Bello, 2016. — 227 p. — ASIN B01BBI49UQ I’m not a promiscuous man, and in the seven years of marriage to Harriet I had hardly so much as glanced elsewhere. Certainly I had no straying fancies in Paris. But sometimes you don’t have to look, or even be receptive. The lightning strikes and – God help you – there it is.
Bello, 2016. — 418 p. — ASIN B01BBI6JOA Was it Pearl Friedel’s fault she was beautiful? If she had been plain, William Angell, the self-indulgent solicitor and lover of beautiful things, would never have given her the chance to escape the tedium of everyday life. It was a very satisfactory arrangement – until Little God stepped in. An ambitious boxer with a vicious reputation,...
Bello, 2016. — 415 p. — ASIN B01BBI4ET2 Manchester, 1867. Widowed in mysterious circumstances and compelled to marry again by his domineering father Frederick, Brook Ferguson selects as his new bride the beautiful, strong-willed Cordelia. But after she comes to live with Brook and Frederick, as well as their household of eccentric family members, it isn’t long before Cordelia...
Bello, 2016. — 224 p. — ASIN B01BBHZEKG Where there’s smoke... ...there’s usually an Insurance Agent hurrying to the scene to assess the damage. When Oliver Branwell is sent to investigate a fire at Lowis Manor he finds that things are not all they seem at first glance – or second. In order to protect the woman he loves, Oliver is forced to side-step the rules. And as the...
Bello, 2016. — 252 p. — ASIN B01BBI4M8A When Gene Vanbrugh discovers that a proposed business associate has been murdered he sets out to uncover the truth. His path crosses with that of Anya Stonaris, the beautiful but aloof mistress to a politician with a decidedly murky past, and their meeting acts as a catalyst to a dangerous political adventure. As the relationship between...
Pan Books, 2013. — 391 p. — ISBN: 1447243536 (ISBN13: 9781447243533) The novel that became a classic Hitchcock film. Marnie seems a charming woman, but no one knows her real name or anything about her at all. Now Marnie has walked into a trap. The game is over - or would be - if the man who trapped her hadn't caught himself as well.
Bello, 2016. — 250 p. — ASIN B01CF5X2ZW Winston Graham's memoirs have been consigned to his safe for years. Here, at last, they are shared with his readers in a remarkable book, free of what he called 'the fashionable sins', but rich in charm and anecdote. Memoirs of a Private Man follows the rise of a delicate Manchester lad from the isolation of Cornwall to fame and the...
Bello, 2016. — 188 p. — ASIN B01BBHZIPW The reluctant spy… Spying was repugnant to Mencken – even in wartime – but he had no alternative. He took the assignment. His objective was to attend a conference of Nazi scientists, researchers in germ warfare and poison gas, and report back to London. He was to pick up his orders in Venice. The nightmare, paranoid world of a spy was...
Bello, 2016. — 272 p. — ASIN B01CF5X3CO Half-blinded in the war, Giles Gordon lives in a world which he can only see in varying degrees of darkness. Unable to cross a room with confidence, Gordon has the courage to walk into dangers that a fit man would fear to face... In his own search for peace at the end of the Second World War, Gordon has retreated to the French Riviera....
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015. — 400 p. — (The Poldark Saga #1). — ISBN: 1492622079, ISBN13: 9781492622079. In the first novel in Winston Graham’s hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his beloved Elizabeth. But instead he discovers his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and...
Bello, 2016. — 304 p. — ASIN B01CF5X2Y8 From the acclaimed author of Marnie and the Poldark series comes Stephanie, a novel laced with suspense and surprises. When the beautiful young daughter of a prominent gentleman is found dead, the coroner is naturally reluctant to bring a verdict of suicide. But what he doesn't know was that it was actually murder. Set in Goa, India,...
Bello, 2016. — 176 p. — ASIN B01BBI4IZC Why does disaster so often follow success? This is the question that Philippa Talbot asks herself repeatedly in the dark days that follow her triumph at Covent Garden. On that evening she sees her husband in conversation with Elizabeth Rusman, a young violinist from the orchestra. She discovers that they were once lovers, and she and...
Poldark series, novel 5 A Novel of Cornwall 1794–95. The Black Moon is the enthralling fifth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna...
Bello, 2016. — 235 p. — ASIN B01BBI4BFY In December, 1898, a barquentine was wrecked on the Cornish coast near Falmouth. This is "the forgotten story" of some of the people who came unexpectedly to be passengers in the ship on her last voyage, of their loves and hates, and how a young boy is drawn irrevocably into the centre of a gripping drama.
Bello, 2016. — 412 p. — ASIN B01BBI6MME A life of crime can be very alluring, especially to one who falls between law-abiding respectability and the underworld. For David Abden, a baronet’s nephew who loves fast cars and women, illegitimate opportunities present more than mere temptation, and when the glamour of risk begins to consume his life, Abden is presented with few easy...
Bello, 2016. — 415 p. — ASIN B01BBI6FDU "The canvas is wide, the picture stirring and brilliantly detailed. This is a rich, absorbing tale of a corner of England during hazardous times, and of a full-blooded family" Oxford Times In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England was alert for the revenge that surely had to...
