Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait of their marriage, a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life and a delightfully ironic comedy of manners in a breaking world.

Bucharest, Autumn 1939: newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle arrive in a city alive with contrasts and rumour, on edge with wavering loyalties and the tension of war. Guy, teaching at the university, throws himself into Bucharest life, embracing all around him. Harriet, struggling to adjust to married life and to her husband's friendship with the over-attentive Sophie, finds life in a city cut off from the outside world less straightforward than she first anticipated.

Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.

'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times'One of the most gifted English writers of her generation' New York TimesAs Rommel advances in wartorn...

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorbed in his work, leading Harriet to seek the attention of a handsome young office...

From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the Indian Ocean. Too late they discover how it seethes with unrest and intrigue. Yet now when they need each other, the sullen, muttering forest seems only to intensify their differences.

'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times'One of the most gifted English writers of her generation' New York TimesAs Rommel advances in wartorn...

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 builds an eclectic network of friends and acquaintances. These c...

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 knows nothing.Guy is o...

Two fan-favorite romance stories from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Mann and Olivia Gates.The Maverick PrinceHe's known as Tony Medina, Texas shipping magnate. But then his royal heritage is splashed across the tabloids, and his lover, Shannon Crawford, is furious! Tony whisks her away to his secret island retreat, claiming he's guarding her from the paparazzi. But his true goal is to win Shannon back…by any means necessary.

Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection!HOLD ME, COWBOYby Maisey YatesCopper RidgeRich-as-sin cowboy Sam McCormack wants nothing to do with ice princess Madison West, but when they’re snowed in together at a mountain retreat, their red-hot attraction...

To Tame a SheikhHe’d noticed her across a crowded room and in that instant Sheikh Shaheen Aal Shalaan wanted her. With just a few words, Shaheen had his mystery woman in his bed, where she awakened passions he’d long denied. His lineage demanded he take a wife of the throne’s choosing. Yet how could he turn away from the woman who carried his baby?His Thirty-Day FiancéeHe’d caught her red-handed…and Duarte Medina would use this to h...