DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction . . . brilliantly, marvellously chilling' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Moody and unnerving' GILLIAN FLYNN'Sinuous and undeniably feral' JULIE MYERSON***'Every... Zobraziť viac
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of... Zobraziť viac
When Dick Young's friend, Professor Magnus Lane, offers him an escape from his troubles in the form of a new drug, Dick finds himself transported to fourteenth-century Cornwall. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champerhoune,... Zobraziť viac
When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career,... Zobraziť viac
DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'A brilliantly executed thriller' VOGUE'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'The master of slow-burning menace' STACEY HALLS'Her influence on fiction is incalculable, her imagination... Zobraziť viac
DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'A great gothic writer' KATE MOSSE'A writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'The indisputable queen of the sophisticated literary thriller and historical romance' LAURA SHEPPERSON'She is in a league of... Zobraziť viac
As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant... Zobraziť viac
Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder... Zobraziť viac
Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that... Zobraziť viac
'Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, "Je vous demande pardon," and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice... Zobraziť viac
Contemporary / British English Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the... Zobraziť viac
A true classic of suspense in a beautiful new package for a whole new generation of readers. Zobraziť viac
'Now, ill-lit, almost in darkness, the windows of the houses shuttered, the water dank, the scene appeared altogether different, neglected, poor, and the long narrow boots moored to the slippery steps of cellar entrances looked like coffins.' A slow-... Zobraziť viac