RIPPER

DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE

An orphan brought up by a Victorian spinster in Chile, Eliza Sommers falls in love with Joaquin. When he goes to California to seek his fortune in the gold rush, Eliza follows, but when she finally hears news of him she has to decide what true love is.

EVA LUNA

Isabel Allende has placed her heroine against the background of a turbulent South American country where love, politics, tragedy and disaster shape her life.

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS

Set in an unnamed Latin American country with a turbulent history, this is also the history of the Trueba family; their passions, struggles and secrets of three generations.

MY INVENTED COUNTRY: A MEMOIR

In this memoir Isabel Allende explores events of her own life and those of her homeland, Chile. She takes the reader on a highly personal tour of the country she loves and lived in until the assassination of her cousin, President Salvador Allende.

OF LOVE AND SHADOWS

Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and summary executions, this is the story of the passionate affair between Irene Beltran, a journalist and photographer Francisco Leal. It is also about their search for justice and truth.

PORTRAIT IN SEPIA

Despite growing up a rich, privileged young woman in San Francisco, Aurora del Valle is unhappy. Haunted by nightmares and childhood memories she travels to Chile to discover what had such an effect on her early life.

STORIES OF EVA LUNA

Rolf Carle asks his lover, Eva Luna, to tell him a story, and so she begins to weave for him stories of passion, love and death, all set in the landscapes of South America.

ZORRO

In Southern California in the late eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is the child of a Spanish aristocrat and a Shoshone warrior. When he witnesses injustice, especially to Native Americans, he joins a secret movement dedicated to helping the powerless, so taking his first steps to becoming a hero, - and Zorro!