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  • Fifty-First State
    Hilary Bailey
    It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs, repressive measures have been brought in by the power-hungry Government which fall especially hard on British Muslims. Global security is also at risk when an election in Iraq brings in a fundamentalist gover...
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    23,06 €

  • Polly Put the Kettle on
    Hilary Bailey
    Polly Kops is living with her husband, a hero of the alternative society and her twin daughters in a run-down house in the then-seedy area near Portobello Road. Her older, illegitimate son is being reared by her mother. She does not know who her father was. An old lover returns -. In an atmosphere of sex, drugs and rock ’n roll, secrets are revealed. ...
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  • Mrs Mulvaney
    Hilary Bailey
    Christmas at the Trents would demonstrate, not by design of course, for me, the outlander, loutish fellow from the North, what life could be like, should be like and, for friends and connections of the Trents, always would be like. ...
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    19,77 €

  • The Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes
    Hilary Bailey
    In this pastiche of Sherlock Holmes we find Sherlock’s sister Charlotte to have superior genius, wit and charm with no fewer crimes to solve with the inimitable assistance of Mary Watson. ...
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    19,55 €

  • The Cry from Street to Street
    Hilary Bailey
    "They call London the Great Whore, and no wonder, seeing so many of her daughters are practising her trade there", says Mary Kelly, who returns to London in the summer of 1888. This is a story of London’s Victorian underworld and of the Ripper’s last victim - Mary Kelly. ...
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    19,83 €

  • Connections
    Hilary Bailey
    Two stories about romance on the rocks, served with a twist of intrigue. Connections follows Fleur Stockley’s fight to rebuild her life and business after her boyfriend bankrupts her company and dumps her. Her success comes at a high price as she is drawn into a world of deceit and corruption.Coulter borrows from the Montagues and the Capulets as English heiress Chauncey F...
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    21,83 €

  • All the Days of My Life
    Hilary Bailey
    A child of the slums, murderer’s widow, and convicted prostitute, Mary Waterhouse rises from her sordid beginnings in London’s underworld to become the wife of a liberal politician - with a shocking secret of his own. ...
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    31,44 €

  • After the Cabaret
    Hilary Bailey
    In 1940, Sally Bowles, that spirited character from Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, decides to leave her baby daughter with her parents in the country and return to London. There, despite the Blitz, she is determined to live life to the full. Moreover, she wants to find the love of her life, the elusive Theo.Despite Theo’s absence, Sally cuts swathes across...
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    20,66 €

  • Elizabeth and Lily
    Hilary Bailey
    Spanning 30 years from 1886 to 1917, this novel follows the lives of two women from different ends of the social scale. They are reunited as adults and find that their friendship helps them through the bitterness and cruelty of war, and the legacies of their own childhoods. ...
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    25,07 €

  • As Time Goes by
    Hilary Bailey
    Polly Kops lives in a charming part of West London, in a big house on a lovely garden square, with her lover and three daughters. From the outside, she looks to be living an ideal life, but upon closer inspection, it’s easy to see that Polly’s life is far from perfection: the bills haven’t been paid in months; the phone has been cut off; her lover is a useless ca...
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    18,66 €

  • A Stranger to Herself
    Hilary Bailey
    London 1991. Journalist Kate Higgins is researching the life of Violet Levine, a woman who dragged herself up from shop girl to MP. Kate’s own life becomes entangled with her subject, but as she begins to find the real Violet behind the legend, violent threats and danger emerge. ...
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    27,28 €

  • Miles and Flora
    Hilary Bailey
    In this sequel to Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, as Flora prepares herself for a ball held by the parents of her fiancé, she’s startled to see in the mirror a young man standing behind her. She is alarmed to learn that no one else had seen the man, and after several more sightings, she realizes that it is the ghost of her dead brother, Miles. ...
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    20,87 €

  • Mrs Rochester
    Hilary Bailey
    Have you ever wondered what happened after Jane found Mr Rochester, blinded and crippled by the fire that destroyed Thornfield Hall? After the death of his wife freed him to marry his young love, and the destruction of his home and estate forced the two of them to start life anew?Hilary Bailey answers these questions and brings in a plot of her own with this sequel to the Bront...
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    19,70 €

  • In Search of Love, Money & Revenge
    Hilary Bailey
    Melanie, Vanessa and Annie have all been betrayed by men - and Melanie is only 13. One day the two abandoned wives and the runaway girl vow the future will bring them love, money and revenge. This is a novel of the ’90s, in which deceit, comedy and tragedy intermingle in modern London. ...
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    24,13 €

  • Hannie Richards
    Hilary Bailey
    Hannie leads a double life, one as a wife and mother in a Devon manor house, and the other as an International smuggler.In this sharp and witty pastiche of the worlds of John Buchan and Rider Haggard, our heroine brings back cures for cancer from the Brazilian jungle, takes a small child across war-torn Chad, and steals the vital papers which restores a Black family’s righ...
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    19,71 €

  • Cassandra
    Hilary Bailey
    Hilary Bailey re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this novel she escapes to a farm in Thessaly, and writes her own account of the fall of Troy.On a quiet farm in ancient Greece, an aging widow sits down to write her story. Now that the war is over, and has been for ye...
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    23,97 €