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In 1492 Columbus sailed to the New World, but in the same year the Jews in Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism were sent into exile. Graves describes a situation in which two lovers are separated because one Jewish family decides to stay and convert, and the other decides to leave Spain forever.
At sixteen Verity becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire and realises for the first time that she is no more than a pawn in the games of ambitious men. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess. But for Verity Barforth convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is not with her husband, and she becomes the centre of a powerful drama of infidelity, jealousy and revenge, played out against the magnificent landscapes of the Yorkshire moors and the brutal poverty of the mills. ‘A vast exciting tapestry of love, hate and death . . . held me to the end’ James Herriot ‘A touching and ultimately satisfying love story.’ Jilly Cooper
Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.
A series of letters between a professor of philosophy and an eleven-year-old girl.
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