Sally Beauman Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

England 1922: Um sich von einer schweren Krankheit zu erholen, reist die junge Lucy mit ihrer Gouvernante nach Ägypten. Bald schon ist sie fasziniert von der Schönheit des fernen Landes und dem illustren Kreis bedeutender Archäologen und ihrer Familien. In Frances findet sie eine beste Freundin, gemeinsam erleben die beiden die aufregenden Entdeckungen im Tal der Pyramiden mit und erforschen die rätselhafte Welt der Erwachsenen – eine Welt aus Halbwahrheiten und dunklen Geheimnissen. Noch Jahre später werfen die Geheimnisse, die ihren Anfang in Ägypten nehmen, ihre Schatten auf Lucys Leben und gefährden ihre große Liebe ...

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.

Het is zomer 1967. In een oud, vervallen huis in Suffolk maakt een kunstschilder een portret van de dertienjarige Maisie en haar twee zussen. Tijdens het poseren vertelt Maisie hem over haar familie en haar idool Daniel, een jonge zigeuner uit het dorp. Is haar idyllische verhaal echter wel de juiste weergave van de werkelijkheid ? Die zomer verandert het leven van de drie zussen onherroepelijk en verschrikkelijk. Na meer dan twintig jaar keert Daniel terug naar het dorp , belaagd door wanhopige herinneringen en schuldgevoelens.

In het huwelijksleven van een oudere man en een jong meisje doet de invloed ten kwade van de eerste vrouw zich gelden via haar vroegere kamenier en vertrouwde.

In 'Rebecca' van Daphne du Maurier trouwt een meisje met een rijke, oudere man en moet concurreren met diens overleden beeldschone eerste vrouw. Twintig jaar later duikt een op Rebecca lijkende jongeman op.

Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encounter then with Rowland's friend, Colin Lascelles, a man much less innocent than he seems, quickly teaches hear that the best-laid plans can go delightfully awry... In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence is also trying to rebuild her life. Pursued by a stalker for the past five years, still to her ex-husband, the celebrated film director Thomas Court, she retreats with her son to the precincts of the exclusive - and haunted - Conrad apartment building. But will it provide her the security she so desperately seeks, and will she and her husband be albe to lay to rest the ghosts of their past? Lindsay's and Natasha's lives become inextricably entangled; when the cast of characters gathers for Thanksgiving at the sinister Conrad building, anything can happen, for romance and retribution, marrige and murder are in the air.

Een jonge vrouw heeft er haar eigen redenen voor om de familie, die haar na de dood van haar vader liefdevol heeft opgenomen, te gronde te willen richten.

"A DELICIOUS STEW OF CRIME, PASSION, HIGH FASHION, AND TRAGIC LOVE." —Affaire de Coeur A reclusive couturiere of originality and passion, Maria Cazarès is a legend shrouded in mystery. Around her swirl rumor and counterrumor, whispers of shocking secrets and taboos broken. . . . "COMPULSIVELY READABLE AND UTTERLY ENGROSSING." —The Times (London) When the glitterati assemble in Paris for the new collections, a fatal passion established three decades before in sultry New Orleans fulfills its tragic destiny. Two journalists, Rowland McGuire and Gini Hunter, pick up the heady scent of an unfolding scandal. . . . "SUSPENSEFUL AND COMPLETELY ENTERTAINING." —Booklist As the world waits breathlessly for the new Cazarès collection, the search for a missing innocent will reach its pulsingly suspenseful climax. And at last, blood red truths will be revealed. . . . A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild® and the Doubleday Book Club®

Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery.

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

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