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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the listener in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves.

In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.

A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. The taut new mystery from the bestselling author of The Inheritance, perfect for readers of Sally Hepworth and Liane Moriarty. Desperate people do desperate things... Sixteen years ago, teenage Maddie Marshall's body was found on a...

Eine neue Zeit, eine große Liebe und eine mutige Frau, die ihren Weg geht. Um ihre Familie zu retten, folgt Elise von Achenthal ihrer Pflicht und heiratet den Londoner Fabrikantensohn Fletcher Cunningham. Die Hochzeitsreise führt sie über den Atlantik zu Plantagen im Süden der USA, wo Elise die Schrecken der Sklaverei aus erster Hand miterlebt. Doch Fletcher sieht in der Ausbeutung von Sklaven und Arbeitern nur seinen Vorteil. Und damit nicht genug: Um die schwangere Elise zu „schonen“, kauft er sich eine junge Sklavin und nimmt sie zu seinem Vergnügen mit nach England.