Two sisters. United by friendship. Divided by disgrace. In a powerful saga from Pam Evans, The Tideway Girls reveals a country torn apart by the Great War - from the quiet fishing villages of Essex to the beating heart of London, the population struggles to find hope...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2009-10-01

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Growing up in a small seaside town, Marcie Brooks dreams of owning a Mary Quant mini-skirt, the Beatles, and escape. Instead she's stuck in a dead-end job selling candy floss to tourists and with a crazy family. Her grandmother sees ghosts, her step-mother is unable to...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2009-03-19

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When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. But despite the threat of being turned out onto the streets by the unscrupulous tallyman and the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2009-02-26

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It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school.Jack and...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2009-01-29

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This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across time, telling the tale of three generations of women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the consequences. It opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-12-29

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Bleak House in half the timeEsther Summerson finds herself caught up in the frustrations of a seemingly unending law-case involving her generous guardian Mr Jarndyce and her wards Ada and Richard.Brought into contact with poverty and disease, Esther suffers a serious...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-12-09

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Abandoned. Olivia Copley is an orphan. Sent to live with her uncle, the ruthless mine owner Hesley Mexton, she soon discovers that a house ruled by men can not only be desperate: it can be cruel.Humiliated. A new governess, Harriet Trent, offers Olivia a glimpse of...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2008-12-04

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'Excellent! FIVE STARS for sure!' Reader review ?????'I LOVED this book, it was literally unputdownable, I finally finished it at 1.30am one morning' Reader review ?????'I so loved reading this book . . . Fabulous . . . The last fifty pages or so are heartstoppingly...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-11-27

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Despite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, eighteen-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in life. Until her father's feud with a fellow bargeman threatens to destroy everything. To save them all, Rosina agrees to marry Harry, the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-11-03

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From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes beautifully written, enthralling and captivating novel that asks whether friendships really can endure through thick and thin. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2008-10-23

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'Art, antiques and romance are the ingredients: Titchmarsh boils the pot to a fine froth' - Saga MagazineJamie Ballantyne and Artemis King were never meant to fall in love. The feud between their families has run for three generations.But whatever Jamie's head might...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-10-02

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The village school is a hundred years old and headmistress Miss Read is fully occupied planning the festivities.VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Fairacre just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of the village school. Such a centenary should be celebrated,...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : Fairacre
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Miss Read's future as headmistress hangs in the balance as the village school is threatened with closure.'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so many--''Animals?' prompted Mr Roberts...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : Fairacre
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Dramatic events in Turnham Malpas make for a steamy summer.A mysterious visitor has arrived in Turnham Malpas. What can Titus Bellamy want? Is it true, the villagers ask each other, that he has discovered a medieval charter which grants the right to hold a market on...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : TURNHAM MALPAS
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After a long winter, summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her village friends.SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2008-09-18
Collection : Fairacre
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A wonderfully atmospheric novel of love and life in the 1960s from the queen of the East End sagaGrowing up in Bethnal Green, Charlotte longs for the day she's old enough to put on her gladrags and be part of the swinging sixties. But her parents have other plans and...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2008-09-18

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In the hardest of times, can their dreams ever come true?After her devious husband Billy tries to sell her at a wife sale, Lily Fowler finds herself alone, frightened and heavily pregnant on the streets of Hull.Running out of options when even the workhouse turns her...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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_________________________________A sweeping tale of loss and love set in turn-of-the-century London, from beloved bestselling author Dilly CourtWhen Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage....

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother's effects she realises that the past she has always been so sure of has been built on a tissue of lies....

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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_______________________________When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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