Jane Robins: 8 books

Jusqu'où peut-on s'immiscer dans la vie de ses proches ? Callie a toujours vécu dans l'ombre de sa sœur, Tilda, à qui tout réussit. Celle-ci est actrice et forme un couple heureux avec Felix, un riche banquier, alors que Callie vit seule et végète dans la librairie où elle travaille. Si elle...

A Good Housekeeping “Great Read” This “deliciously creepy psychological thriller” (Publishers Weekly)—think Strangers on a Train for the modern age—explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect...

Solo tu puoi salvare tua sorella. Sei tu la gemella migliore… Ne sei davvero sicura? «Assolutamente da non perdere.» Library Journal «Una storia perturbante, ricca di tradimenti e colpi di scena. Il finale, poi, vi lascerà senza fiato. » Lansing State Journal «Un thriller...

'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail, 1957 In July 1957, the press descended in droves on the south-coast town of Eastbourne. An inquest...

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying...

George Moore: Influence and Collaboration explores in sustained form for the first time the nature of Moore’s interactions with other European writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Bringing critical scrutiny to the nature of intellectual exchange around this most adaptable of personalities,...

English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic...

Charles Dickens is arguably the greatest storyteller in English Literature and his novels have been loved and respected for nearly two hundred years. As accurate reflections of Victorian society they are unparalleled. Vivid characters and realistic settings are created in the mind of the reader, all laced with Dickens inimitable humour, wit and lac