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Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a fracturing marriage, is in North Norfolk to restore Marsh House to its former glory, its walls adorned with the fading murals and paintings of its long-ago owner, Lilias Carter-Brown. Elise makes an immediate connection to the house, to Sam—a carpenter and a comfort—and to history itself when an old photograph draws Elise into Lilias’s heartbreaking past. In 1939, with war threatening, Lilias and her sister turn Marsh House into a sanctuary for London evacuees—a young boy and his mother.

The Stranger from the Sea is the eighth audiobook in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, and continues the story after the fifth TV series, which has become an international phenomenon, starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his...

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

A picturesque seaside town. A body by the boathouse. And a retired detective who thought he’d left murder behind. When Arthur “Art” Lennox moves to the quiet village of Bracktown-on-Sea, he expects sea breezes, friendly neighbors, and peace. But when a body washes up by the old boathouse, his hopes for a tranquil retirement vanish with the tide. The victim, a well-connected newcomer with more enemies than friends, has left behind a tangle of grudges, secrets, and half-truths. The suspects range from a hot-tempered fisherman to the victim’s estranged daughter — and in a place this ...

'If you love cosy mysteries with a charming seaside setting, lovable characters, and a mystery that keeps you guessing, then you need to meet the Fish and Chip Shop Detectives!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A perfect blend of suspense, humour, and heart. The clues were cleverly placed, and the...

THE NICHOLAS CRUWYS NAVAL SERIES: BOOKS 1–3 Soundings Edge · Latitudes Edge · Longitudes Edge Three complete novels following Nicholas Cruwys from a fourteen-year-old gentleman volunteer in 1774 to a seasoned commander in the far waters of the China trade — for readers of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. SOUNDINGS EDGE In the spring of 1774, Nicholas Cruwys leaves the stone halls of Exeter and the ancestral pride of a faded Devonshire line to join His Majesty's Navy — a world where the rigid structures of Georgian society meet the harsh meritocracy of wooden ships and iron ...

In the year 1794, an East Indiaman is taken in the Strait of Sunda by French warships that knew her name, and knew exactly where to wait. The war of the French Revolution has reached the farthest ocean. Fresh from the Glorious First of June, Captain Nicholas Cruwys of the Royal Navy and the frigate Topaze are ordered east — to waters he last sailed as a young officer bound for Canton, a decade and a war ago. The harbours are the ones he remembers. Nothing else is. For this is the Company's ocean now: the East India Company, a power greater than most kingdoms, with its own armies, its own ...

April 1778. England is at war, and the Navy wants boys. Gerry Pellew is twelve years old, raised soft in Bath, and terrified. His father, the legendary Admiral Lord Pellew, has one instruction for the captain of the seventy-four-gun Monarch: train him, and show him no slackness. His brother has one piece of advice: never show your feelings, and for God's sake do not cry. The sea will test both within the year. From the smoke and slaughter of Ushant, where Gerry must perform a last terrible kindness for his dearest friend, to lee shores and fevers, fog duels and night boardings, the youngest...

The long-awaited and never-before published finale in New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s delightful School by the Sea series. After all those lessons, it’s time to graduate.... Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding...

"Janine Birkett's marvelous narration enhances this riveting mystery, part of the Vera Stanhope series, set on the majestic northeast coast of England...Listeners will appreciate Birkett's handling of the dry humor, particularly Stanhope's" — AudioFile Magazine From Ann Cleeves—New York...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures all the birders attention while right under their noses the most...

Everyone always says that your honeymoon should be a holiday to remember… 'This is a cosy series which is like a hug, I love the main protagonists and the locations’ ★★★★★ 'The characters are what draw me back to this series, and also the humour’ ★★★★★ ***...

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea...

On 16 July 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lion: his plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion hinged entirely on the destruction of the RAF and the Royal Navy, but even as Hitler's plans swung into action and England, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied her defences, the Battle of Britain began and in just a few months Germany had lost all hope of dominating England's skies and with it, the key to the invasion. On 17 September, 1940, Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion indefinitely and the entire episode faded from memory.

“Freya and Aunt Carole, everyone’s favorite antique-hunting, mystery-solving duo, return in a sequel that somehow manages to be even more captivating than their first adventure” (Tom Ryan, USA TODAY bestselling author) as they are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal aboard a cruise ship...

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead… On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of...

'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - Guardian Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell, and swashbuckling adventure during the great Age of Sail: To the Eastern Seas will be the twenty-second novel in Julian Stockwin's acclaimed...

Frances Evesham is BACK with her ALL-NEW Exham-on-Sea Murder Mystery set in the small English seaside town full of quirky characters, sea air, and suspicion! 🔎 Perfect for readers of M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin. Have you missed super-sleuths Max and Libby? This time they are in the beautiful...

A Sweeping History Of British Columbia British Columbia defies easy summary. It is a place of staggering natural beauty and deep human contradiction — a province built on Indigenous land without treaty or consent, enriched by the labour of people it then tried to exclude, and shaped by conflicts between capital and workers that were fiercer here than almost anywhere else in Canada. It is also a place of genuine breakthrough: of land claims won after a century of struggle, of radical unions that changed what workers could demand, of environmental movements that began on a Vancouver ...