Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A WWII soldier embarks on affairs with two very different men in a landmark novel that “transcends categorizations” (The Telegraph).
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
2) Marking time
Author
Series
Cazalet chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three Cazalet cousins--Louise, Polly, and Clary--are so eager to shed the trappings of childhood that they view the war from a different perspective than their more experienced parents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An aging aristocrat on her deathbed and her longtime devoted lover explore the dark events of their shared past in hopes of uncovering a tragic, elusive truth in this masterfully evocative British mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Lady Lucy Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears on the radio reminds her of her younger, darker days and inspires her to question her dearest friend and former lover, Paul...
Author
Series
Davina Graham series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham faces her most daunting challenge: solving a series of seemingly random political murders in international waters. The first female head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham is taking a well-deserved holiday with her lover, advertising executive Tony Walden. But her Venetian idyll is short-lived. On the Grand Canal, widowed US Secretary of the Defense Henry Franklyn...
5) The citadel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of a young physician, and it portrays his career through the vicissitudes of success and failure, happiness and sorrow. Andrew Manson, whose creed was "take nothing for granted," shows early promise of doing great things. The adventurous days, from his start in a colliery town through the realization of his ambition for a London practice, picture a sincere, conscientious young man almost broken and defeated through the arrogance...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A CHARMING WIDOW WITH A TROUBLING HISTORY
As if by magic, Annette Berowne seems capable of dazzling men from the moment she meets them. But when Annette becomes the primary suspect in her husband's poisoning death, she arouses entirely different feelings. Now some men feel sorry for her while others are convinced she's guilty.
PROVIDES TWO DETECTIVES WITH A MYSTERY OF SEDUCTION AND MURDER.
Jack Gibbons is a by-the-book, rising star at Scotland...
7) The defector
Author
Series
Davina Graham series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Davina Graham of British intelligence falls in love with the KGB defector whom she is debriefing and is part of a dangerous mission to Russia to bring his family out.
8) Symposium
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dame Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning.
One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying "the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)" and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very momentSymposium was applauded...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
Author
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
13) A game of spies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncertain whom to trust, racing either to safety or to her death, Eva Bernhardt is about to take her future into her own hands--and with it, perhaps the future of the entire war.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled "Reconciliation", Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Jim Milton recognizes a potential ally in Clark's young Private Secretary, Robert Amiss.
Milton soon learns from Amiss how Whitehall works:...
15) The avenger
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her mission...travel to an ancient world and capture a warrior's heart
For Alexandra Patton, the Time Raiders project sends the reluctant psychic back to 60 AD Briton—a world where she can barely understand the accents, let alone its culture of brutality and superstition. Armed only with her "freakish" ability to talk to the dead, Alex must use all her gifts to entice Caradoc, a savagely sexy Druid warrior, into helping her...
For Alexandra Patton, the Time Raiders project sends the reluctant psychic back to 60 AD Briton—a world where she can barely understand the accents, let alone its culture of brutality and superstition. Armed only with her "freakish" ability to talk to the dead, Alex must use all her gifts to entice Caradoc, a savagely sexy Druid warrior, into helping her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain's beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers Chandler and enchanted by their infant son, Davy. While visiting a certain Mrs. Walsh-a mysterious old woman claiming to be a royal relation, a Romanov who...
17) The return
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II. Anna Martin is ready to put the past - and her unsuccessful marriage - behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocrat from a distinguished family that dates back to czarist Russia, Nicholas never talks about his past. Then Anna gets a call from her ex-husband. Left-wing journalist Paul Martin warns Anna about a plot spearheaded...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher King-the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Possibly the most unusual mystery ever written. A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in bizarre circumstances. Three amateur detectives take the case: Lord Simon Plimsoll, Monsieur Amer Picon, and Monsignor Smith (in whom discerning readers will note likeness to some familiar literary figures). Each arrives at his own brilliant solution, startling in its originality, ironclad in its logic. Meanwhile Sergean Beef sits contemptuously in the background....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The renowned British author of Death on the Agenda delivers a "stunning finish with a return-from-the-dead trap. Very lively and zestful" (Observer).
No question, one of the real delights of this series is all the early-1960s clotheshorses who go traipsing through the pages, and this time around, they're front and center. Moyes in fact worked as an editor at British Vogue, and her familiarity with the London fashion scene is put to good use in this...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request