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Theft of Life - Imogen Robertson - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

Theft of Life - Imogen Robertson - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

London, 1785. When the body of a former West Indies planter is found outside St Paul''s Cathedral, suspicion abounds. But talk is not only of the man''s death. His past brings a tide of fear directly to Harriet Westerman''s door where William Geddings, senior footman, knows more than he is prepared to confess.In search of answers, Harriet and her friend, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, reluctantly explore the dark and destructive world of Britain''s slave trade. And as Harriet must confront an ugly truth close to home, London''s hidden network of slave traders are forced to face the light. Francis Glass, a former slave, holds the key to their anonymity and no one can be sure what he plans to do with it.When some people will risk everything for their reputation, some acts can never be forgiven.

DKK 119.00
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The Himalayan Summer - Louise Brown - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

The Himalayan Summer - Louise Brown - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

THE HIMALAYAN SUMMER is a spellbinding novel of the British Raj period, the quest to find a child, and a love story beyond boundaries - for all fans of Dinah Jefferies ''THE TEA PLANTER''S WIFE and of Louise Brown''s earlier novel, EDEN GARDENS .''Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your heart will break. You will laugh, cry and you will want a sequel'' Lovereading.comEllie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie''s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party, Ellie meets Hugh Douglas, a maverick explorer and botanist. Despite the rumours surrounding Hugh, Ellie is drawn to him. A year later, Nepal is devastated by a catastrophic earthquake and in a falling building, Ellie is forced to make an instant, and terrible, decision: she has time to save only one of her children. When she returns for her son''s body the next day, it has gone. Ellie knows he cannot have disappeared; someone, somewhere has her child, and it is to Hugh that she turns for help.

DKK 120.00
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Eden Gardens - Louise Brown - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

Eden Gardens - Louise Brown - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

A luscious, enthralling and colourful novel of India, sure to appeal to readers of Dinah Jefferies'' THE TEA PLANTER''S WIFE. ''Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your heart will break, you will laugh at some of the things Mam says, and cry at others, you will want a sequel'' Lovereading Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune.But Maisy''s more at home in the city''s forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands.Then one day Maisy''s tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world.So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble... This is the other side of British India. A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world, where race, class and gender divide and rule.

DKK 119.00
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