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  A Time to Live

  Vanessa de Haan

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  Will he choose inheritance – or freedom . . . 
  1918: Freddie was destined for a different life, determined to make his fortune in the plantations of Ceylon. But just as the great war comes to an end, the eldest brother and heir to Coombe Hall, Edward, doesn’t return. 
  Torn between duty and freedom, Freddie must now sacrifice his own dreams to keep the estate – and the future of Coombe – alive. And now he must now marry for an heir, not for love. 
  But the turmoil of war didn’t end on the battlefield; the country faces upheavals like never before. And when an unexpected legacy blows in from Edward’s secret past, Freddie’s grip on the estate – and his future – looks more uncertain than ever . . . 
  Sweeping from the smoking battlefields of France to the rich estates of Devon, from Suffragettes to political extremists, this is a story of legacy and scars, of the price of change, the price of family… 
  In A TIME TO LIVE, Vanessa de Haan presents a compelling historical fiction that delves into the romance and military struggles of the 20th century. This latest work is a testament to her literary prowess, making it one of the best releases of the year. 
  For fans of Kristin Hannah (The Women), Dinah Jefferies (The Missing Sister), Kate Mosse (The Ghost Ship), Lucinda Riley (The Shadow Sister), and Elif Shafak (The Island of Missing Trees). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Wolves of Rome

  Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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  From the international best seller Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Wolves of Rome is a historical thriller about two brothers and the betrayal of Teutoburg Forest that devastated the Roman Empire. 
  Bound by blood. Divided by an empire. 
  Two wild Germanic brothers, Armin and Wulf, are held hostage in Rome to keep their father from rebelling against the Roman Empire. There they are moulded into ideal Roman soldiers: brave, disciplined, ruthless. Then a conspiracy arises that threatens the Emperor, and they alone must decide whether he lives or dies.... 
  As young men the brothers are separated, and they serve in the Roman military at opposite ends of the Empire. Armin begins to realise he cannot escape his origins and works to unite the tribes of Germania under one banner. Only his brother and the might of the Roman Empire stand between him and his dream of freedom for the Germanic people....

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  Under the Diehard Brand - Golden...

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson has a chip on his shoulder and a mission in his heart to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town.Old Diehard's lost control of his town, and it seems every outcast and outlaw west of the Mississippi is on the prowl in Wolf River. Now Lee's come all the way from Texas to stand up for his father, a man who hasn't seen him since he was a boy and who doesn't know him from Adam.Lee's plan is a dangerous one—mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand Under the Diehard Brand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the rule of law is to break it.Also includes the Western adventures, Hoss Tamer, in which a circus horse trainer turned bronco buster has to figure a way to tame a gang of outlaws; and The Ghost Town Gun-Ghost, the story of an old prospector who seems to have lost his wits; but is he crazy ... or crazy like a fox?

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens, Herman...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Kipling in these more modern times is increasingly seen as an apologist for the bad ways of evil empires.  It’s a simplistic analysis and avoids much of his literary talent that is entertaining, scary and down right brilliant story telling whatever the background it is based on or comes from.   
   
  01 - The Top Ten - The 19th Century - The Men - An Introduction 
  02 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  03 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  04 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  05 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  06 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  07 - About Love by Anton Chekhov 
  08 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  09 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  10 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  11 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  12 -Lost Hearts by M R James

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  Monsoon Summer - A Novel

  Julia Gregson

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  By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, “a powerful and memorable novel” (Publishers Weekly) about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife.Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India.Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor finishing his medical training at Oxford. But Kit’s light-skinned mother is in fact Anglo-Indian with secrets of her own, and Anto is everything she does not want for her daughter.Despite the threat of estrangement, Kit is excited for the future, hungry for adventure, and deeply in love. She and Anto secretly marry and set off for South India—where Kit plans to run the maternity hospital she’s helped from afar.But Kit’s life in India does not turn out as she imagined. Anto’s large, traditional family wanted him to marry an Indian bride and find it hard to accept Kit. As their relationship begins to fray, Kit’s job becomes fraught with tension as they both face a newly independent India, where riots have left millions dead and there is deep-rooted suspicion of the English. In a rapidly changing world, Kit’s naiveté is to land her in a frightening and dangerous situation...Based on true accounts of European midwives in India, Monsoon Summer is a powerful story of secrets, the nature of home, the comforts and frustrations of family, and how far we’ll go to be with those we love.

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  Under the Northern Lights...

  Tracie Peterson

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  Bestselling author Tracie Peterson continues her saga of life and love in the rugged Alaskan Territory with the second volume of the ALASKAN QUEST series. When Pinkerton agent Helaina Beecham's obsession with capturing a dangerous fugitive dulls her judgment, she is kidnapped and carried off into the wilderness just as an early winter is approaching. Now her only hope is that Jacob Barringer--the man who has captured her heart--will find her before it is too late.(Alaskan Quest Book 2)

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