Showing results for "Flora" in Genre Fiction

According to Tatler's Little Black Book, The Honourable Guy Tillingford is Britain's twenty-ninth most eligible bachelor, after the Marquess of Granby and grime artist Tornado. With a seven-year-old daughter, Hatty, to care for, studious divorcee Alice Merrow doesn't have time for celebrity gossip. When Alice and her flamboyant boss, Desmond Kingston-Campbell, realise that everything – and everyone – at Tillingford Hall are not as they seem, their discoveries could tear the Tillingford family apart.

Charlotte Patcham's dream job running the Bath Physick Garden has turned into a nightmare: the underfunded garden has become a target for vandals, and her career and her social life are succumbing to mildew. So why does she hesitate to take the job of Head Gardener at Hampshire's famous Tillingford Hall? But when fate pushes Charlie towards Tillingford Hall can she learn to work alongside Seb so they can get everything ready for the public in time for the opening Christmas concert?

Flo Richards is done with Cornwall and in particular, with her home town, Helston. Now she's built a successful life in LA, and her return to Helston is for one purpose only: to sell the grand house she inherited from her godfather and cut her last tie to the past. But her plan is derailed when she's forced to lead the town's traditional Flora Day dance with Ke Dale - her first love. As the festival pulls them back into their old rhythm, a letter from Flora's late mother unearths a life-altering secret about her own identity.

Arriving on the Isle of Harris with swash and bluster, three young American students are set to run a marathon the islanders know nothing about.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

On the windswept dunes of the Isle of Harris in the wild and beautiful Outer Hebrides of Scotland, is a small white house with a big history. These days, Flora’s House is a holiday home – the perfect base for visitors from far and wide to explore the stunning and often dramatic landscape. Arriving with one suitcase for clothes and another for their own decorations, retired couple Maggie and Roger have booked Flora’s House for the festive season. It’s their first trip to the island and their first Christmas away from home – but where does Roger disappear to on his long walks?

’Tis the season for mulled wine, mince pies, and magic under the mistletoe… 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 ‘An absolutely delightful festive feel good book! Perfect for snuggling up with a steaming mug of hot chocolate in front of a roaring fire!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

To søstre - tvillinger er de oven i købet - og voksne - er sammen i bil på vej til en ferieby et sted i Sydeuropa. Deres mål er at besøge en onkel, der vistnok opholder sig på en slags hospital, angivelig fordi han lider af noget, der ligner paranoia. Under alle omstændigheder er han patient og under behandling eller opsyn. Og efter planen skal søstrene bo i hans lejlighed og derfra besøge ham på hospitalet i nærheden.

Una hermana desaparecida, un misterioso cuento, una novela mágica sobre el poder de las historias. En el Londres de 1939, Hazel, de catorce años, y Flora,...

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. As Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the station, pulling a fleet of slatted trucks behind. But the trucks don't contain animals. From within come the sounds of humans, groaning, pleading, on a desperate journey across the Swiss countryside.

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...

Eine Frau entdeckt ein seltenes Buch, Verbindungen zu ihrer Vergangenheit werden aufdeckt, lang gehütete Geheimnisse über ihre vermisste Schwester und ihre Kindheit im englischen Hinterland während des Zweiten Weltkriegs enthüllt. Im kriegszerstörten London von 1939 werden die...

Lo sa bene il diavolo che cosa si cela nell'animo umano, quanto in basso possono arrivare gli esseri umani pur di ottenere quello che vogliono.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.

It’s the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck by the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women - that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women’s suffrage.

The world is frozen. The animals in the ascendant. And, locked in desperate pursuit of "the other father" across a grim, icy apocalypse, Jim will do anything to keep his daughter alive.

It was meant to be a romantic Christmas getaway... Except Flora's boyfriend Paul is more interested in whether there's WiFi in their holiday cottage than he is in the pretty village of Padcock where it's located. It seems he's incapable of taking time out from his work for gossip mag darling Maxine Marling - or Maxine Marmoset as Flora not so secretly calls her (well, she does look like a marmoset!) - to spend time with his actual girlfriend.

Topcharmerende roman fra den britiske bestsellerforfatter Jenny Colgan om den unge kvinde Flora, der forlader sit hektiske liv i London for at åbne en restaurant i sin hjemby på den skotske ø Mure. Da Flora MacKenzie forlader den skotske ø Mure og den lille, stille by, hun er vokset op i, ser hun sig ikke tilbage. Der ved alle, hvem hun er, og ingen lader til nogensinde at ville lade fortid være fortid. I Londons pulserende byliv kan hun derimod være helt anonym - og give efter for sin håbløse forelskelse i sin charmerende chef Joel.

"Lügnerin", ging es Maivy durch den Kopf. Sie war sich sicher, dass die Inhaberin des unscheinbaren Blumenladens mehr wusste, als sie preisgeben wollte. Und schon bald würde sie das dunkle Geheimnis von "Floras Blüten" lüften.

Inselflair und Glücksgefühle: Der krönende Abschluss der Frauenroman-Reihe um die kleine Sommerküche von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Gleich drei verliebte Paare suchen in »Hochzeitsglocken auf der kleinen Insel« nach ihrem Happy End – Romantik und Sommersonne garantiert! Instagram-Star Olivia plant eine Hochzeit, die alle anderen in den Schatten stellen soll. Und das ausgerechnet auf der schottischen Insel Mure.