New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently… Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene? Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris—a cherished packet of letters in hand—determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him…

Last Christmas in Paris

From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco, comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn. Three cities, two sisters, one chance to correct the past . . . New York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn’t seen since traveling to Europe forty years earlier; a journey inspired by famed reporter, Nellie Bly. Clara, ever-dutiful, sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but it’s also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to develop her ambitions to report on the growing threat of Hitler’s Nazi party and Mussolini’s control in Italy. Constantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious Queen Mary, the Orient Express, and the sights of Paris and Venice,, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfil Violet’s wish, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. But as they reach Vienna to deliver the final letter, old grudges threaten their reconciliation again. As political tensions rise, and Europe feels increasingly volatile, the pair are glad to head home on the Hindenburg, where fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey.

Three Words for Goodbye

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise—upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself--but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a women’s march to Versailles, the monarchy is forced to bend, but not without a fight. The king’s pious sister Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother, spirit her family to safety, and restore the old order, even at the risk of her head. But when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the revolution’s ideals into a new tyranny, even the women who toppled the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in the pen, brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way out of France’s blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge, all the women must make impossible choices to survive--unless unlikely heroine and courtesan’s daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can sway the man who controls France’s fate: the fearsome Robespierre.

Ribbons of Scarlet

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances. Movie stars and paparazzi flock to Cannes for the glamorous film festival, but Grace Kelly, the biggest star of all, wants only to escape from the flash-bulbs. When struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique, fending off a persistent British press photographer, James Henderson, a bond is forged between the two women and sets in motion a chain of events that stretches across thirty years of friendship, love, and tragedy. James Henderson cannot forget his brief encounter with Sophie Duval. Despite his guilt at being away from his daughter, he takes an assignment to cover the wedding of the century, sailing with Grace Kelly’s wedding party on the SS Constitution from New York. In Monaco, as wedding fever soars and passions and tempers escalate, James and Sophie—like Princess Grace—must ultimately decide what they are prepared to give up for love.

Meet Me in Monaco

New York, 1937. Clara og Madeleines bedstemor Violet ligger for døden, og det får de to søstre til at tilsidesætte deres forskelligheder for at opfylde hendes sidste ønske: at rejse tværs gennem Europa for at levere tre afskedsbreve til bekendte, som Violet ikke har set siden sin rejse dertil fyrre år forinden. Pligtopfyldende Clara ser turen som en ubelejlig ekskurs inden brylluppet med millionæren Charles Hancock, mens den spirende journalist Madeleine øjner muligheden for at rapportere om den voksende trussel i Tyskland og Mussolinis Italien. Søstrene er i konstant strid med hinanden fra ombordstigningen på den luksuriøse Queen Mary og rejsen med Orientekspressen til opholdene i Paris og Venedig. Men da de når til Wien for at levere det sidste brev, truer gamle hemmeligheder med at spolere deres gryende forsoning. Tre afskedsord er en rørende rejse over oprørte farvande og gennem et Europa i forandring. Det er en fortælling om søskendekærlighed i skæbnens time og om at rette op på fortiden, før det er for sent.

Tre afskedsord

DA KRIGEN SKILTE DEM AD, BRAGTE DERES ORD DEM TÆTTERE SAMMEN. AUGUST, 1914. England er i krig. Da Evie Elliott sender broren Will og hans bedste ven Thomas mod fronten tror hun – ligesom alle andre – at krigen vil være ovre inden jul, hvor de tre har planer om at fejre højtiden på de romantiske caféer i Paris. Men historien vil det anderledes. Mens krigen står på, indleder Evie og Thomas en brevkorrespondance, hvor de deler håb og frygt for fremtiden. Men kan kærligheden få lov at blomstre imellem dem, eller kommer historien i vejen? JULEN, 1968. Stålsat på at stede fortidens spøgelser til hvile, vender Thomas tilbage til Paris med en dyrebar stak breve i hånden. Da han ankommer, venter der ham en sidste kuvert. En sidste jul i Paris er en fortælling om Den Store Krigs omkostninger, om uudslukkelig kærlighed og om juletidens lysende håb, der lever og dør i Paris.

