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  • Dallington Hall 1720-2020
    Marina Oliver
    History of Dallington Hall in Northamptonshire, its owners, residents and village, from 1720 to 2020. ...
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    9,74 €

  • A Marriage for the Earl
    Marina Oliver
    When Peter Stannard inherits a Yorkshire estate from his uncle, he does not expect a proposal of marriage from a lady.Lady MacDonald’s father and Peter’s uncle once planned to unite the estates, until Edward Stannard eloped to Gretna with the Rector’s daughter.Now Edward is dead, so is Lady Macdonald’s husband.And her cousin Gabrielle proves to be a serious rival for Peter’s af...
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    9,50 €

  • Murder on the Beach
    Marina Oliver
    Dodie Fanshaw, escaping from London in January to stay with old Hollywood friends in Barbados, soon becomes involved with the local English and American ex-pat community. Enjoying the weather, the friendships, and learning to sail, she doesn’t expect murder. But tensions are high, old quarrels are renewed, and several have motives but no one has an alibi. Dodie sets out to solv...
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    7,85 €

  • Virginian Lover
    Marina Oliver
    Bella is forced, by her illegitimate half brother Henry, to marry the abusive Edward who is emigrating to the new settlement in Virginia.After a brutal wedding night she escapes, but Henry finds her and forces her to sail on the next ship.While caring for her sick baby brother Toby and his nurse Alice, she is helped by Adam, a wealthy settler already established on a James Rive...
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    10,92 €

  • Lord Patrick’s Heir
    Marina Oliver
    When the Earl of Aylesford is killed in a riding accident, they have to wait for his child to be born. If it’s a boy he will inherit. If not the title goes to Lord Patrick’s brother Martin, but he is in America and has not been heard of for some time. The next heir is cousin Etienne. Then Martin’s wife and son appear, saying Martin is dead. ...
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    14,48 €

  • Mischief in Madeira
    Marina Oliver
    Rivalry in the golfing world leads to desperate measures, and romance. When Dominic Thorn’s business selling golf equipment is threatened by former golfer Keith Livermore he enlists the help of various friends in Madeira. There is Catherine, divorced wife of golfing star Justin O’Brien, her father the Major, concerned when an old army buddy turns up who knows of the Major’s fli...
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    8,01 €

  • Manhattan Magic
    Marina Oliver
    Coming out of the shower in her borrowed apartment, Rezia is confronted by a very angry - but very blond and attractive - young man. She expected her photographic commission in New York to be exciting - but not this exciting!Klaus turns out to live next door. Their quickly developing relationship is threatened by newspaper photographs of him he thinks she has taken. Rezia is lo...
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    4,28 €

  • The Cobweb Cage
    Marina Oliver
    Marigold Smith, born into the small mining town of Hednesford, is devoted to her family, especially the small and delicate Ivy, for whose accident she blames herself. She is determined to try and make life easier for Ivy and her middle sister, Poppy, as well as her hard-working parents. When she is given the chance of going into service in Oxford she meets the wealthy an...
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    20,72 €

  • The Golden Road
    Marina Oliver
    The Golden Road When Josie Shaw's stepfather George dies, and she and her mother Dora are left with nothing but debts. Dora wants Josie to make a good marriage. Josie, however, is strong and independent. George's son Leo, offers Josie a job as a secretary in his Birmingham jewellery factory. Together with her cousin Lizzie, Josie becomes fascinated by the motoring ral...
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    21,08 €

  • The Glowing Hours
    Marina Oliver
    Nell is desperate to escape from her drunken, violent father and the Birmingham slum where they live. This is made possible with the help of Gwyneth, who has fled from her father, a bigoted Welsh preacher. Both want to dance, and at the studio they meet Kitty, wealthy, but neglected by her mother and not knowing who her father is. Together the three friends soon join a c...
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    21,08 €

  • Lord Hugo's Wedding
    Marina Oliver
    The Earl of Winton was a notorious rake at the Court of Charles II, but falls in love with Sophie when he abducts her in mistake for her cousin Phillipa. They plan their wedding, but Sophie and her parents must go home to France, where her grandmother is ill. Strange happenings follow them, and they suspect Hugo's discarded mistress, Kate Trent, and Monsieur de Terville, ...
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    14,16 €

  • Sibylla and the Privateer
    Marina Oliver
    This privateer is not what Sibylla expects! She is in love with her brother Gerard's former friend, Randolph, and meeting him secretly. When she discovers he means to betray Gerard, who is working to help restore Charles II to the throne, he dare not leave her and abducts her, taking her on a fishing boat. They are captured by Josselin, a French Privateer, who takes...
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    14,01 €

  • Lord Hugo's Bride
    Marina Oliver
    Hugo, Earl of Winton, needs a wife and an heir if his weak cousin William and his unpleasant French wife Hortense, with the son who might not be her husband's, is not to succeed him. He decides Phillipa Stannerly will be suitable. She is pretty, and an heiress. Phillipa, in love with Charles, is distraught. Then her French cousin Sophie du Plessis comes to London and pro...
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    14,02 €

  • Chance-met Stranger
    Marina Oliver
    Janie Tempest's idyllic cottage, left to her by her godmother, is being demolished to make way for a new industrial park, and at the last minute the removal company can't do the job of moving her large items. Luckily the men dealing with her neighbour's move are willing to help. The handsome Manuel asks her out for dinner, and then becomes involved in her feckless sister'...
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    6,30 €

