Marja Hilsum Książki

.even as she aches to know the rapture of the conqueror's kiss.The DoveFor the first time ever, mighty Wulfgar has been vanquished - and by a bold and beautiful princess of Saxon blood.

Een de laatste jaren zeer veel furore makende schrijfster van bestsellers als 'De glazen maagd', 'Katie Mulholland', en 'Het geslacht Mallen' is Catherine Cooksen. Onder het pseudoniem Catherine Marchant is zij onlangs begonnen romans te schrijven die in geen enkel opzicht onderdoen voor de herdruk belevende Cookson-successen! 'Aan de oever van de rivier' is het verhaal van het twintigjarige meisje Martha Crawford, die na de dood van haar moeder een zware last op haar frêle schouders gedrukt krijgt: de leiding van het huishouden in Het Woonhuis, de vervallen bezitting van de Crawfords aan de oever van de Tyne, een paar mijl van Hexham in het landelijke, romantische Northumberland. Plotseling veranderen twee dramatische gebeurtenissen het gewone levenspatroon van Het Woonhuis drastisch. De een stelt Martha Mary voor nog veeleisender verantwoordelijkheden, de ander brengt haar in conflict met een bijzonder openhartig man: dokter Harry Fuller...

In een na de Derde Wereldoorlog half verwoest Amerika tracht een man met een gestolen vliegtuigje te ontsnappen aan de beulen van de nieuwe feodale maatschappij en de vrijplaats Canada te bereiken.

Based on Michael J Bird's BBC TV serial. It was 35 years since Alan Haldane had been in Crete, fighting with the partisans, lauded as a hero. Thirty-five years since he'd seen Melina or had word of her. Now he was going back, trying to rediscover in Crete what he had lacked in England: a sense of place, of peace. He couldn't find Melina, and he couldn't forget her, but he discovered that she had borne him a daughter, who was as blind to his existence as he had been to hers. He could not acknowledge her, could not let the past disrupt the present. Yet when he met Annika, and knew he could love her, he could not dispel the shadow cast between them by the ghosts of the war years. He was caught between fear and longing, in a trap that he had laid years before. He was not the only one who remembered. His presence on the island slowly rekindled a vendetta, a blood feud that could end his agony of indecision so simply -- by death.

The club where James Bond is asked to settle the dispute over ungentlemanly behaviour is embarrassed. The accused is the unimpeachable Sir Hugo Drax, head of the multi-million-pound Moonraker missile programme on which Britain's future depends.

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for one reason only: she was expecting his child. Her own parents accepted the situation with a kind of pained resignation. The easy-going McCabes, and especially George's rumbustious mother, just took it in their stride. But Annie was a girl of spirit and determined to make the marriage work. George might not be all that bright, but he was good-natured and a hard worker once given a shove in the right direction. Annie applied herself to that task as she matured into a woman of character and resource. The family prospered even as it grew. She bore George four children, but it was the first who always held her heart in the hollow of his hand. From early childhood, Rance was a problem. There were traits in his character that were hard to excuse or even understand, but whatever trouble he got into, Annie would forgive him. Mother and son were bound together by an invisible chord; invisible but strong enough to become a noose for both of them.Spanning a period of nearly thirty years and set against a background of the Tyneside towns, The Invisible Cord is a novel of great power and warmth that explores several different kinds of love with a strong dramatic narrative that wholly engages from first page to last.

Wanneer een jonge Engelse vrouw in verwachting raakt, probeert haar jaloerse buurvrouw de zwangerschap te beëindigen door heksachtige kruidendranken en bezweringen.

De levensgeschiedenis van een succesvolle Amerikaanse chirurg, tevens de geschiedenis van zijn familie in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw.

Korte informatie over automerken en hun makers uit de periode 1900-'50. Met zwart-witte foto's. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.