A Whiff of Scandal

A Whiff of Scandal

Author: Carole Matthews

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1405523603

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The riotously funny novel from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller 'She's had men popping in and out of there all day. They're more regular than our cuckoo clock.' When Rose escapes from London and her handsome and charming ex-lover, she has no idea her occupation as an aromatherapist will cause such a scandal in her new country village. All she wants is a bit of peace and quiet, but her new neighbours soon ensure that her life is more chaotic than ever before. But that may be because Rose is falling in love . . . Your favourite authors love Carole Matthews: 'A gorgeous novel that will delight' KATIE FFORDE 'Fun, fantastic and brimming with Matthews magic' MILLY JOHNSON 'A life-affirming story full of joy and hope' CATHY BRAMLEY 'An irresistibly warm-hearted story' TRISHA ASHLEY 'Warm, witty and hopeful - I was charmed' SARAH MORGAN 'The queen of funny, feel good fiction' MIKE GAYLE


A Whiff of Scandal

A Whiff of Scandal

Author: Robyn Chalmers

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780645121834

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To save her family, she'll risk ruinMost ladies dream of finding a husband, but no knight is coming to save Daphne and her sister from genteel poverty. To make ends meet, she sells perfumes to the Ton using the persona of Lady Spellwater to create allure and protect their reputation.But when she discovers a devilishly handsome man is hunting her, all her well-laid plans unravel.To catch a thief, he'll risk his empireHugh, Earl Mandeville is hunting the elusive perfumer to recover a rare and expensive ingredient she uses that is being stolen from his family business before that business collapses. He has her scent and is determined to have her lead him to the thieves.But when Hugh finally tracks her down, he finds the beautiful and spirited Lady Spellwater irresistible.Now that he has caught Daphne, he finds he wants to keep her forever. Even when he thinks it is her father who is the thief. Is it possible to choose between justice and love?A Whiff of Scandal is a sweet regency romance.


Brecht at the Opera

Brecht at the Opera

Author: Joy H. Calico

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0520942817

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From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht’s writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstück in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.


Brass Diva

Brass Diva

Author: Caryl Flinn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0520260228

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A comprehensive biography of the life and career of American star of stage and film musicals, Ethel Merman, that chronicles her childhood, family, early film appearances, and success in the entertainment industry.


Strange Music

Strange Music

Author: Malcolm Macdonald

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1780102240

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They came to England to start a new life – but the horrors of the past are never far behind . . . - In spring 1949, Felix Breit and his new wife Angela, both concentration camp survivors, join eight other families in a post-war experiment in communal living in the Dower House, an imposing Georgian mansion in Hertfordshire. But the closeness of community life can stir up petty resentments, personality clashes and inappropriate flirtations – at the height of this drama of sex and power, an unexpected figure from the past arrives with disturbing news .


The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter

Author: Lauren Willig

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1250056284

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In 1920s Europe, a young woman discovers that her supposedly dead father is still alive and living in London with his new socially prominent family, whose happiness she sets out to destroy


La Comtesse

La Comtesse

Author: Joan Smith

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1610840690

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London society buzzed around the scandalous Comtesse de la Tour. Lord Dashwood was assigned to discover whether the beautiful red-head was a French spy—or perhaps something just as unsavory to his enchanted vision. At one moment Renée seemed as chaste as a nun, at another as flirtatious as a courtesan… Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett


Singing Like Germans

Singing Like Germans

Author: Kira Thurman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1501759868

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In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public's understanding of who had the right to play them. Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. Thurman explores the tension between the supposedly transcendental powers of classical music and the global conversations that developed about who could perform it. An interdisciplinary and transatlantic history, Singing Like Germans suggests that listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial and gendered categories are constantly made and unmade.


The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour

Author: Paula Hawkins

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Published: 2024-10-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0385700199

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The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . . A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.