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  • The Standing Stone on the Moor
    Allie Cresswell
    Yorkshire, 1845.Folklore whispers that they used to burn witches at the standing stone on the moor. When the wind is easterly, it wails a strange lament. History declares it was placed as a marker, visible for miles-a signpost for the lost, directing them towards home.Forced from their homeland by the potato famine, a group of itinerant Irish refugees sets up camp by the stone....
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    15,37 €

  • Salad Days
    Allie Cresswell
    'My earliest memory is of you, Arthur. We were children, running across the garden at Granny’s house. The sun on your hair made it look like copper wire. Then you stopped, and I cannoned into you. We both went headlong into the rockery. It was 1964, the summer before I started school, so I was nearly five. You would have been just three. It’s strange, isn’t it? That my first me...
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    15,76 €

  • The Hoarder’s Widow
    Allie Cresswell
    Suddenly-widowed Maisie sets out to clear her late husband’s collection; wonky furniture and balding rugs, bolts of material for upholstery projects he never got round to, other people’s trash brought home from car boot sales and rescued from the tip. The hoard is endless, stacked into every room in the house, teetering in piles along the landing and forming a scree up the stai...
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    13,06 €

  • About Self-publishing. An Essential Guide for New Authors.
    Allie Cresswell
    You have a story to tell. But how should you begin?Or maybe you’ve written your book already; what should you do now?What choices do you have for getting published?They say everyone has at least one book in them, and thousands of people like you are exploring the possibility of getting their book written and published.Sixteen years ago I was in the same boat. But in the process...
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    14,34 €

  • The Widow’s Weeds
    Allie Cresswell
    One evening, Viola goes missing.The explanation-a visit to her son-seems doubtful and her women friends’ messages go unanswered. A spiky, caustic woman, Viola’s heavy drinking makes her tiresome company, but they know nothing of her troubled past.Yet, Maisie misses Viola. Recently, their shared love of gardening has almost blunted Viola’s barbs, and Maisie is much in need of a ...
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    14,44 €

  • The Cottage on Winter Moss
    Allie Cresswell
    Burned-out author Dee needs fresh inspiration. Impetuously, she abandons London and her good-for-nothing boyfriend to go wherever her literary quest takes her. Journey’s end is a remote village on the shores of a wild estuary, overshadowed by a ruined pele tower. She rents Winter Cottage and waits for a story to emerge.The bleak beauty of the whispering dunes, the jacquard of c...
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    19,75 €

  • Mrs Bates of Highbury
    Allie Cresswell
    Thirty years before the beginning of ’Emma’ Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, almost entirely silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen’s fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed - but ready to love again. She is the lynch-pin of Highbury society until the appalling Mrs Winwood arrives, very determined to hold sway over that ordered li...
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    15,44 €

  • Dear Jane
    Allie Cresswell
    Winner of an ’Honourable Mention’ award in the Readers’ Favourite competition and recipient of the coveted One Stop Fiction Five Star Award.The final instalment of the Highbury trilogy, Dear Jane recounts events hinted at but never actually described in Jane Austen’s Emma; the formative childhood years of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, their meeting in Weymouth and the agony...
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    20,81 €

  • Tall Chimneys
    Allie Cresswell
    A novel of love, loneliness and loyalty. Readers are staying up all night to read this story of a British woman and the stately home which is her fortress and her prison.Considered a troublesome burden, Evelyn Talbot is banished by her family to their remote country house. Tall Chimneys is hidden in a damp and gloomy hollow. It is outmoded and inconvenient but Evelyn is determi...
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    20,79 €

  • The House in the Hollow
    Allie Cresswell
    The Talbots are wealthy. But their wealth is from ’trade’. With neither ancient lineage nor title, they struggle for entrance into elite Regency society. Finally, aided by an impecunious viscount, they gain access to the drawing rooms of England’s most illustrious houses.Mrs Talbot intends her daughter Jocelyn to marry well, to eliminate the stain of the family’s ignoble beginn...
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    20,10 €

  • The Lady in the Veil
    Allie Cresswell
    What secrets hide beneath the veil? When her mother departs for a tour of the continent, Georgina is sent from the rural backwaters to stay with her cousin, George Talbot, in London. The 1835 season is at its height, but Georgina is determined to attend neither balls nor plays, and to eschew Society. She hides her face beneath an impenetrable veil. Her extraordinary appearance ...
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    19,61 €

  • The Lady in the Veil
    Allie Cresswell
    What secrets hide beneath the veil? When her mother departs for a tour of the continent, Georgina is sent from the rural backwaters to stay with her cousin, George Talbot, in London. The 1835 season is at its height, but Georgina is determined to attend neither balls nor plays, and to eschew Society. She hides her face beneath an impenetrable veil. Her extraordinary appearance ...
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    14,66 €

  • Crossings
    Allie Cresswell
    Previously published as Lost Boys, this quartet of over-layering stories introduces four strangers. The only thing they have in common is their dull English town and the unusual heatwave that broils its lack-lustre streets and wilting parks. They and their separate stories are drawn violently together when a young boy pulls them into the maelstrom of his fate.Each is at a cross...
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    19,47 €

  • The House in the Hollow
    Allie Cresswell
    **The new novel by the best-selling author Allie Cresswell****A prequel to the award-winning Tall Chimneys**The Talbots are wealthy. But their wealth is from ’trade’. With neither ancient lineage nor title, they struggle for entrance into elite Regency society. Finally, aided by an impecunious viscount, they gain access to the drawing rooms of England’s most illustrious houses....
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    15,04 €

  • Dear Jane
    Allie Cresswell
    The final instalment of the Highbury trilogy, Dear Jane narrates the history of Jane Fairfax, recounting the events hinted at but never actually described in Jane Austen’s Emma.Orphaned Jane seems likely to be brought up in parochial Highbury until adoption by her papa’s old friend Colonel Campbell opens to her all the excitement and opportunities of London. The velvet path of ...
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    21,15 €