Naomi Jacob

This novel tell of Monica Crawshaw relationship with two men - with the sensual, selfish Hamish McPhail who brutally betrays her, and with Victor Towers, a young man of gentle disposition with whom she discovers love of a strength and depth she has never known before. But driven by distress, Monica commits a grave wrong against Victor. She practices upon him, and finally upon his parents, a tragic deception which has repercussions for many years to come, and which, despite her attempts to justify it to herself, weighs heavily upon her conscience.

A moving story of family ties and true love battling against the odds in wartime Yorkshire. From their first meeting there is an undeniable attraction between Liz Tancred and Michael Anderson, but convention means they must keep their feelings to themselves, for now. Liz is a courageous woman whose life is not all that it seems. Michael is a dutiful young man who steps in to run his family's farm when tragedy strikes. Then, the outbreak of World War II changes everything. As Liz and Michael rise to the challenges of wartime life, can their love blossom and, more importantly, will it survive? The Wind on the Heath is a warm and touching story about the enduring power of love, loyalty and family.

Married to William Harrington, a drunken degenerate, Ann's life had been threadbare and colourless. So she leaves him. But surely life has more to offer her than the Yorkshire family business she runs so efficiently. Then she met Wilford. Can this be high noon of Ann's happiness?

Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list’s top spot. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.

Success - Riches - Love - were theirs - but not without heartbreak - not without pain.

The moving conclusion to the acclaimed Gollantz family saga. When young Charles Gollantz arrives at the sale rooms with a surprising claim, the family must adapt to a new reality. And the scene is set for another generation of intense sibling rivalry. Like many of the Gollantz men before him, Charles's love life is less than straightforward. Can he win the hand of beautiful Maria against her disapproving father's wishes? A touching last opportunity for readers to share in the lives and loves of Emmanuel, Viva, Simeon, Bill and their family and friends.

Excerpt from Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason the to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne might come to earth's level, his patriarchal, flowing beard might drop from his face, and we might see him as he really was-a plucked and toothless old savage, with no more Christianity than Jacob, and with all of Jacob's greed. Richard of England, styled by hero-worshippers "the lion-hearted," might be re-christened "The Wolf-hearted," and the famous Du Guesclin might seem to us a half-brutish vagabond. But Charles of Burgundy, dubbed by this prone world "The Bold" and "The Rash," would take the greatest fall. Of him and his fair daughter I shall speak in this history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art Technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A moving saga of divided loyalties, family ties, love and war, set in London and Switzerland, mainly during the Great War. The second book in the bestselling Gollantz Family Saga, tracing the lives and loves of the family over several generations. Emmanuel Gollantz finds that there is a high price to pay for that "wild lie which men call pride". A marriage full of promise presents challenges he could not have foreseen. The futures of Emmanuel's sons, Algernon and Max, are determined by affairs of world politics and of the heart.

A novel about Bill Warren, an ordinary man, and the "little people" of present-day London.

A man who is not Jewish, decides to pretend to be, because he feels that he would be an asset in his business. But he is not aware of the complications that will bring him.

Five years of the life of Patrick Eltham, and his emotional education and bow four women influenced him —a sensual actress, a coarse married woman, a flapper, and “the only woman for him.”

A romantic biography, the charming true story told in the form of a novel about the career of Michael Kelly the famous singer of the late eighteenth century. The Irish boy was the son of a Dublin wine merchant. As a child he possessed a voice so pure that it delighted not only his father's friends but even the roughs of the city streets. He travelled to Italy where he met Casanova and became a good friend of Mozart, in whose operas he performed, and sang for Charles Edward, The Young Pretender.