Rosie Thomas
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In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. When he takes on a more dangerous mission, Nerys is left in the exotic lakeside city of Srinigar, where the colonists dance, flirt, and gossip as if there is no war. When her husband returns, Nerys is a different woman. Years later, clearing out her dead father's house, Mair Ellis discovers an exquisite shawl enfolding a lock of child's hair...
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"The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
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The effect on five married couples when a single woman moves into town. The protagonist is Nina Cort, a good looking widow. Unable to stand the loneliness of London after her husband's death, she moves into a town where she has friends and proceeds to create havoc with their marriages. By the author of The White Dove.
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman whose dream is to run his own theatre company. Devil's right-hand man is the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered...
6) Constance
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Constance, a musician, composer & arranger of other people's music, has made a new life for herself in Bali. On hearing the news of her sister's serious illness, the last thing she wants is to leave the beaches & relaxed lifestyle & return to London. Especially as before leaving London, Constance had fallen in love with her sister's husband.
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"From the critically acclaimed author and 'master storyteller' (Cosmopolitan), a sweeping saga of loss and redemption that centers on Alice, who as a scientist, relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to use her skills to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, and tied to Oxford by her work, it's time to break away....
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"Miranda Meadowe lives a relatively solitary life in her rustic country home, but her world dramatically changes when she invites a group of her oldest friends to move in with her. In the beginning, their reunion is joyous. They laugh, dance, drink, behave badly, and being to reclaim the things they thought would be theirs forever. But as the days pass, long-forgotten grudges resurface and new tensions emerge, and they discover that their bond may...
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"Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism, and Nancy will see her star rise in a time when families decimated...
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Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.
Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Indian cinema. Avoiding the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, Rosie Thomas examines the subaltern genres of the "magic and fighting films"-the fantasy, costume, and stunt films popular in the decades before and immediately after...
13) Strangers
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Simon and Schuster
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[1987]
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English
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Buried in the rubble after a bomb explodes in a department store, Annie is injured and half dead with fear. Then a man trapped beside her reaches out with a quiet voice and soothing hand. The tragedy has brought them together and they begin a struggle for survival.
15) The white dove
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Viking
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1986.
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English
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Amy Lovell, ill-suited to the leisurely life of her upper class English background, embarks on a nursing career in London ... her first exposure to political reality.
16) Dynasties
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BBC Earth
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[2019]
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English
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"Nature depicted as never seen before: high stakes drama that goes deeper into the lives of five of the world's most celebrated and endangered animals than ever before: Chimpanzee, Emperor Penguin, Lion, Painted Wolf and Tiger." --
