Uppläsare Diana Quick

Sixteen years after being locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the bloody murders of her employer and his housekeeper, Grace Marks is examined by Dr Simon Jordan, an expert in amnesia.As the days and weeks pass Simon tries to prise open the memor...

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Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India's vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns.Here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Ar...

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A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller.Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world?s most dangerous trouble spots, her life is shattered ...

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The enthralling sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford?s universally loved novels, A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream.Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable novel continues the story of an unorthodox and endlessly fascinating fam...

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A captivating story of family and friends, innocence and corruption.Four friends swore eternal friendship when all they had was each other. Now their dazzling careers, their seemingly successful lives, are to be disrupted by a devastating singer ?...

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A gripping story of triumph over tragedy from the author of A Woman of SubstanceMallory Keswick is a woman with the world at her feet. Then out of the blue, that world is shattered by violent tragedy and she loses all that she holds dear.Torn by g...

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A compelling story of old loves and old secrets?Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the vast fa...

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From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of SubstanceA forgotten past hides the key to the future.Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international inns, is about to celebrate her daughter?s engagement. At this ...

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From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes the continuing story of indomitable heroine, Emma HarteEmma Harte is now eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of the vast business empire she has created.To her...

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The unputdownable multi-million copy bestseller charting the rags to riches story of Emma HarteIn 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and pregnant.By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s classic poem, read by Diana Quick.Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning?s self-styled ?novel in verse?, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Floren...

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?An absolute belter of a biography? MARINA HYDEA Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An o...

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Penguin Classics presents Elizabeth Gaskell''s North and South , adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Diana Quick. ''How am I to dress up in my finery, and go ...

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