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Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter zieht sie zu ihrer Tante Patience und deren Mann Joss, Wirt des fiktiven Jamaica Inn. Tatsächlich ist Onkel Joss ein unberechenbarer Tyrann, für dessen üble Machenschaften sich auch Friedensrichter Bassat interessiert. Im Gasthaus verkehrt eine Schmugglerbande - und Joss' zwielichtiger Bruder Jem, ein Pferdedieb, in den Mary sich nichtsdestotrotz verliebt.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Cooper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA Janet Coombe longs for adventure and the freedom of the sea. She feels herself pulled fast under its spell, but in her heart she knows she must sacrifice her dreams; she is a woman, and her place is in the home. So she married Thomas, a boat-builder, and her...

Based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. "They don't know," he thought, "those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA The Rebecca Notebook provides an unparalleled insight into the mastery of a writer's craft and the inner vision that made du Maurier a household name. One of the great international bestsellers, Rebecca also inspired a film, a play and television dramas. This...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry...' The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole...

THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself.' By chance, two men - one English, the...

A brand-new recording of the classic work, narrated by Luke Thompson, who plays Bridgerton's Benedict. 'Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer. Was Rachel innocent or guilty?' Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful...

A brand-new recording of the classic work, narrated by Annabel Scholey, star of The Sixth Commandment. A tale of love and adventure from the internationally bestselling author of Rebecca. Lady Dona St Columb seems to revel in scandal: she is involved in every intrigue of the Restoration Court...

Große Mengen Vögel sammeln sich über der See und in der folgenden Nacht über seinem Haus. Nat wird attackiert. Im Dorf nimmt den Vorfall niemand weiter ernst. Die Vögel werden aggressiver, riesige Schwärme Möwen, Krähen und sogar Spatzen formieren sich und greifen mit offenbar tödlicher Absicht an – mittlerweile in ganz England. Die Regierung erklärt den Ausnahmezustand. Nat verbarrikadiert sich mit seiner Familie im Haus.

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy ... ' Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic...

She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA On her eighteenth birthday, Honor Harris meets Sir Richard Grenvile: he is proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. They have a rare connection, and with her beauty and sharp wit, she intrigues him too. But days before their wedding, tragedy strikes and...

Während andere Frauen Liebhaber haben, langweilt sich die schöne Marquise allein mit den Kindern am Meer. Es ist diese Langeweile, die sie schließlich in die Arme eines fremden Mannes treibt. Doch erst als der sie mit anstößigen Fotos erpresst, erkennt die Marquise, auf wen sie sich eingelassen hat. Wie viele Geschichten der englischen Schriftstellerin Daphne Du Maurier, vor allem bekannt durch ihren Roman "Rebecca", spielt auch diese Erzählung in der feinen Gesellschaft. Imogen Kogge leiht dieser abenteuerlichen wie romantischen Geschichte ihre Stimme.

A classic radio version of 'The Birds' which actually predates the Hitchcock film by 10 years! It is a classic horror adventure which is more faithful to the original Daphne Du Maurier novel. One of the classic radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

Nach dem tragischen Unfalltod ihrer kleinen Tochter fahren John Baxter und seine Frau Laura nach Venedig, um Abstand zu gewinnen. Kaum angelangt, deuten jedoch mysteriöse Vorfälle und Zeichen darauf hin, dass der Albtraum noch lange nicht zu Ende ist: Ein ältliches schottisches Schwesternpaar behauptet, mit der Seele ihrer toten Tochter in Verbindung zu stehen. Sie prophezeien John ein schreckliches Unglück.