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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it,

From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making 2000 pounds a week, to the concierge taking backhanders--everyone in the hotel trade is on the take.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons.

This is the warm hearted, engaging and humorous account of Annica Foxcroft's exile to a pondokkie in the country, when unexpected financial hardship overtook her family during the 1960s.

The Easter presents that Russia's last two czars gave to their czarinas have become synonymous with privilege, beauty, and an almost provocative uselessness.

Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have.

Struck with Parkinson's at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some people might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions.

An intriguing variation on a ghost story. Tom loves his little sister, Alice, but he thinks she's a bit strange.

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace Theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the place - it's as if she was born for a life in the t

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye o

It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.

In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love

Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers, shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies, down to the level of our gen

Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted