LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan brookes

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan brookes

  • Horror at Ottewell
    Alan Brookes
    At the top of Hobs Hole Hill, perched upon the rubble walls of an old priory, the Victorian engineers built ’Cloisters Sanatorium and Lunatic Asylum’. The sprawling 150 acre estate is situated close to the isolated village of Ottewell, a hamlet mentioned in King William the Conqueror’s 1000 year-old Domesday Book. After a few short years of its ill-omened existence, the institu...
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    21,35 €

  • Godfrey’s Bookshop
    Alan Brookes
    For a reader of modern literature, a new bookshop in town presents an exhilarating prospect. To browse and find a book that you find fascinating is a worthwhile pastime for a bibliophile. There are as many book subjects as there are readers, different books for different people. Human nature’s depravities only need a little encouragement to thrive. So, when the owner of a new, ...
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    18,35 €

  • The Crucified Abbott
    Alan Brookes
    Behind the ruins of the old priory at the summit of Brereton Hill, close by the village of Upper Slaughter and enclosed by two oak plantations grows the Abbot Ibáñez yew tree. This living relic is not so much a landmark, but it is more than well known by all who live nearby, as a spooky feature embedded in the Triassic Sandstone of Cannock Chase. Here turtle doves nest on the p...
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    17,17 €

  • The Bellesauvage Redemption
    Alan Brookes
    The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. In London’s east end, Jude and Anna, two young lovers born in poverty, struggle to forge a worthwhile future. Jude Croaker’s mother had always told him that his father was a Lord, the Marquess of Melchester. Jude and Anna’s discovery of who his father is leads them both into dishonesty and deceit.Bl...
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    26,59 €

  • Bellesauvage
    Alan Brookes
    In the hierarchal structure that pervaded a stately home in England in the 1930s, a poverty-stricken maid, Jane Hennessey, extorts money from her employer, Lady Caroline Melchester. Caroline’s affair with her employee, Adam Brownlow, has consequences that changes lives forever. Charlotte’s last words implore her brother Adam to reconcile with Lady Caroline. His grief obscures h...
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    15,46 €