A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne’s tobacconist shop, with two boys in hot pursuit, saying she’s a thief. Albert chases the boys away, and though Tess does not realise it, this incident changes her life.Tess lives with her grandmother,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-08-01

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London, 1888. Tessa d'Arblay is the 22-year-old daughter of an eccentric widower-clergyman living in the East End. The household is managed by her even more eccentric aunt, a situation that leads Tessa to seek the help of one Dr. Segal, a noted Victorian brain...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Happy and content with a beautiful wife and thriving family, successful trader Bram is determined to help his two friends Mitchell and Dougal find wives.In England, Eleanor Prescott has not forgotten the ship's captain who was a true friend to her. Dougal McBride told...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-07-04
Collection : The Traders
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When Aran Campion leaves her sleepy Irish fishing village for faraway London, she wants both to escape and to grow.  Soon her job, her music, her Saturday market stall make her life too full for the love and marriage that once seemed to be her destiny.  Until she meets...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-06-20

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Five brilliant novels from one of the world's best-loved authors.Includes: QUENTINS; NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS; WHITETHORN WOODS; HEART AND SOUL; MINDING FRANKIE.

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2013-06-06

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Michael Taylor's third Black Country novel about the Kite family of Dudley is set in the colourful world of dance bands in the 1920s. Maxine Kite - the talented musician of the family - is overjoyed to land a job as a cellist with Birmingham's orchestra. Brent...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-05-09

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Michael Taylor's fourth Black Country is the story of Clover Beckitt, her family and their struggles to turn their home brew pub in Dudley, the Jolly Collier, into a thriving business. Clover is surprised when her mother announces that after fifteen years of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-05-09

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Can love survive the worst betrayal of all?From the moment Elizabeth Nugent arrives to live on his family’s farm in Shropshire, Richard Wilde is in love with her. And as they grow up, it seems like nothing can keep them apart. But as the Second World War rages, Richard...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-04-26

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Even half a world apart, they are destined to be together . . .When 12-year-old Daisy Smith steals a carrot for Jackie Murphy, an Irish barrow-boy, a love affair begins which will last for both their lives.Even when Jackie's family leave for Australia, Daisy cannot...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-04-25

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To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own... VioletThe new night sister is not all that she seems. Who is she and what dark secret is she...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Three girls all turn up for work, the day war is declared...Dotty has never known a life outside of the orphanage where she grew up, let alone love. Lucy is the sole carer of her little sister, now that her brother has gone to war. Annabelle has led a life of privilege...

Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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'If Esmee Jackson had learned one lesson in life, it was to keep away from men.'Esmee is beautiful and exotic, the illegitimate daughter of a slave and a slave trader. As she grows into a striking young women, men are haunted by her loveliness.Her father, Captain...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-11

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As the English Civil War rages in 1642, a young Irish girl called Sorcha O'Neill is separated from her family at the siege of Carrickmain Castle. She fears the same fate as many of her compatriots: death at the hands of the English. Salvation arrives in the unlikely...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-11

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The Isle of Wight in the 1860s. Meg is far from home and has a sole purpose in life: to protect her child. Poor and desperate, and dealing with secrets from her past and facing a near impossible future, Meg will risk anything to keep her baby son safe. Even if it...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-11

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Lizzie Galpine has long had her heart set on Will Gosden, a local stone mason. When Will holdsLizzie close, it feels as though nothing in the world could possibly come between them.However a visit to Mardi Appleby, a gypsy girl and fortune-teller, throws Lizzie's plans...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-11

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Born on the last days of the Blitz, life has not been easy for Dorrie Potter.Her parents' marriage is not a happy one. Flo, her mother, wishes she had taken a chance on her unreliable childhood sweetheart, Frank, instead of allowing herself to be bowled over by the good...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-04

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Lucy Potter loves her mother, but she hates the fact that Nora is a medium. A down-to-earth girl,Lucy is exasperated by Nora's regular chatty conversations with dead relatives so, eager to get away from home, she joins the Women's Land Army. But work on the isolated...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-04

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Susan Dalton is from a respectable chapel-going Geordie family. Jack Potter is a cockney-sparrow whose mother and sister are famous mediums. For this unlikely couple, thrown together in Newcastle by World War II, their love will not only be a struggle against class and...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-04

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When Lily Robinson sees the telegraph boy cycling down Perseverance Street, she knows that he's coming to deliver bad news. Clutching the telegram in her trembling hands, at eight months pregnant and mother to three-year-old Michael, Lily learns that she must now face...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-04-04

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Let much loved author Patricia Burns transport you to another time in this saga which brilliantly brings together characters from all walks of life whose lives centre around one much loved department store. Fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Josephine Cox will not...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-03-31

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