Anna, a young countess, is forced to flee to England, when revolution tears Russia apart. Here she becomes a housemaid at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. When the Earl returns home from the war, Anna falls hopelessly in love. But Rupert is engaged to  Muriel - and anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks.

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An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters. It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson's highly colourful, joyous adventure. This 15th anniversary edition includes a forward by Lauren St John, author of The White Giraffe. Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.

Journey to the River Sea

Ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be quite so unusual. Her life back in England with her suffragette mother and liberated aunts certainly couldn't be called normal, but buried deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, Ellen discovers an eccentric world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experimental dancers and a tortoise on wheels. And then there is the particularly intriguing, enigmatic, and very handsome Marek, part-time gardener and fencing teacher. Ellen is instantly attracted to the mysterious gardener, but Hitler's Reich is already threatening their peaceful world, and only when she discovers Marek's true identity and his dangerous mission does Ellen realize the depth of her feelings for him - and the danger their newfound love faces in the shadow of war.

Un chant pour été

The Morning Gift is a beautiful, classic romance from much loved author, Eva Ibbotson. Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever.When Hitler's forces invade, Ruth's family flees to London, but she is unable to get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits Ruth and, in an effort to bring her back to London, he offers a marriage of convenience. As Ruth throws herself into her London life, Quin begins to fall desperately in love with her. Things are further complicated by the arrival of Heini . . .

Les Matins d'Emeraude

Pas question d'avoir un chien à la maison ! C'est ce que les parents de Hal ont toujours dit. Pourtant, pour son anniversaire, son père l'emmène à l'agence "Chiens pour tous". Fou de joie, le garçon choisit Flocon, une boule de poils toute blanche. Quand il découvre que l'animal a juste été loué pour le week-end, il décide de s'enfuir avec lui. Un voyage mouvementé commence alors, en compagnie d'une petite fille pleine d'astuce et de cinq chiens sans maître.

Un chien pour toujours

Un château magnifique, mais négligé au point de tomber en ruine, des enfants plus ou moins livrés à eux-mêmes, une bande de professeurs aux méthodes des plus farfelues... : voilà ce que découvre Ellen, fraîchement débarquée de son Angleterre natale, à son arrivée à l’école de musique, théâtre et danse de Hallendorf, en Autriche. Hélas, alors qu'elle trouve bientôt sa place clans cet univers magique, la vie de l'école est menacée. A quelques kilomètres de Hallendorf, le Troisième Reich projette son ombre menaçante sur l'Europe. A travers l'amitié de plus en plus forte qui la lie à Marek, un résident de l'école aussi séduisant que mystérieux, Ellen découvre l'horrible réalité de l'Allemagne nazie...

A whip-smart observation of the passions and tragedies behind daily life, Eva Ibbotson's Madensky Square is a classic snapshot of Viennese life before WWI, with a new introduction from Laura Wood. Susanna Weber's dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna. As the winter of 1910 unfurls into spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square, about the buildings and their colourful inhabitants. There's Frau Schumacher, with six daughters and a baby on the way, Professor Starsky and his menagerie of sickly reptiles, an aging bookseller, a teenaged Anarchist, and little Sigi - an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day. And then there's her dear friend Alice, the only person who has noticed the heartbreak that hides beneath Susanna's brisk kindness and brilliant talent .

Madensky Square

'A fairy tale for grown-ups. It's unapologetically romantic but it's also extremely funny, wry, dry and witty - and hugely uplifting.' - Marian Keyes, Daily MailAs WWI draws to a close, a love affair that stretches across countries, families and class begins, in master storyteller Eva Ibbotson's classic historical romance The Secret Countess, with an introduction from Amanda Craig. Anna Grazinsky, a young Russian countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to help her family in any way possible, and she is soon hired as a housemaid at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. Then Rupert, the young Earl, returns home from the war and is fascinated by his new housemaid, and the more time they spend together the more they feel inexplicably drawn together. But they can never be together; Rupert is already engaged and Anna is only a servant .

THE SECRET COUNTESS

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