  • A Cut Above the Rest
    Marina Oliver
    The second Dodie Fanshaw mystery by Marina Oliver, author of 80+ novels. Dodie's rural peace is shattered, first by a mermaid walking up the lawn from the river Thames, and then by a body near the pool. The body belonged to an author who lived next door. His girlfriend, publisher and agent, ex-lovers and neighbours crowd the garden. But who might have killed this best-sel...
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    10,75 €

  • Count Rupert's Captive
    Marina Oliver
    Their carriage is attacked while on the way to Vienna, and Belle, the only survivor, is taken to the Count's castle. He employs her as companion to his niece, then, by a mixture of threats and promises, asks her to go with him to Vienna where the Congress is meeting, and help him persuade the politicians to return the Tyrol to Austria. ...
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    13,50 €

  • Convict Queen
    Marina Oliver
    Molly Morgan, a Shropshire lass, was transported to the new penal colony at Botany Bay in 1790. She survived with the help of her lovers, and stowed away to come back to England, one of the few convicts to manage this. She was transported a second time. Later, because of her wealth and good works she became known as the Queen of Hunter Valley. ...
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    13,61 €

  • An Earl From India
    Marina Oliver
    How can a disgraced Earl make the most of his return from exile, especially when he is impersonating his half-brother, John, the real Earl? Silas,expects to find a flourishing estate at The Priory and marry an heiress when he returns from a twenty-year exile in India. He is attracted to Fanny, the heiress daughter of a wealthy trader he meets on the homeward-bound ship, b...
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    13,85 €

  • Oh Baby!
    Marina Oliver
    An apparently harmless loss of a contraceptive chemical turns out to be a disaster affecting not only the coalition government and the civil service, who have to cope, but most of the population. It also gives the press unprecedented opportunities for scoops, and for some people who will always find ways to profit. People view the future with varying degrees of horror, deli...
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    11,25 €

  • Lucky for Love
    Marina Oliver
    Can one find love again? Julie's husband was killed in a car smash three years ago.She is bullied into taking a cruise by her sister Susan, who works in the gift shop on the ship. Robert, who lost his fiance just before their wedding, has other things on his mind as he tries to solve the mystery of thefts from passengers. Then Steven, a figure from the past, takes a...
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    6,71 €

  • Mating the Llama
    Marina Oliver
    Lucy, widow of a young pop star, moves to an idyllic country cottage to start a new life. Drowning her sorrows when she is let down by the staid Edward, the latest man in her life, she is unprepared for having Rosa, a llama, invade her kitchen. Is this a mirage? Soon, though, she is drawn into helping Rosa's owner, the charismatic Cas Finlay, who needs to find Rosa a ma...
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    10,98 €

  • Passionate Campaign
    Marina Oliver
    London 1906.Livvy faces several battles. Patients will not accept her as a 'proper' doctor. Politicians will not grant votes to women. And she can never marry Sir James while their beliefs are so different: he thinks letting women vote is wrong, and would never consider allowing a wife to work. Can there be any meeting between their minds? ...
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    11,16 €

  • The Knot Garden
    Marina Oliver
    When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge. Things have been going wrong at the Garden Centre, small irritating mistakes, petty vandalism, and what increasin...
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    13,60 €

  • To a Far Country
    Marina Oliver
    Evicted from their Highland croft, Jamie and Flora Lennox, with their baby daughter and other families of the township, go to Nova Scotia to start a new life. The leaving of the glen is heart-rending, and soon more disasters strike, on the voyage and as they move westwards to find suitable land. Can they survive in this new, raw country? Will they find happiness in thei...
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    14,23 €

  • Wild Catriona
    Marina Oliver
    Catriona's father is lost at sea, and her mother loses the will to live, leaving her with her Uncle, who wants to marry her to a much older, stern newcomer. Cat is determined to escape, and does so with the help of her cousin. But she needs to hide from them all, until she can go to her father's Dutch family in Amsterdam. Expert in fabric printing and making her own dyes,...
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    14,24 €

  • A Murdered Earl
    Marina Oliver
    Luke Peters, French aristocrat, has escaped from the guillotine to England, and needs to protect his sister from vicious revolutionaries while searching for the family jewels. Hoping the Earl of Redditch can help, he becomes the Earl’s valet, then disaster strikes and he might be accused of murder. ...
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    13,66 €

  • Once Bitten
    Marina Oliver
    Judy goes to dog-sit for sister Fay while she and Paul are away. She unexpectedly finds Justin, Paul's cousin, also there. Then her ex-fiancé Mark arrives, angry she has rejected him. And the luscious Sadie moves in next door. Busy trying to establish her business selling greetings cards, preparing for a local craft fair, descended on by her parents, Judy frets at t...
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    8,16 €

  • The Irish Bride
    Marina Oliver
    Brigid is happy working as a companion to Sophia, but knows she will soon have to look for a new position as governess or companion. What she will not accept is marriage to Matthew, Sophia's brother, for she is penniless. Another possibility is suggested when she meets her unknown uncle and aunt and they offer her a home. Can she accept, or would it be a trap from whic...
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    13,80 €

  • A Stratford Jewel
    Marina Oliver
    In 1926 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon burnt down, barely five weeks before the start of the annual Festival. Rosa Greenwood and her sister Celia were devastated. They had small roles in the Festival, hoping it would lead to acting careers. While helping to remove priceless treasures from the theatre Library Rosa met Max Higham, an American architect i...
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    13,96 €

  • Eugenie and the Earl
    Marina Oliver
    Eugenie, orphaned in Switzerland, and working her way home through France to England, is helped by the stranger Hugues. Enjoying London Society, she is worried by the behaviour of her cousin George. Then the Earl of Lyndhurst comes to the rescue. ...
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    13,83 €


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