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Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the...
Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit, Lomax's entire world changes - to...
The strange story of Joan of Arc, the obscure peasant girl who became the national saint of France, is retold in this celebrated, classic biography. Saint Joan lives for the reader on every page, as a shepherd girl in a remote part of fifteenth-century rural France,...
The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: 'the great' and 'the little'. Both women were Carmelites, both canonised and both shared the same name. But whilst Teresa of Avila was...
The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Only America still stands protected by a precarious promise of peace from the Reich. Lester and Helen, strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memories of a lost England. When the...
Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness.Evelyn, deeply jealous and...
Ruth Pennistan is a farmer’s daughter, born and brought up in Kent. But her dark hair and eyes belie a forgotten ancestry – a Spanish gypsy grandmother and a passionate inheritance. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women – this book tells their stories. Her grandmother Pepita, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous...
A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to...
Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans.Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate. He is a fixed feature in the eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues and...
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the...
The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional...
CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West's second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the author suddenly changed her mind. This was not because she lacked confidence in her work, but because of the scandal it would have caused.CHALLENGE remained unpublished for...
1942 : Le III? Reich a gagné la guerre en Europe et signé un traité de paix avec les États-Unis. Dans un hôtel au bord du Grand Canyon navigue une foule d’exilés européens ayant fui le conflit et des soldats de l’armée américaine stationnés sur une base toute proche....
Roger Liddiard, jeune et brillant romancier, héros de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, s’installe à Westease, dans la campagne anglaise. Il fait alors la connaissance d’un peintre mondialement connu, d’un professeur à la retraite, du pasteur, de son épouse et de leur...
Quand Peregrine Chase hérite du domaine de Blackboys dans la campagne anglaise, il n’a qu’un désir : le vendre, éponger ses dettes et retourner à sa vie de citadin. Mais alors qu’il découvre la vaste demeure, les rosiers et les paons majestueux qui peuplent les...
« C’est en Égypte qu’Arthur Lomax contracta l’habitude qui, à la suite d’expériences diverses, le conduisit finalement à l’échafaud.En Égypte, la plupart des touristes portent des lunettes bleues. Arthur Lomax suivait cette mode aussi incongrue que prudente. En...
« Adossée à la mort, elle pouvait enfin contempler sa vie. Et pendant ce temps l’air vibrait du bruissement des abeilles. » Lorsque meurt son époux, ancien vice-roi des Indes, Lady Slane, quatre-vingt-huit ans, décide de quitter la demeure familiale pour s’installer...
Les Godavary sont passés maîtres dans l’art de faire disparaître les problèmes sous le tapis. Une habitude que les funérailles du chef du clan, Noble Godavary, viennent mettre à mal. Et pour cause: sa fille Paola, née d’un deuxième lit, sera de la partie. Dominatrice et...
Quand Virginia Woolf, aussi fascinante et au venin aussi meurtrier que cette horreur, la vipère du Gabon (Bitis gabonica) la mord au cœur en lui disant qu’elle « écrit de l’extérieur », sous-entendu qu’il vaudrait mieux qu’elle fasse autre chose, Vita Sackville-West...
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