Showing results for "british" in Women's Fiction

When I’m offered the chance to leave New York to live in London for three months, I can’t pack my suitcase fast enough. As soon as I touch down, I’m obsessing over red telephone boxes, palaces, and all the black cabs. But my favorite place is the tube. It’s wall-to-wall hot British men in suits.

Bowen, John und Liam kennen sich seit ihrer Kindheit und sind bis heute eng befreundet. Sie besitzen alles, was sich ein Mann nur erträumen kann. Bis auf die Frau fürs Leben. Das soll sich ändern! Handschlag drauf! Innerhalb des Zeitraums einer Schwangerschaft muss jeder seine große Liebe finden. Leichter gesagt als getan. Denn Frauenliebling Bowen McLoughlin muss sich kurz nach Antritt seiner Stelle als Geschäftsführer eines der größten Verlage Irlands gleich zwischen zwei Damen entscheiden.

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. “A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I...

A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

Life for Lucy Jenkins is going OK ... ish. Yes, she's 33, single, and has had to work as a waitress and children's party entertainer since her social worker salary suffered from budget cuts, but she stays positive and manages to pay the mortgage on her flat. Her home is her sanctuary -- until Tom moves in downstairs. Lucy and Tom quickly fall in love and into a serious relationship, which is complicated by Tom's recent separation from his wife, who he has two young sons with.

Eager to move on from a master’s thesis that left her questioning her passion for history, Josie dives headlong into her new job and life in a small town. Faced with the prospect of remaining long-term, she must decide if she will fight to carve a place for herself in Wells’s idiosyncratic community. What follows is the story of a young woman trying to find connection and purpose in the twenty-first century while living in a village seemingly frozen in the past.

Kurz vor Weihnachten reist Wendy nach Sunpoint, um den Nachlass ihrer Großmutter zu regeln. Was als einfache Aufgabe beginnt, führt sie schnell auf die Spur einer rätselhaften Vergangenheit. Warum verließ ihre Großmutter einst den idyllischen Küstenort – und was veranlasste sie, Jahre später zurückzukehren? Als Wendy in das Cottage einzieht, in dem ihre Großmutter bis zu ihrem Tod gelebt hat, wird Avery, Vermieter des Hauses und Chef einer Firma für Weihnachtsdekoration, neugierig. Er bietet Wendy seine Hilfe an, als sie sich auf die Suche nach der Vergangenheit macht.