Sally Beauman Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

England 1922: Um sich von einer schweren Krankheit zu erholen, reist die junge Lucy mit ihrer Gouvernante nach Ägypten. Bald schon ist sie fasziniert von der Schönheit des fernen Landes und dem illustren Kreis bedeutender Archäologen und ihrer Familien. In Frances findet sie eine beste Freundin, gemeinsam erleben die beiden die aufregenden Entdeckungen im Tal der Pyramiden mit und erforschen die rätselhafte Welt der Erwachsenen – eine Welt aus Halbwahrheiten und dunklen Geheimnissen. Noch Jahre später werfen die Geheimnisse, die ihren Anfang in Ägypten nehmen, ihre Schatten auf Lucys Leben und gefährden ihre große Liebe ...

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

Summer 1967: As an artist paints a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her older sisters-arrogant, beautiful Julia and brilliant, bookish Finn-Maisie embarks upon a portrait of her own: a secret account of her troubled family and her village friend Daniel. Before the end of the summer, a terrible accident will befall the family. Winter 1991: As the now-legendary portrait of the Mortland sisters is featured in a London retrospective, Daniel seeks to free himself of his obsession with the mysterious sisters by unraveling the secrets of that fateful summer...

"La notte scorsa ho sognato che tornavo a Manderley...". Così inizia il romanzo più famoso di Daphne du Maurier, considerato un classico della letteratura gotica e di quella romantica. Una giovane donna s'innamora del ricco e affascinante Maxim de Winter, rimasto vedovo di recente. Arrivati a Manderley, la splendida tenuta dei de Winter, la ragazza si accorge che Rebecca, la prima moglie, è più viva che mai nella memoria di tutti coloro che l'hanno conosciuta. E che la sua presenza si allunga come un'ombra cupa e inquietante sul suo matrimonio, sulla sua identità, sulla magnifica dimora. Un romanzo grandioso sulla gelosia, la memoria, il passato e il presente, inesorabilmente legati tra loro.

April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It is twenty years since the inquest, which famously and controversially passed a verdict of suicide. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter's ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning...

Romantic thriller with the characters from Lovers and liars and Danger zones, featuring journalist Gini Hunter.

L'Inghilterra è invasa da una nuova, letale droga: la "Colomba Bianca". Durante un party una ragazza muore ed un'altra sparisce con un pusher. Un insolito terzetto di investigatori - una reporter di guerra, una redattrice di moda ed un giornalista - decide di indagare sul traffico di stupefacenti, che sembra aver raggiunto anche il modo della moda.

Een Londense journaliste en een Parijse fotograaf stuiten op een schandaal dat de Amerikaanse ambassadeur in Groot-Brittannië betreft.

Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery.

The first time Rebecca set eyes on Cal Ryder, she took a dislike to him. And her dislike flared into anger at their next meeting. But on a tiny Greek island you cannot avoid people, and gradually she realised her anger had hidden a passion of a different kind... She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excitement that threatened to consume them both. But Rebecca noticed something secretive and watchful in his eyes, anger even, that made her feel shed blundered into his life at the worst possible moment. Whatever Cal was involved in was unfolding at a breakneck pace, and Rebecca's reactions were confused--partly emotional, partly sensual....

Traces the development of the Royal Shakespeare Company from its opening in 1879 to the present and examines its productions of the classic plays of Shakespeare