From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.

 Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War - united against the world.

 Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, which moved him to work as a doctor in the London slums; Clio and Grace, flappers flitting through bohemian Fitzrovia to emerge as literary lion and pioneering Member of Parliament respectively; the music that drowned for Julius the crash of jackboots in thirties Berlin.

 But for herself, Clio remembers a different story. Desperate lies and bitter secrets, hopeless love and careless betrayal, jealous loyalties more like fetters. And above all, the truth about Grace, beautiful, destructive siren at the centre of the circle.

All My Sins Remembered

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl

 In London, on the brink of the Sixties, two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife.

 Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies and a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But, when it comes, stardom is not enough, and the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her.

 Julia choose marriage and Ladyhill, a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then, after the tragedy, she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage and her child.

 Though each has to make her own choices, their friendship - despite the guilt and betrayal - endures over three turbulent decades.

Bad Girls Good Women

Prix du Grand roman

Pays de Galles, 1940.

Jeune mariée, Nerys Watkins quitte la campagne galloise pour accompagner son mari missionnaire affecté en Inde. Alors que la guerre du Cachemire éclate, elle découvre Srinagar, la ville au bord du lac, où les Britanniques habitent de luxueux bateaux et dansent, flirtent et cancanent comme s'il n'y avait pas de guerre. Nerys est entraînée dans une dangereuse amitié et, au moment où elle retrouve son mari, l'innocente épouse galloise n'est plus la même femme.

Des années plus tard, alors que Mair Ellis débarrasse la maison de son père, elle découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d'enfant. Se rendant au Cachemire sur les traces de ses grands-parents, Mair se lance dans une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie.

Ce récit épique mêle secrets de famille, amour sur fond de guerre et liaisons dangereuses. Avec comme toile de fond une évocation vivante et superbement documentée de l'Inde des années 1940, cette saga familiale bouleversante a connu un grand succès populaire et critique outre-Manche.

Le Châle de cachemire

White

An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.

 Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation and proof. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable.

 Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica.

 James Rooker is a man on the run. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Now, there is nowhere further to go. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.

 Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever . if she survives.

Sun at Midnight

La belle conquérante - Occasion

A collection of three stunning ebooks from the author of the runaway bestseller, THE KASHMIR SHAWL.

 MOON ISLAND: On a small stretch of wild coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May, arriving for the summer, feels isolated and resentful. Leonie, next door, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets. Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl. As she immerses herself in the past, she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girl's footsteps.

 SUNRISE: It was a love forbidden but never forgotten. When Harry returned to Wales, Angharad found paradise - despite her father's violent warnings. For she and Harry were in love, untouchable until a shocking revelation drives Angharad to flee, pregnant and penniless, to London. There, she resolves to put the past behind her, joy and heartache alike. But neither time nor success can banish her memories.

 FOLLIES: They were three modern women, who came to Oxford University full of hopes and dreams and would leave forever changed. Helen: shy, quiet and hopelessly in love. Chloe: glamorous and confident, abandoning a high-powered career, obsessively drawn to her philandering English professor. Pansy: stunning heiress and aspiring actress, driven to prove she is more than an irresistible magnet to the men around her. Together for one unforgettable year, they would share a lifetime of emotions and a very special friendship.

Rosie Thomas 3-Book Collection - Moon Island, Sunrise, Follies

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.

 On a small stretch of untamed coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May Duhane, arriving with her father and sister for the summer, feels isolated and resentful.

 Leonie Beam, staying in the neighbouring house with her husband's family, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth Newton, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets.

 Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl, her own age. To unravel its story, she must immerse herself in the past. As she does so, she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girl's footsteps.

Moon Island

From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of friends. They were wild in the 60s; but now they face turning sixty themselves.

 Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.

 To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back.

 When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

Lovers and Newcomers

Ross Thomas (né le 19 février 1926 à Oklahoma City - décédé le 18 décembre 1995 à Santa Monica) est un auteur américain de romans policiers, qui publie aussi sous le pseudonyme de Oliver Bleeck.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Thomas

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