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  • Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Series series Fortunes of War
    One of Wall Street Journal’s “5 Best of World War II Fiction”A BBC miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth BranaghTHE WW2 FICTION CLASSIC: “A fantastically tart and readable” historical fiction novel about life and marriage in late 1930s Eastern Europe (Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith)The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and comp... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • School for Love

    by Olivia Manning ...
    An orphaned teen comes-of-age in 1945 Jerusalem in this “brilliantly perceptive” historical fiction novel offering a portrait of Middle Eastern politics and life on the precipice (New York Times).“Olivia Manning’s work has been out of sight for decades, but her newly reissued School for Love is about to charm and startle a whole new generation of readers.” —O, The Oprah MagazineJerusalem in 1945 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Series series Fortunes of War
    The classic WW2 historical fiction saga—hailed as “among the very best fiction about the Second World War”—continues with this second trilogy following the Pringles family (Sunday Times).As the Nazi army advances, English ex-pats are caught overseas in the Middle East amid personal battles between courage and fear, love and betrayal.Olivia Manning returns to the story of the young English couple ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Doves Of Venus

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it. ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

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    Fortunes of War

    A BBC Radio 4 Full cast dramatisation of the complete Balkan Trilogy

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Narrated by Joanna Lumley, Honeysuckle Weeks, James Fleet, Khalid Abdalla, Alex Wyndham, John Rowe, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    A sweeping adaptation of Olivia Manning's classic war novels, starring Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle Weeks'A rare and many-layered pleasure' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph1939, and naive young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest with her husband, Guy - just as Europe is about to rip itself apart. She believes she knows everything about the man she has married, but soon realises she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Fortunes Of War: The Great Fortune

    The Great Fortune

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Narrated by Emilia Fox ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 17 min

    Set under the gathering storm that is the Second World War in Romania, The Great Fortune is the first action-packed, romantic and fascinating book of The Balkan Trilogy.Guy and Harriet Pringle marry after a six month courtship. Still getting to know each other, they arrive in Bucharest, where Guy is employed in the English Department of the University of Bucharest.Over the following years Guy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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