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  • A STRANGE WORLD
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'Byron only had to come, and to be seen, in order to conquer.'At twenty-seven, Lady Caroline Lamb reads the story of a young aristocrat's strange journey through unknown and barbaric parts of Europe in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and declares her opinion that the author would certainly be 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know.'A few weeks later she actually meets him, and be...
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    18,73 €

  • Jarvisfield
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two young men, while loving only one.Lachlan Macquarie Junior, rich and golden, and the heir to his famous father’s estate, is the joy of his mothe...
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    20,45 €

  • BY EASTERN WINDOWS
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A Stand-Alone Novel - also Book One of The Macquarie Series 'Fabulous and heartbreaking ... fresh and authentic in every detail ... it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye’s 'The Far Pavilions' - Dr Aileen Keegan. Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all rac...
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    18,04 €

  • THE FAR HORIZON
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A stand-alone novel, and also the second novel in The Macquarie SeriesAs a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing.A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives Lachlan surpri...
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    18,20 €

  • NO MOON AT MIDNIGHT
    Gretta Curran Browne
    From Venice to Ravenna and on to Pisa and Genoa, Lord Byron's journey through life and Italy continues. But now he is a man sincerely in love with only one woman, living in a quasi-domesticated happiness with her;  until his own nation of Britain makes a political request of him – insisting he is the only man who can do it – and so once again he courageously dons the red mi...
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    18,37 €

  • NO MOON AT MIDNIGHT
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Two people - married unhappily to others - but desperately in love with each other, living in a time when wedlock was a padlock for life, with no opening key.For Lord Byron, Teresa Guiccioli is not his only desperate love; he also loves Italy, and cares for the Italian people now under the crushing rule of Austria. Can he fight the Austrians with scathing poetry, or join the s...
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    18,89 €

  • ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'Good night-or rather, morning. It is four, and the dawn gleams over the Grand Canal and unshadows the Rialto. I must to bed; up all night - but, ’it’s life, though, damme, it’s life!’ 'An Englishman in Italy, Lord Byron’s life in Venice is full of fun, laughter, and devil-may-care romancing - until he meets his last and truest love, the eighteen-year-old Teresa Gamba Guiccioli...
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    19,22 €

  • ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'Good night—or rather, morning. It is four, and the dawn gleams over the Grand Canal, and unshadows the Rialto. I must to bed; up all night — but, 'it's life, though, damme, it's life!' 'An Englishman in Italy, Lord Byron's life in Venice is full of fun, laughter, and devil-may-care romancing – until he meets his last and truest love, the eighteen-year-old T...
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    23,76 €

  • A Strange World
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'Byron only had to come, and to be seen, in order to conquer.'At twenty-seven, Lady Caroline Lamb reads the story of a young aristocrat’s strange journey through unknown and barbaric parts of Europe in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and declares her opinion that the author would certainly be 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know.'A few weeks later she actually meets him, and becomes ob...
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    19,36 €

  • A MAN OF NO COUNTRY
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Having left England behind him, Lord Byron arrives on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont. Four young people seeking a new life.All are brought to life in that happy and haunted summer of true friendship, love, and story-telling; when during a period of stormy weather over the Alps, Mary writes...
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    19,18 €

  • A Runaway Star
    Gretta Curran Browne
    The Boy ... The Man ... The LegendWith the instant success of his brilliant new works, The Corsair and Lara, Lord Byron’s literary fame as a poet of stature has spread to all parts of America and throughout Continental Europe. Mary Chaworth still invades Byron thoughts, but two other women now seek to move her completely out of his way - Miss Annabella Milbanke, who has now tur...
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    19,03 €

  • A World Apart
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A WORLD APART: An Epic Novel From Ireland’s Past The Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins. Now a close friend of Robert Emmet, Michael does everything in his power to help the young aristocrat succeed in his revolutionary aims, but traitors abound everywhere, attempting to bring down both young men....
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    18,23 €

  • A MAN OF NO COUNTRY
    Gretta Curran Browne
    The Man ... The Poet ... The LegendHaving left England behind him, Lord Byron arrives on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont. Four young people seeking a new life.All are brought to life in that happy and haunted summer of true friendship, love, and story-telling; when during a period of stormy...
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    15,78 €

  • Jarvisfield
    Gretta Curran Browne
    FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED & BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF 'TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS'A STAND ALONE NOVEL - and Book 3 of The Macquarie Series.A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two ...
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    18,12 €

  • The Wayward Son
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'BROWNE HAS A TALENT FOR DRAWING US INTO HER CHARACTERS AND SITUATiONS' - Irish News. Set in the mid 19th century, on the beautiful Island of Mull, the largest of Scotland’s Western Isles, on the estate of Jarvisfield owned by Lachlan Macquarie Jnr - a young man deeply unhappy with his lot in life. In love with Beth Jarvis - the young girl of mixed blood whom he had believed wo...
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    18,09 €

