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Author : Daisy Wood
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008402310
The world is at war. And time is running out...
Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145164941X
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
Author : Daisy Wood
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780008444631
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857732846
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Author : Paula Brackston
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466884118
The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston’s The Little Shop of Found Things was called “a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments” (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora’s antique shop. But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared. While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past. This time she'll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?
Author : Matthew J. Kirby
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054532307X
Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . . Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom.Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family -- if she can find it.
Author : Laurie Penman
Publisher : Aztex Corporation
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Clock and watch makers
ISBN : 9780852428252
Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 174253452X
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London’s Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It’s an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age’s downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.
Author : Laurie J. Marks
Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
For ten years, Ash--to the best of her knowledge the last survivor of her family--has tried to forget the ill-fated uprising in which she was a pivotal figure. Learning that her nephew could still be alive, Ash feels compelled to search for him . . . for he may prove to be heir to her family's magical power.
Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439152799
Edie Burchill visits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during World War II, discovering the three elderly sisters of the castle still alive but haunted by the secrets of their past life with their father, a famous children's author.