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  • It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

    by Anne de Marcken ...
    Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it — how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?CO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZEWINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDWINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK ... ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • The Fishing Fleet

    Husband-Hunting in the Raj

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Society's Queen

    The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years.At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Her husband served in the Ulster cabinet and was Air Minister in the National ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • 1939: The Last Season

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • A Duke to Remember

    An Avon FanLit Novella

    by Eve Marie Perry, Anne-Marie Rivers, Liana De la Rosa, Susannah Erwin, Cheryl Tapper ...
    A Duke's return sparks a most unwelcome temptation in this Regency romance novella featuring all the 2015 Avon FanLit-winning chapters!When Maxwell Trent, Duke of Highclyff, arrives at the ball of the season, Lady Felicity Stratford can scarcely believe her eyes—or control her beating heart. Ten years ago, Max left Felicity in the wake of a scandalous duel and sailed off to the West Indies. Having ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Margot at War

    Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    Discover the history at the heart of Robert Harris's number one bestseller PRECIPICE'A plot that Downton Abbey would die for' Daily Mail'A proper sex in high places scandal' Independent 'Books of the Year'Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time

    70 Novels in One Edition: Love Through the Ages – From Ancient Egypt to the Roaring 30s

    by D. K. Broster, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mary Angela Dickens, Robert Williams Buchanan, Georg Ebers, Philip Meadows Taylor, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, María Ruiz de Burton, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mary Hays, Louis Hémon, Madame de La Fayette, Lady Sydney Morgan ...
    The anthology 'The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time' presents an expansive array of narratives that collectively explore the depths of human experience through the lens of historical fiction. With contributions from a stellar cast of writers, including giants such as Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the collection spans continents and centuries, intricately weaving the personal with the ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Deathwatch (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Journey Through Gothic Horror: Explore 19th Century Dark Romance and Haunting Victorian Mysteries

    by Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe0, John William Polidori1, Washington Irving2, Charles Robert Maturin3, James Hogg4, Victor Hugo5, Frederick Marryat6, Nikolai Gogol7, Charlotte Brontë8, Emily Brontë9, James Malcolm Rymer0, Thomas Peckett Prest1, Nathaniel Hawthorne2, George Eliot3, Wilkie Collins4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Charles Dickens6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Oscar Wilde9, Guy de Maupassant0, Anna Katharine Green1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, Arthur Machen3, George MacDonald4, John Meade Falkner5, H. G. Wells6, Richard Marsh7, Henry James8, Bram Stoker9, W. W. Jacobs0, Robert Hugh Benson1, Gaston Leroux2, Théophile Gautier3, William Hope Hodgson4, Grant Allen5, Bennett Alderwyn1 ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley7, Isabel F. Hapgood8, C. J. Hogarth9 ...
    The Rise of Deathwatch traces the evolution of Gothic and uncanny literature from its eighteenth-century origins to fin-de-siècle and early modern transformations. Its range extends from castle romance, terror fiction, and philosophical nightmare to detective mystery, imperial adventure, psychological realism, and proto-science fiction. Haunted inheritances, forbidden knowledge, doubles, revenants ... Read more

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  • Diana Mosley

    by Anne De Courcy ...
    Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Debs at War

    1939-1945

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    Series series
    An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Snowdon

    The Biography

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    'The most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times' Sunday Telegraph'Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day' Evening StandardHow did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Husband Hunters

    Social Climbing in London and New York

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    'A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny' SpectatorTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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