  • A Strange Beginning
    Gretta Curran Browne
    THE BOY - THE MAN - THE LEGEND -- Covering his earliest years to the age of twenty-three -, this fascinating novel goes 'behind the screen' to tell the private and personal story of the most iconic young man of his time - Lord Byron - whose charisma, beauty and literary genius helped him to overcome personal difficulties and rise from obscurity to become Britain’s first superst...
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    18,91 €

  • Mad, Bad, and Delightful To Know
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Living amongst the richest people of the highest strata of London Society and being fallen over by its glamorous women, Lord Byron, the 'Idol Poet' of his time, has never quite got over the raw emotions of his unrequited love for his country cousin Mary Chaworth.Until they meet again, and Mary finds new hope for a happier life with the man she had once rejected as a teenage boy...
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    19,44 €

  • Tread Softly On My Dreams
    Gretta Curran Browne
    WINNER OF READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL AWARDAN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND’S PAST'We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I learned of our part in that struggle I felt shame. I think the whole world should know about young men like Tone and Robert Emmet. Oscar-winning Actor, COLIN FIRTH, Sunday Times MagazineThe Emmets are Protestants, belonging to ...
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    20,28 €

  • Fire On The Hill
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Michael Dwyer was born, cradled and then grew from boy to man under the shade of the Wicklow Hills. He knows every inch of them - the secret streams to quench a man’s thirst, the wild game to keep away hunger, the wood in excess to burn, and the sheltering caves. And then, in the historic year of 1798 he comes to know love.When Michael Dwyer first dances with Mary Doyle on the ...
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    19,40 €

  • MAD,BAD, AND DELIGHTFUL TO KNOW
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Living amongst the richest people of the highest strata of London Society and being fallen over by its glamorous women, Lord Byron, the 'Idol Poet' of his time, has never quite got over the raw emotions of his unrequited love for his country cousin Mary Chaworth.Until they meet again, and Mary finds new hope for a happier life with the man she had once rejected as a teenage boy...
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    18,78 €

  • A STRANGE BEGINNING
    Gretta Curran Browne
    He was later to become known as 'The most beautiful and most famous man in England' — but not yet...Beginning when he is a boy of ten years old, we join George Gordon when he is living a miserable life with his manic Scottish mother in a few rented rooms above a shop in Aberdeen; unaware that his true surname is not Gordon, and that his true heritage is with the English aristoc...
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    18,41 €

  • A RUNAWAY STAR
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Book 4 of the Byron SeriesWith the instant success of his brilliant new works, The Corsair and Lara, Lord Byron's literary fame as a poet of stature has spread to all parts of America and throughout Continental Europe.Mary Chaworth still invades Byron's thoughts, two other women now seek to move her completely out of his way — Miss Annabella Milbanke, who has now turned...
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    18,47 €

  • A World Apart
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A WORLD APART: An Epic Novel From Ireland's Past - The Michael Dwyer Story continues... - (Book 3 of THE LIBERTY TRILOGY) The Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland beginsA COMPLETE STAND-ALONE NOVEL and Book 3 Of THE LIBERTY TRILOGYFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR of TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS GRETTA CURRAN BR...
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    24,00 €

  • Tread Softly On My Dreams
    Gretta Curran Browne
    “We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I did learn of the part we played in that struggle, I felt shame. The world should know about young men like Tone and Robert Emmet.”-------Oscar-winning actor COLIN FIRTH (Sunday Times Magazine 2012)   AN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND’S PAST (BOOK #1 in THE LIBERTY TRILOGY)  The book some critics are calling 'TH...
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    23,28 €

  • Fire On The Hill
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A COMPLETE STAND-ALONE NOVEL and also Book #2  of THE LIBERTY TRILOGY)Gretta Curran Browne’s books have been internationally published in translation throughout Europe and Japan and China.***Michael Dwyer was born, cradled and then grew from boy to man under the shade of the Wicklow Hills. He knows every inch of them - the secret streams to quench a man's thirst, the wild g...
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    23,92 €

  • The Far Horizon
    Gretta Curran Browne
    Book Two in THE MACQUARIE SERIESA stand-alone novel, and also the second novel in The Macquarie SeriesAs a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing.A firm hand is needed, bu...
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    20,56 €

  • By Eastern Windows
    Gretta Curran Browne
    “Fabulous and heartbreaking … fresh and authentic in every detail …  it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye’s `The Far Pavilions’ – Dr Aileen Keegan.Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all races, By Eastern Windows is the story of a young British soldier, ...
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    20,39 €

  • The Wayward Son
    Gretta Curran Browne
    'BROWNE HAS A TALENT FOR DRAWING US INTO HER CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS' - Irish News Set in the mid 19th century, on the beautiful Island of Mull, the largest of Scotland’s Western Isles, on the estate of Jarvisfield owned by Lachlan Macquarie Jnr – a young man deeply unhappy with his lot in life.In love with Beth Jarvis – the young girl of mixed blood whom he had believed woul...
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    20,48 €