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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard, comes Atonement meets The Paris Wife,  a brilliantly original, profoundly empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for ...

Welcome to the world of a grown-up Timothy Cratchit, as created by the astonishing imagination of author Louis Bayard.Mr. Timothy Cratchit has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Tha...

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**Now a major Netflix film starring Christian Bale and Gillian Anderson**April 19th, 1831. In two or three hours I'll be dead.So begins the chilling last testament of Gus Landor, a retired New York City police constable, whose numerous talents include code-breaking, riot control and the 'gloveless interrogation'. A young cadet has been found hanged at a military academy on the shores of the Hudson River. Before his body could be buried, howeve...

ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE." -People (Best Books of Summer)One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2022In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is "not to be a housewife, " but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, her resolution begins to falter. Soon the two are flirting over secret phone...

A dazzling Dickensian thriller set in a Victorian underworld inspired by Charles Dickens.

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An atmospheric historical mystery that is full of drama and unexpected twists. From the events of one seemingly ordinary afternoon, Louis Bayard conjures a tale as haunting as it is entertaining.

1830: An der angesehenen West Point Academy wird ein junger Kadett tot aufgefunden - er wurde erhängt und sein Herz herausgeschnitten. Keinesfalls darf die Öffentlichkeit von dem grauenhaften Verbrechen erfahren, so beauftragt man August Landor, einen ehemaligen New Yorker Polizeidetektiv, mit den Ermittlungen. Schon bald folgen weitere brutale Morde, und der Fall wird immer rätselhafter. Doch Landor erhält unerwartet Hilfe - von einem jungen ...

Bestselling author Louis Bayard is back with a brilliantly wrought, witty, and sensitive novel about the young Jacqueline Bouvier before she became that Jackie - and about a marriage that almost never happened.

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Riveting . . . Enticing." -The Washington Post "Exquisite." -People "A triumph of a novel." -Bookreporter.com "Rich, fascinating, and romantic." -NewsdayA Washington Post Bestseller * A Indie Next Pick * An Apple Books Best of the Month for April * A People Magazine Best Book of the Week When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's short list to be president. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutan...

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