En sidste jul i Paris

Filmstjerner og paparazzi strømmer til Cannes for at deltage i den glamourøse filmfestival, men skuespilleren Grace Kelly vil for alt i verden undvige fotografernes søgelys. Da den fattige parfumeuse Sophie Duval giver ly til Miss Kelly for at undgå den vedholdende pressefotograf, James Henderson, begynder tredive års venskab, kærlighed og tragedie for de to kvinder. James Henderson har svært ved at glemme sit korte møde med Sophie Duval. I Monaco, da feberen over det royale bryllup raser, må James og Sophie – ligesom Prinsesse Grace – i sidste ende beslutte, hvad de er villige til at opgive i kærlighedens navn. Mød mig i Monaco udspiller sig i 1950’erne med Grace Kellys stormende forelskelse og glamourøse bryllup med fyrst Rainier som bagtæppe for en malerisk, solbeskinnet rejse langs den franske riviera og en fortælling om lidenskab, skæbne og nye chancer.

Mød mig i Monaco

'Dit verhaal over het vinden van ware liefde is ontroerend en meeslepend.' Kristin Harmel New York, 1937. Wanneer de van elkaar vervreemde zussen Clara en Madeleine Summers vernemen dat hun oma Violet op sterven ligt, stemmen ze ermee in haar laatste wens te vervullen; samen door Europa reizen. Violet wil dat ze drie brieven bezorgen, brieven waarin ze afscheid neemt van belangrijke mensen uit haar verleden. Terwijl Clara en Maddy met de luxueuze Queen Mary en met de Oriënt Express reizen en Parijs, Venetië en Wenen verkennen, is het gekibbel niet van de lucht. Ze vragen zich af of ze wel in staat zijn de laatste wens van Violet te vervullen, totdat een schokkende ontdekking over hun familie hen dichter bij elkaar brengt. 'Een hartverwarmend verhaal over de kracht van vergeving en de onbreekbare band van zussen.' Natasha Lester

De onvergetelijke reis van de zussen Summers

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define—and defy—an era… She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava’s star is rising just as Frank’s career—and public image as a family man—is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds herself gracing the front page of every tabloid in America. Jealousy and cheating abound, and when the two succumb to their temperaments and their vices, their happiness is threatened at every turn. As the pair ride the rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, they both wonder if the next turn will be the end of their careers, and most devastating of all—the end of all they’ve shared. A captivating novel with a star-studded cast spanning continents and decades, Strangers in the Night brings to life the most riveting love story of the twentieth century.

Strangers in the Night

’Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and Three Words for Goodbye. December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a postwar Britain hungry for change. As preparations begin for the royal Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, old friends—Jack Devereux and Olive Carter—are unexpectedly reunited by the occasion. Olive, a single mother and aspiring reporter at the BBC, leaps at the opportunity to cover the holiday celebration, but even a chance encounter with the queen doesn’t go as planned and Olive wonders if she will ever be taken seriously. Jack, a recently widowed chef, reluctantly takes up a new role in the royal kitchens at Sandringham. Lacking in purpose and direction, Jack has abandoned his dream to have his own restaurant, but his talents are soon noticed and while he might not believe in himself, others do, and a chance encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and ambition. As Jack and Olive’s paths continue to cross over the following five Christmases, they grow ever closer. Yet Olive carries the burden of a heavy secret that threatens to destroy everything. Christmas Day, December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…

Christmas with the Queen

Curl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey!'A page-turning festive read, full of will they/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses of royal life behind palace doors, and inspiring culinary treats. As delicious as a Christmas pudding topped with flaming brandy and lashings of cream' Gill Paul ************************************ December 1952 As a young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver her first Christmas speech, staff work behind the scenes to get ready for the festivities at Sandringham Estate. Among them are Jack and Olive – old friends who are surprised to be reunited after seven years apart. While Olive works for the BBC reporting on the royal family, and Jack is employed in the queen’s kitchens, their bond deepens – until a secret threatens to tear them apart. When the truth comes to light, it could change Olive and Jack's lives forever. But maybe Christmas has one last gift to deliver… Readers love Christmas with the Queen!:‘Oh what a gorgeous read… full of warmth and love and nostalgia’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘So well researched you almost feel like you are with the Queen’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this book from the very first page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Jack and Olive were both wonderfully real and complex, they leapt from the page … A captivating Christmas read to be savoured' Amanda Geard 'A must read for anyone in need of Christmas magic' Georgie Blalock

Agosto de 1914. A Inglaterra está em guerra. Quando Evie Elliott vê seu irmão, Will, e seu melhor amigo, Thomas Harding, partirem para o front, ela acredita -- como todo mundo -- que tudo estará acabado até o Natal, quando o trio planeja comemorar o feriado entre os românticos cafés de Paris. Mas, como a história nos diz, tudo aconteceu de forma tão diferente... Hazel Gaynor juntou-se a Heather Webb para criar este romance que provou ser um dos melhores sobre o tema. Uma brilhante homenagem à tragédia da guerra e à resistência do coração humano.

Último Natal em Paris

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