Haunting novel about time and identity set in post-war 'fast set' Britain.  A brilliant new novel that is quite different from the wonderful Ferney but which has some of the same qualities. Memory and coincidence play a strong part as the narrator, himself trying to escape a passionate relationship, endeavours to piece together the remarkable life of the man who used to own an old trunk, stuffed with letters, bought in a street market. Racing driver, lover, officer, but maybe not gentleman, con-man, liar, thief -- as the fascinating portrait of the trunk's owner evolves, so the narrator is drawn deeper and deeper into a story with strange connections to his own life.

Knowing Max

Literature & Fiction

James Long

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Ferney

Harper-collins Publishers

Hard News

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Signet Books

PLOT AGAINST PEPYS

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber and Faber

Four Early Works on Motivation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jeremy, Bentham

Francis Hutcheson

Psychology & Counseling

Scholars' Facsimilies & Reprint

Eastern Proverbs and Emblems: Illustrating Old Truths

Routledge

Cheese And Cheese-making, Butter And Milk, With Special Reference To Continental Fancy Cheeses

General Books

One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written,Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life. When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney.

Simon Schuster Ltd

A suspenseful chronicle of late-seventeenth-century England profiles the religious terrorism and political tensions that challenged the period, describing the efforts of secretary of the admiralty Samuel Pepys to investigate his mysterious imprisonment for treason. 20,000 first printing.

The Plot Against Pepys: The Untold Story of Espionage and Intrigue in the Tower of London

Ben Long

Historical

Overlook Press

A novel for anyone who's ever believed that two people are destined for each other, that passion has no end, and that true love never dies... It was an accidental detour inspired by one of Gally's frequent panic attacks that sent her husband, Mike, down a twisting lane to the abandoned country cottage. From the moment she saw it, Gally felt a peace she hadn't known in years and the inexplicable sense that she had finally come home. As her husband works at their new home's restoration, Gally finds herself growing unexpectedly close to an eighty-three-year-old man named Ferney. How could she become so attached to a virtual stranger? And why does Ferney seem to know her better than she knows herself? Through Ferney's old stories Gally finds herself transported to a distant past where two lovers made a vow even death could not break. Soon Gally will face a life-and-death dilemma that has followed her and Ferney down through the centuries. It will be a moment of decision that will forever change not only their lives but the lives of all they touch.

Quercus

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