept apart by Allie's mother. Their feelings survived in spite of everything....

The start of the war and the tragic loss of their beloved father marks the end of an era for the Searles family as their children embark on their adult lives.

The second installment in the breathtaking Kershaw Sisters series. There is no love like a mother's for her child....

When Millie Hudson is introduced to Dr. Winston Felton, it’s love at first sight. She can hardly wait to become his wife and eagerly makes plans for their new life together. However, days before their wedding, her new mother-in-law, Mother Nola, announces she’s moving in. And everything changes.

In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world … Maureen was the movie star, whose role as Tarzan’s Jane helped rewrite the rules of cinema censorship. Sonia was the aspiring writer who became George Orwell’s wife and the guardian of his literary legacy. And Vivien was the actress as iconic as the roles she played, from Cleopatra to Scarlett O’Hara. Together their careers encompassed glamour and tragedy, triumph and scandal.

Santander 1930.Inés Calleja se ve obligada a huir de su casa después que su novio la abandonase para casarse con otra. Humillada y rechazada por la sociedad, conoce durante el viaje a Lucía Madrazo, que también ha abandonado su pueblo dejando atrás un doloroso pasado. Juntas abrirán un negocio en Sevilla, donde triunfarán.Pancho Madrazo, hermano de Lucía, regresa a España desde México, donde ha hecho fortuna.

On a cold February morning in 1966, Hannah arrives at Eight Mile Point on Lake Simcoe to ice fish for freshwater herring. She and her father visited the lake a few times as a child; a tradition cut short by her parent’s untimely death. Unable to focus on the manuscript she is supposed to work on, Hannah instead finds herself ruminating on what has brought her here after all these years.

Début 1944, Anne, la fille aînée de Peggy Reilly, est partie s'installer dans le Somerset, au sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, avec ses deux enfants. La vie de la jeune enseignante y est moins dangereuse qu'à Cliffehaven, le village côtier où réside sa mère et que survolent de nombreux avions de combat. Pourtant, Anne vit dans l'angoisse de ne jamais revoir Martin, son époux. Pilote et formateur dans la RAF, il multiplie les missions de plus en plus risquées en territoire ennemi.