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  • Beneath the Cypress Tree
    Margaret Pemberton
    A sweeping saga of friends and lovers, set in Crete during the Second World War. ...
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    24,81 €

  • A Season of Secrets
    Margaret Pemberton
    A magnificent tale of romance and war sweeping through the first half of the twentieth century ...
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    29,96 €

  • The Londoners
    Margaret Pemberton
    The first book in The Londoners trilogy ...
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    26,66 €

  • Magnolia Square
    Margaret Pemberton
    1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal.But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry Leon Emmerson, the man she loved, a Londoner like herself, but of mixed race. When old man Harvey, a powerful and wealthy figure in So...
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    21,52 €

  • Rendezvous With Danger
    Margaret Pemberton
    Susan Carter’s idyllic Bavarian holiday was rudely shattered while picnicking on the hillside by the sound of a speeding car, followed by a crash. Looking through her binoculars she saw the occupants leave their wrecked car and then take off in her own small Morris. If only Susan hadn’t read the newspaper account of the murder of a German minister! If only she hadn’t recognized...
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    24,22 €

  • Party in Peking
    Margaret Pemberton
    Olivia Harland is enjoying her stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills fifteen miles from Peking. It is 1900 and the air is heavy with the talk of Boxers, the Chinese rebels who are driving the Europeans from China.Adam Ross is a doctor in the Northern Provinces. His Chinese wife has been brutally murdered in a Boxer attack, and he is leaving Peking after depositing h...
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    24,18 €

  • Vengeance in the Sun
    Margaret Pemberton
    A broken love affair takes Lucy Matthews to the Villa d’Este as governess to the six-year-old Danielle Van de Naude. But instead of a refuge Lucy finds she has entered a world of intrigue and fear. Why did Danielle’s previous governess die? Is someone trying to kill her too? Determined to find out, Lucy encounters death and murder as Danielle is kidnapped to thwart her father’s...
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    24,27 €

  • Tapestry of Fear
    Margaret Pemberton
    Alison Russell’s holiday is rudely shattered by gunfire when Basque separatists try to smuggle arms into the quiet fishing village in which she is staying.Accompanied only by Miss Daventry, a tough old English eccentric who fought in the Spanish Civil war, Alison reluctantly goes to the aid of Jose and Luis Villada.It is a mission of mercy that turns into a nightmare.Miss Daven...
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    24,32 €

  • The Guilty Secret
    Margaret Pemberton
    Scratch the veneer of opulence at the ’Enclave’, a cluster of villas bought for the movie star Rosalind by her millionaire husband, and a reality of fear, frustration, guilt and love betrayed glimmer from beneath. Rosalind’s cousin Jenny is there to fight her despair over killing a woman and child in a car accident. The stranger Jonathan is burdened by some darkness in his past...
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    24,32 €

  • Lion of Languedoc
    Margaret Pemberton
    Accused of witchcraft and hunted by Louis XIV’s fanatical Inquisitor, Marietta Riccardi is only rescued from being burned alive by the intervention of Léon de Villeneuve - the Lion of Languedoc. Small wonder that she falls in love with him! Yet Léon is on his way to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elise, and to him Marietta is nothing but a tiresome peasant girl . . . beautiful...
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    24,22 €

  • Flight to Verechenko
    Margaret Pemberton
    Lady Catherine Davencourt is heartbroken when her fiancé is murdered, so she is doubly horrified when the disreputable Dominic, the new Marquis of Clare, offers to marry his brother’s bereaved fiancée.Her only escape lies in disguising herself as a governess and fleeing to a position with a Russian family. But on arrival in St Petersburg, she finds that Dominic too has fled Eng...
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    24,32 €

  • Devil’s Palace
    Margaret Pemberton
    In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is the dazzling casino at Monte Carlo.To the young and beautiful Charlotte Grainger, humble companion to Princess Natalya, one figure stands out above Sarah Bernhardt, the Prince of Wales and the crowned heads of Europe - Count Sandor Karolyi, the man referred to as the Devil’s Spawn.Can...
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    27,80 €

  • African Enchantment
    Margaret Pemberton
    ’The Nile, the white fountains of the Nile. . .’Her father’s last words haunt Harriet Latimer long after she has been rescued from the Nubian desert which they had been attempting to cross. Her rescuer, the insolent and devastatingly handsome Raoul Beauvais, is a French explorer and geographer with the same objective - to find the source of the Nile in Africa. Despite Harriet’s...
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  • The Mystery of Saligo Bay
    Margaret Pemberton
    Miranda Taylor drowns in Saligo Bay. Was it an accident - or suicide - or murder?Who is the mysterious Pete Mackay and why did Miranda say he would be able to explain everything?Sally Craig, her friend, determines to find out, and her quest leads her into a mesh of intrigue and danger, love and hate. ...
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    24,22 €

  • Moonflower Madness
    Margaret Pemberton
    ’But I don’t hate Chung King!’ Gianetta cried passionately. ’I love it. I love the temples and pagodas and the plum blossom and the junks on the river. What I hate is only being able to see these things from a distance. I want to visit the temples. I want to walk out on the hills beneath the plum trees. I want to enjoy China, not be protected from it!’Beneath the light of the m...
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    27,66 €

