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I catch sight of a familiar face across the street, and my breath stops. I’m not sure any answers he can give me will mend my shattered heart – but I need them anyway. This island has kept its secrets long enough. When Abby steps off the ferry and onto the isle of Kinlossay, she squeezes her daughter’s hand and prays this trip was not a mistake. For the last year she has been receiving letters from a mysterious stranger detailing every moment of his life on this rugged little island. Swept away by descriptions of buttercups dancing on rolling fields, his words were a lifeline to Abby, filling her grey life with colour. But then, one day, the messages stopped. Perhaps Abby should have f...
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his i...
When Ellie Hesketh arrives at Rowan Hall, all she wants is peace and quiet and a place to lick her wounds after a break-up. But it seems fate has other things in mind for her--she meets Will, damaged and complicated, whose secrets almost nobody knows, and his brother Finn, who's finally decided to stop running from his own past. A story of friendship, forgiveness and unexpected romance.
Charles Davies (b.ca. 1706) emigrated from England to Philadelphia, and married Hannah Matson in 1732/1733. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Davis) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.
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Growing up on a farm to a penniless family, Emma Davis only dreamed about making it in Hollywood one day... and now here she is, living the life in Los Angeles, and flying to the Cannes Film Festival to walk her first-ever red carpet. The night before the event, Emma and her film co-star Annie Stewart, take a train along the coast to visit the Monte-Carlo Casino in Monaco; known as the richest place in the world, with marble streets and ornate buildings adorned with gold finishes, situated at the edge of the Mediterranean sea. When Emma has a chance rendezvous with wealthy Londoner Trent Collins, the sparks fly faster than chips on the poker table. Their worlds are turned upside-down in an unexpected night of steamy passion, changing the course of fate forever. But will she be able to love again? Can they fight through the pressures of new-found celebrityism, living separate lives, in cities that are oceans apart? Now they must decide if they're ready to take a risk and make the biggest gamble of all... on that of true love.