Rachel Billington Books

The great diversity of Spain is captured here in a series of breathtaking photographs accompanying a century of travel writing from the pages of the New York Times.

Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II, who've grown up in widely differing circumstances, form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years. Connie is the youngest member of a large Irish family and Ireland's too small to contain her. She is beautiful and impulsive. Men love her, while she roars through life, never looking before she leaps - sometimes onto rocks. Nina is English and middle-class, the shy, thoughtful, daughter of an army officer. She marries her boyhood love and has two children before realising how unfulfilled she is, and that painting is her true passion. Fay is American and Jewish, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. She's the ambitious one, who fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor before admitting a darker, more complex side to her nature. Through love, marriage, children, work, divorce and tragedy, this is a beautifully written and compelling novel of friendship.

On a bright summer's day in West London, an attractive, young woman is viciously stabbed by a stranger and left for dead. Her attacker is caught and sent to prison. Lydia's body slowly heals, leaving thin white scars, while her mind's repair takes longer.

A poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli. Arthur Tarrant, an Oxford graduate headed for his uncle's law firm, changes path leaving behind his fiancee Sylvia and joins the army, destined for Gallipoli. There, his life becomes entwined with that of Fred Chaffey, a country boy from Dorset. Glory tells of the fatal errors made by the leaders of the army, the heroism of the men, and the struggles to understand the situation while nurturing relationships in the most strange and difficult of circumstances.

Retells the story of Christ's birth, from the Annunciation to the visit of the Magi.

Wkraczając w świat wiejskich rezydencji i nianiek na przełomie wieku, śledzimy życie Violet Hesketh – od dzieciństwa, przez dwie wojny światowe, szalone lata dwudzieste, depresję, aż po lata społecznych i politycznych zawirowań, do spełnienia jej ambicji jako czołowej postaci publicznej i polityka w latach 70. XX wieku. W miarę jak życia Violet, jej córki, przyjaciół i kochanków splatają się przez 70 lat, w ich ambicjach i pragnieniach, nadziejach i obawach, odzwierciedla się zmieniający oblicze narodu.