  • The Four of Us
    Margaret Pemberton
    Four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day of school in 1962. Artemis is the daughter of a self-made man; Geraldine is from an upper-class family; Kiki’s father is a doctor and Primmie is a scholarship girl. They are inseparable, and when they leave school and move into a flat together it seems perfect. But it doesn’t take long for their illusions a...
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    26,79 €

  • Never Leave Me
    Margaret Pemberton
    June 1944 in occupied France, and the embattled coast of Normandy anxiously awaits the Allied invasion.Lisette de Valmy - just eighteen years old and an ardent member of the Resistance, she is torn between loyalty to the Cause and her love for one man.Dieter Meyer - a German officer, handsome and courageous, he must fight for his country and for his future with Lisette.Greg Der...
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    26,93 €

  • A Multitude of Sins
    Margaret Pemberton
    A huge saga - of a world destroyed by war - and a woman made triumphant by love.Since she was ten Elizabeth had been forced to give way to the men in her life. First her father, a lonely, selfish widower who needed his daughter as his companion, then Adam, her middle-aged husband, who carried her off to the brittle world of Hong Kong society, ignoring the burning musical talent...
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    30,06 €

  • White Christmas In Saigon
    Margaret Pemberton
    They were girls of the 60s - as unlike each other as it was possible to be. Abbra - the quiet, lovely, Californian college girl - reared to a life of good behaviour and doing the right thing. She was swept off her feet into a whirlwind marriage before she had time to grow up. She never really got to know her husband before he was shipped out to fight the Vietcong.Serena was an ...
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    29,57 €

  • Forever
    Margaret Pemberton
    In the summer swelter of New Orleans, society girls talk of eligible young men, and of whom they will marry.For Augusta Lafayette, only the scandalous Beauregard Clay will do. He is years older than she - and dangerous by all accounts. But Gussie wants to make him hers - forever.How was she to know that the ritual she performed was not the joke her friends said it was? How was ...
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  • Forget-Me-Not Bride
    Margaret Pemberton
    In the Alazkan Klondike, at the height of the gold-rush, respectable women were thin on the ground and the San Franciscan based Peabody Marriage Bureau did a roaring trade despatching mail-order brides to women-starved stampeders.When half-Irish Lilli Stullen boarded the S.S. Senator as a Peabody bride, she did so not because she was hungry for a gold-rich husband but because i...
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  • The Flower Garden
    Margaret Pemberton
    To tell a patient they are about to die is never the easiest of tasks. When the patient is thirty-five, a woman and exceptionally beautiful, the task is even harder.In the winter of 1934 Nancy Leigh Cameron learns that she has only one more year to live. She is famous, sought-after, and living a life of deep inner loneliness. Her husband, Senator Jack Cameron, is cold and self-...
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    26,86 €

  • An Embarrassment of Riches
    Margaret Pemberton
    ’Here she is!’ Alexander was shouting. ’This is your new daughter-in-law! An Irish peasant . . . An illegitimate . . . illiterate . . . Irish peasant!’1860: Alexander Karolyis, only son of the wealthiest entrepreneur in New York, spends most of his adolescence battling within his father. Nothing he does is considered correct. The girl he loves is highly unsuitable, his behaviou...
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    30,22 €

  • Yorkshire Rose
    Margaret Pemberton
    Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World War Bradford, Rose’s maternal grandfather, Caleb Rimmington, is one of Bradford’s wealthiest mill owners and her father is a highly talented tapestry designer. Laurence Sugden’s artistic talent is not put to use at Rimmington’s Mill, however, for Caleb, disappointed in his daughter’s marriage to a mere work...
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    27,66 €

  • Silver Shadows, Golden Dreams
    Margaret Pemberton
    It’s not every child who is named after a motor car, and when little Daisy Ford discovers she’s been abandoned by her mother, she resolves to put the name - and her unhappy years at the convent orphanage - behind her for ever.Quite unaware of her haunting beauty, frighteningly innocent of the harsh ways of the outside world, Daisy makes her way to Hollywood, determined to becom...
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  • Zadruga
    Margaret Pemberton
    In the stormy turmoil of old Sarajevo, their passionate story began . . .In Belgrade, in the balmy spring of 1914, neither of the royally related Karageorgevich sisters had the slightest presentiment of disaster. Seventeen-year-old Natalie was enjoying the danger and secrecy of friendship with young nationalists, eager to free their lands from Habsburg domination. Katerina, her...
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    26,70 €

  • A Many-Splendoured Thing
    Margaret Pemberton
    What is holding together this peculiar band of pioneers? Polly Kirkham is an orphan who was brought up by the Mormons. Now, in the bitter winter of 1846, she is part of their small band of pioneers struggling westward to the Rocky Mountains. It is here that they meet Major Dart Richards of the US Cavalry. The Major intrigues her - he’s a misfit like Polly, who has never been ab...
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    24,25 €