Bello, 2016. — 229 p. — ASIN B01BBI4KVE A chance meeting with a Japanese girl on a Brighton train...A night spent on the Bernina Pass trapped by snow...A terrifying experience during a childhood convalescence... These are a few of the real life incidents which inspired some of Winston Graham’s stories. Lovers of the Poldark Saga will find two evocative Cornish tales amongst his...
Bello, 2016. — 237 p. — ASIN B01BBHZNC0 Why did he do it? The purpose of Philip Turner’s journey to Amsterdam is to investigate the apparent suicide of his bother Grevil. He has not seen him for several years. His enquiries lead him from Holland to Capri in search of a mysterious girl to whom Grevil had written a cryptic farewell note. What part does the shadowy Jack Buckingham...
Bello, 2016. — 291 p. — ASIN B01BBI6GZM Paul Stafford – a brilliant artist, from a home where success is all-important. His dazzling talent shot him to the heights of London. Olive Crayam – Paul’s wife, and a woman destroyed by jealousy of her husband’s talent, and his growing social success. Diana Marnsett – a young society beauty, and the woman behind Paul’s climb to fame....
Pan Books, 2008. — 455 p. — ISBN: 0330463292 (ISBN13: 9780330463294) Cornwall in the 1780s - when powerful forces of revolution and reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he loves is...
Pan Books, 2008. — 521 p. — ISBN: 0330463330 (ISBN13: 9780330463331) Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love. Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry - and her husband - bring her confusion and heartache, despite the...
Pan Books, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0330523716 (ISBN13: 9780330523714) Cornwall, 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. He is to stand trial for the wrecking of two ships. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But Ross Poldark has many powerful enemies.
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 471 p. — ISBN: 0330463403 (ISBN13: 9780330463409) Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottish...
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 546 p. — ISBN: 0330463322 (ISBN13: 9780330463324) Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, the enduring rivalry between George and Ross...
Pan Books, 2011. — 590 p. — ISBN: 0330524259 (ISBN13: 9780330524254) The sixth book in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1795: Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women - the four swans - whose lives touch Ross'...
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 612 p. — ISBN: 0330463306 (ISBN13: 9780330463300) Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliment—his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan still flares—as does the illicit love between Morwenna and Drake,...
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 499 p. — ISBN: 0330463381 (ISBN13: 9780330463386) Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world—one of both love and danger. This novel is set in early 19th-century Cornwall.
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 485 p. — ISBN: 0330463373 (ISBN13: 9780330463379) At Nampara, the Poldark family finds that the new year brings involvement in unexpected ventures. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising—and worrying—news. And Clowance, newly returned from London, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings both joy and heartache.
MacMillan UK, 1996. — 580 p. — ISBN: 0330345036 (ISBN13: 9780330345033) Set in the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is part of the Poldark saga. At the heart of the novel stand Demelza and Ross Poldark, their son, Jeremy, their daughter, Clowance, and the rival family, the Warleggans.
Pan Books (UK), 2011. — 656 p. — ISBN: 0330524178 (ISBN13: 9780330524179) The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer"...
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 688 p. — ISBN: 0330463314 (ISBN13: 9780330463317) Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldark's youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a singer is encouraged by her old flame, Christopher Havergal,...
Bello, 2016. — 215 p. — ASIN B01BBI4JC4 ‘When someone isn’t home when you expect them to be, and when after a decent interval they still don’t turn up, and send no message and have left no note, it’s natural to get anxious. But there’s still a lack of decisive event. Your ears are all the time waiting for the lick of the door, the quick familiar footsteps, and the breathless...
Bello, 2016. — 248 p. — ASIN B01BBI4F3W The story of the Spanish Armada, sent crashing to destruction in stormy seas by English battleships, is one of the most famous and popular of British history. Philip II of Spain’s crusade to conquer Protestant England was the culmination of an undeclared war between the two nations which had simmered for years. The dramatic destruction of...
Bello, 2016. — 290 p. — ASIN B01CF5X2ZM In The Ugly Sister, Winston Graham returns to Cornwall, home to his classic Poldark series. The Napoleonic Wars have ended, the age of steam has dawned. he introduces us to a wealth of memorable characters as Emma Spry tells her fascinating story. One side of her face marred at birth, Emma grows up without affection, her elegant mother on...
Pan Books, 2012. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1447207270 (ISBN13: 9781447207276) Deborah, cultured and intelligent, has been handicapped since childhood. Convinced of her lack of attractiveness, her work has become her life. Leigh, a painter, refuses to be discouraged by her rejections. As Deborah blossoms into a woman in love, she is drawn into a sinister unknown world.
Bello, 2013. — 256 p. — ASIN B00FDQ4LWE Agadir, Morocco, 29th February, 1960 - A motley cast of colorful characters in search of adventure, romance, and refuge descends on the elegant Hotel Saada in Agadir, Morocco, but their lives are suddenly jeopardized by a devastating earthquake. The earthquake lasted just 20 seconds. But 20 seconds is long enough to destroy the Hotel...
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