This is a compelling novel of counterfeit perfumes and counterfeit emotions . . . of twists and turns of the story and the knife. In it, there is a romantic flash of green at sunset--and the deadly flash of steel at the end.
This 1970s version of the cover of Winston Graham's second Poldark novel, Demelza, keeps cracking me up. I wouldn't have touched it in a million years, with its emphasis on lustiness and defiant love and whatnot. I would though, have been missing out.As I observed recently, I was sold on the idea...
Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has looked forward to turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict, and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin.
Poldark series; Ross, Demelza, Jeremy and Warleggan by Winston GrahamAddictive! This is the word to describe what happens when you start reading the first book in thisseries. Winston Graham has written historical fiction at its best. Cornwall in the end of the 18th century, where people are mainl...
The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "...
Book 7 in the Poldark Saga and where do I begin. Well......Morwenna becomes a widow after her brother in law sees Ossie and his wife in bed. Ross is still undecided on whether he wife is really his wife and finds dissatisfaction in many parts of his life. He spends his time between London parl...
This book is the sixth one of twelve series of "Corwall" series has been written by Winston Graham. Four swans means for women: Demelza, Elizabeth, Verity and Caroline. Graham introduce a new character in this book; Hugh Armitage. A person who was saved from prison by Ross (Probably after that Ro...
This book was published in 1973, twenty years after the previous volume. It covers the years 1794-5. There is a bit of a change in style, but the continuation of the saga is just as good. Here are some of the main points of the story:Aunt Agatha is approaching her 100th birthday.There is a lot ab...
Well a cancelled wedding that goes ahead 12 months later, an elopement actively encouraged by Ross much to the disappointment of Demelza as she remembers Ross taking something by force. I have the feeling she knows all about it but it is only hinted at!Demelza puts two and two together re the rob...
An excellent suspense novel published in 1961 by the much loved author of the “Poldark” series, told as a first person account by a beautiful, clever thief named Marnie Elmer who is trapped into marriage by one of her victims, Mark Rutland. It’s clear that Mark’s motives are purely from the heart...
Winston Graham was not only just about "Poldark" andhistorical stories, he was also a dab hand at psychologicalthrillers like "Marnie" and "The Sleeping Partner". MikeGranville is so engrossed in his "top secret" job that hedoesn't realise his marriage to Lyn is going sour until she suddenly leav...
Poldark series; Ross, Demelza, Jeremy and Warleggan by Winston GrahamAddictive! This is the word to describe what happens when you start reading the first book in thisseries. Winston Graham has written historical fiction at its best. Cornwall in the end of the 18th century, where people are mainl...
The only question was when. The physicians said it might be a week yet; but William and Henry, watching each other across the sick bed, thought, what if he dies without sharing out, what if he sinks into a coma and slips away and nothing settled? Twice they’d tried to get ...
When she put her key in the door she found it unlocked. It was late for Edda. Then she could smell his cigar smoke. He was sitting turning the pages of a French novel, a glass with brandy in it by his side. His pince-nez glinted as he turned and nodded and half smiled. “ Y...
In the open car whiffs of lilac and wallflower surfaced through the tyre-tarmac-petrol smells. Houses glimmered like lighted barges, Euclidean problems jostling against each other full of unsolved areas and unmeasured angles. After another hour in the studio while he had t...
Paul had asked me to go with him. The two gentlemen we were consulting were Mr Freeman and Mr Kidstone. Freeman, the senior partner, was a wizened, grey-haired man with a high frail voice and a fastidious expression as if a lifetime of acquaintance with the secrets of his ...
I had been too long on my own, making decisions in a vacuum, struggling just to stay alive. It seemed like a month, not two days. He was alone in a little office place, not unlike the one I had just left. I collapsed in a swivel chair, while the old woman went into voluble...
‘Mrs Talbot? Do I know her? Was she the lady waiting when I came in? Ask Mr Forbes if he’ll see Mr Smith when he comes.’ Philippa was shown in. ‘Why, Miss Shelley,’ said Mr Frobisher, rising. ‘ I didn’t recognize you. Of course, it must be six years. You’re Mrs Talbot now?...
DEAR GILES [it ran]. Thanks for yours of the 19th. I saw a Treasury official about your case yesterday, but he was not too hopeful. Permits can only be issued on health grounds if it can be shown that the condition of the patient’s health necessitates his going or staying ...
The Hôtel Saada, built only five years ago, collapsed entirely, going down as the ground opened under it. The Mahraba, where Smith and Garrett were staying, split down the centre but remained drunkenly upright, masonry from it falling all over the garden. The Préfecture, opposite the Saada but bu...
She was only tiny – nine years old – and no doubt, Desmond said, a pawn in some political game. Portugal was in chaos, and England and France were involved – for once on the same side – trying to bring a measure of political peace to the warring factions. What purpose there was, if any, in Queen ...
And so, my dear Evelyn, this awful tragedy refuses to go away. She was a popular girl who seemed to attract attention wherever she went, and her death continues to cast a shadow over the college, and I believe to some extent over the whole university … He put his pen down, brushed some tobacco as...
One after another of the books I wrote were Book Club choices, and paperback sales abounded. In England sales were steady but unexciting by comparison. When Marnie hit the headlines in 1962 I remarked in a press interview at the time that I was ‘ the most successful unknown novelist in England’, ...