Sally Beauman Books

The reader is taken into an isolated grey stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast with these lines, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the terrible events that occurred as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she scarcely knew. For there were phantoms of a time gone but not forgotten in every part of the vast house, a past devotedly preserved by Mrs. Danvers, the malevolent housekeeper: a suite pristine and unspoiled, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current residents. The second Mrs. de Winter travelled in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, intent on uncovering the deepest secrets and shattering the most terrifying illusions.

Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1987, DESTINY is an international bestseller and has been widely translated. schovat popis

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.

If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd come back to haunt him. Now, it seems, she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the 'truth', has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .

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

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