Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family (Jones Melvyn)(Paperback)

Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family (Jones Melvyn)(Paperback)

It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of

Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain (Dooley Terence)(Paperback)

In recent years, the role of women in country houses and estates across Ireland and the UK has been the focus of greater attention. Chatelaines, mothers, wives, daughters, widows, sisters, housekeepers, and maids were ever-present figures in the microcosm of the country house. New research has

Big House - The Story of a Country House and its Family (Sykes Christopher Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir - Belim Victoria

In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past

The Hangman's House (Tompa Andrea)(Pevná vazba)

Set in the 1970s and '80s, The Hangman's House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania. Those were extraordinary times of oppression, poverty and hopelessness, and Andrea Tompa's latest novel depicts everyday life under the brutal communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu,

The House of Getty (Miller Russell)(Paperback)

The true story of the Getty family as featured in the TV series Trust and the movie All the Money in the World Boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue; at the centre stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the grandfather, an eccentric oil billionaire believed

Mouse House (Burningham John)(Paperback / softback)

In the house there lives a family: a mum, a dad, a girl and a boy. a secret mouse family is living there too, who only come out when everyone else is asleep. One day they are spotted and the mouse catcher is called ... Will they escape in time?A story of home and hope from picture-book genius,

Hold: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth (Chader Steve)(Paperback)

Teaches the proven, reliable real estate investing process to achieve financial wealth: find - the right property for the right terms and at the right price; analyze - an offer to make sure the numbers and terms make sense; buy - an investment property where you make money going in; and grow - your

Mark of the Raven (Busse Morgan L.)(Paperback)

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather

My Funny Family Moves House (Higgins Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The fifth book in the hilarious and heart-warming young series about the chaotic life of the Butterfield

A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House (Sopel Jon)(Paperback)

Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are moving at warp speed. The one thing absent from

A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House (Sopel Jon)(Paperback)

Welcome to the White House.At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are moving at warp speed. The one thing absent from the

Murders at White House Farm - Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation. (Lee Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

The Sunday Times bestseller The definitive story behind the ITV factual drama White House Farm about the horrific killings that took place in 1985. On 7 August 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons Nicholas and Daniel were discovered shot to death at White House

The House That Lou Built (Respicio Mae)(Paperback)

'If this book were a house, the rooms would be filled with warmth, family, and friendship.' --Erin Entrada Kelly, author of the Newbery Medal winner Hello, Universe; The Land of Forgotten Girls; and Blackbird Fly A coming-of-age story that explores culture and family, forgiveness and friendship,

Keeping the House (Cin Tice)(Paperback)

An electrifying debut novel, at once a family saga and a tale of the London underworld

The Wicked Marquis - Edward Phillips Oppenheim - e-kniha

eBook:,As tenants and estate owners, the lives of the Marquis of Mandeleys and the Vont family have been intertwined for generations. The relationship has turned sour in recent years, following the Marquis' interest in current tenant Richard Vont’s daughter Marcia. Taking her to America, the

The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Hochschild Arlie Russell)(Paperback)

The national bestseller that put 'work/family balance' in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author.When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the

Fall of the House of Wilde - Oscar Wilde and His Family (O'Sullivan Emer)(Paperback / softback)

This Tumult (Preston Caroline)(Paperback)

The Tottenham family is falling apart. There is no money to maintain the crumbling house and farm in County Westmeath, so decisions have to be made. Brothers Nick and Tony, with no prospect of a future in rural Ireland, make the long journey to their uncle's ranch in Australia. As World War Two

Love Without End - A Story of Heloise and Abelard (Bragg Melvyn)(Paperback / softback)

Melvyn Bragg gives new life to one of the most remarkable love stories in history: the passionate, enduring romance between Heloise and

The Seventh Seal (Bragg Melvyn)(Paperback)

The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites

The Bride of Lammermoor (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter

Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England (Brand Emily)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling family story of aristocratic decadence and

Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit (Davis Clay)(Paperback)

FLIP, the third book in the National Bestselling Millionaire Real Estate Series (More than 500,000 copies sold!) FLIP provides a detailed, step-by-step process to analyze each investment, identify the best improvements, accurately estimate the costs and intelligently oversee the construction. It