The Gustav Sonata - format ePub

"Iron Robin combines everyday childhood themes with a pinch of fantasy, all brilliantly visualised by Jones’s expressive artwork" - The GuardianFrom an acclaimed voice in literature comes a children's...

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive...

A masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning and bestselling Rose Tremain.Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American for whom Edward Vlll abdicated the throne, is on her deathbed in...

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin....

From the author of The Gustav SonataWhen Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly...

'The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.' John Julius NorwichIn the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra....

What is the secret to true friendship? Is it really love’s quieter relation or something stronger and more profound? And where does the line between the two lie? Rose Tremain looks at two unlikely lifelong...

‘One of the great imaginative creations in English literature’ Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert...

From the author of The Gustav SonataAt the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' So begins...

From the author of The Gustav SonataFat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has...

From the author of The Gustav SonataAt the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte,...

From the author of The Gustav SonataAfter the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is...

The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming Robert Merivel...When...

'THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised, imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of landscape and character, emotion and memory' The TimesIn a silent valley in southern...

'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' ObserverA wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe...

À six ans, tandis que l’Angleterre s’incline devant le roi George VI décédé, Mary Ward, fille d’un fermier du Suffolk, comprend que, malgré les apparences, elle n’est pas une petite fille. Dès lors, elle...

Marianne Clifford, la fille adolescente d’un militaire rugueux et de son épouse superficielle, tombe « absolument et pour toujours » amoureuse de Simon Hurst, un garçon de dix-huit ans que son intelligence...

Londres, 1850. Par une nuit glaciale, un bébé est abandonné devant les grilles d’un parc. Sauvée par un jeune policier, la petite fille est emmenée à l’hospice des Enfants trouvés. Après des années d’un...

Robert Mérivel, médecin renommé et ami du roi Charles II d’Angleterre, n’est désormais plus un jeune homme en âge de batifoler à sa guise. Désespéré à cette idée, il se rend en France pour tenter de se...

Juste avant que n’éclate la Seconde  Guerre mondiale,  dans un petit village suisse, deux jeunes garçons vont se lier d’amitié. Gustav, à  l’enfance difficile, est orphelin de père. Celui-ci, un policier...

Dans ce récit charmant, intime, souvent émouvant, l’auteur retrace ses plus jeunes années jusqu’à ce qu’à l’âge de dix-sept  ans elle s’émancipe de sa famille et vienne vivre à Paris.Son enfance n’a pas...

Le mas Lunel, une vieille ferme de pierre isolée dans une vallée silencieuse. Aramon Lunel, son propriétaire, est un alcoolique invétéré hanté par un passé de violence qui l’a réduit à un état d’hébétude,...

Robert Merivel, fils d’un gantier, étudiant en médecine rondelet et paillard, voit son destin bouleversé lorsqu’il est appelé à la cour du roi Charles II d’Angleterre. Il se glisse alors sans difficulité...

Bath, 1865. Jane, une jeune infirmière renommée pour ses talents extraordinaires, est convaincue qu’un autre destin se révèlera un jour à elle. Pourtant, lorsqu’elle se trouve écartelée entre une liaison...

Le livre est constitué de 5 nouvelles : Immobilisée dans un appartement à Londres à la suite d’un terrible accident de voiture, Beth se souvient de sa splendeur passée à Paris et à Saint-Tropez, et de...

'A perfect novel about life's imperfection... Tremain is writing at the height of her inimitable powers...' Kate Kellaway, ObserverWhat is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in...

*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London – a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when she...

McCreedy is forty-six and it's his birthday. His family are there to help him celebrate.Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

Salvatore, a young watchmaker from Italy, moves to London when the king of his hometown decrees that a period of twenty-six years is to be erased from history, never to be mentioned in public again. Since...

Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

"'Give me Harry Potter,' said Voldemort's voice, 'and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded.'"As he climbs...

"There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building… wherever they had murdered…"...

A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble,...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

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"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world, the totalitarian government of Oceania has risen from the ashes. The Party, led by the omnipresent Big Brother, exercises total control over its citizens, suppressing...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...