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  • Illyrian Spring

    by Anne Bridge ...
    'Excellent . . . at once romantic and tough, absurd yet realistic, escapist yet down-to-earth.' -- Jenny Uglow Grace Kilmichael, the well-known painter, is running away. She's escaping her husband, and his wandering eye, her bullying grown-up children, and the tiresomeness of being herself. En route to Split and Dubrovnik, Grace travels through Paris and Venice, and to the glories of Torcello. ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lighthearted Quest

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 1

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 1 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    When Julia Probyn's cousin and childhood friend Colin cuts off all contact with his family, it is down to Julia to find him. Setting sail for Morocco – the last place he was seen – and using her occupation as a journalist as a cover, Julia is ready for a fairly lighthearted quest. But Julia wasn't counting on the level of secrecy surrounding her cousin's disappearance.With the British consulate ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD

  • Four-Part Setting

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Fleeing from her failed marriage, Rose Pelham seeks sanctuary in Peking, China, with her cousins, Anastasia and Antony Lydiard. The romantic attentions of Captain Hargreaves are a welcome distraction from her woes, but in the society of Anglicised 1920's Peking, it is hard for such relationships not to draw notice and create scandal.A long trek to the 'Mountain of a Hundred Flowers' offers a ... Read more

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  • A Place to Stand

    by Ann Bridge ...
    First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fiancé. During the course of her activities she falls in love with a Polish ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • The Tightening String

    by Ann Bridge ...
    This novel records the lives of a group of English diplomats in Budapest from the Spring of 1940, up to the entry of the Germans which compels them to leave in Easter 1941. Crossing the Russian frontier en route for Moscow and the U.S.A., an episode at once dramatic and distinctly comic, sees the characters' main pre-occupation as less about their own predicament than the desperate and sustained ... Read more

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  • Frontier Passage

    by Ann Bridge ...
    A story of Spain and its Civil War, and a pair of star-crossed lovers.This new novel has many virtues, all of them attractive -- picturesque montage, an appealing cast, substantial-and often exciting -- action, and her usual quality writing. - Kirkus ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD

  • Singing Waters

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Ann Bridge takes the little-known country of Albania for her background recreating the primitive grandeur of the country. The Albanian way of life demonstrates a noble standard of values that is rapidly disappearing under the pressure of modern materialism.Our protagonist is an unhappy and disillusioned young widow who travels to Albania as the result of a chance encounter on the Istanbul express. ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD

  • The Dark Moment

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Feride and Nilüfer lead a elegant and comfortable life in Turkish aristocratic society until their lives are turned upside down by Atatürk's fight for independence after WWI. Finding strength and courage they didn't know they had, the women become pioneers for the freedom of their countrywomen.When their husbands leave to join general Atatürk in the fight for a new Turkey, Feride and Nilüfer dress ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD

  • The Dangerous Islands

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 4

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 4 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    Julia Probyn – journalist, amateur sleuth and occasional spy – is sailing off the west coast of Scotland with her cousin Colin when they stumble upon a suspicious sky-blue pole, rising from the ground on the desolate island of Erinish Beg. Colin, who works for the British Secret Service, immediately suspects Russian surveillance.Military Intelligence sends Colonel Jamieson to investigate this find ... Read more

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  • The Ginger Griffin

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another.The Ginger Griffin combines romance and ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD

  • The Episode At Toledo

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 6

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 6 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    In the beautiful countryside of Portugal, erstwhile British secret agent Julia Probyn is to attend a royal wedding. But her former acquaintance, Countess Hetta Páloczy, the young Hungarian refugee, unwittingly gets them both tangled in Cold War intrigue. After Hetta accidentally uncovers a Communist plot to assassinate an American admiral in Spain, she is a marked woman yet again and must flee to ... Read more

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  • The Malady in Madeira

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 7

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 7 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband's mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on a top-secret mission for British Intelligence. No sooner does Julia arrive at Madeira with her infant son and his devoted Nanny, however, than a series of strange, sinister, ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD