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For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening.

One would hardly think an outlying college town on the prairies would be the place a woman from the 15th century would choose to reveal her story, but when janine begins to discover the story of ma

Based on true events around the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, the book traces the life of a young English woman and her Muslim husband.

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ...

With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society.

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain.

Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of the detective agency. Mrs.

It’s taken years, but Portia Adams has found an outlet for her obsessive curiosity as the consulting detective of 221 Baker Street, like her grandfathers before her.

It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore.

« Promettez-moi de ne jamais vous marier, de ne jamais choisir d'époux ou d'épouse qui risque de vous abandonner ou de vous briser le coeur, ni d'avoir d'enfants.

«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu pour la première fois. Un canot est apparu, descendant en silence la rivière.

Bitter rivals. Festering animosities. Gossip, innuendo and scandal. And don’t forget the gun.

A full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus.

Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets.