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It is 1946, and with the war at last at an end, members of the Adams family who had been serving with the forces begin to come home. Boots is reunited with Polly and their twins, his son Tim returns to the welcoming arms of Felicity, and with so many others coming back,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2012-02-29
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In this powerful sequel to PACKARDS, much loved author Patricia Burns returns to the London department store, bringing its people and its wartime challenges expertly to life. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Josephine Cox...READERS ARE LOVING GOODBYE...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-02-29
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Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism.According to family legend, David...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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In the heart of the jungle lies a powerful secret.A secret thousands die for every year.A secret that men will kill for.They hoped for the trip of a lifetime. Now they are minutes from death.Mark and Melanie Bridges are lost in the world's most hostile forest. Their...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2012-02-29
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Kay Duffield's fiancé is about to leave the country, and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when she becomes a bride. The precious few days she spends with her new husband are quickly forgotten once she starts work as a balloon operator, trained for the heavy work...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2012-02-29
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When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she obey him by marrying a man she despises, she refuses and is cast out of her comfortable home in Whitby. Fortunately, a kindly local widow is looking for a lady companion and, for the moment, Kate's future is assured....
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2012-02-02
ePub
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Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.On 3 September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: it was...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-02-02
ePub
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In this compelling novel, sequel to Lantern for the Dark, author Jessica Stirling weaves a poignant tale of passion and deceit...In Europe, the war against the French rages.In Ayrshire, a different kind of battle begins . . .Once, Frederick Striker betrayed, then...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-01-19
Collection :
Frederick and Clare
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Jessica Stirling's Glasgow comes to scintillating life in the story of love and fortune set in Edwardian Scotland, the first in a trilogy.Lindsay Franklin's life is an adventure she has just begin to enjoy. At eighteen, Arthur Franklin's cosseted daughter has left her...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-01-19
Collection :
Franklin-McCulloch Trilogy
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About fifteen years after the events in the last book Fay Ludlow, battered daugher-in-law of Innes, seeks refuge with her unknown mother-in- law on Mull with the abusive Tarrant men expected to follow her.
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-01-19
ePub
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Polly Conway now lives in luxury as the wife of Dominic Manone but, bored by her overprotective husband, finds distraction in a dangerous affair. Dominic has troubles enough of his own as his gangster father draws him into a drastic venture involving Edgar Harker, a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-01-19
ePub
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To Cassie Armitage and her well-to-do family, Robert Montague seems a perfect suitor: a distinguished preacher with a glamorous past and impressive connections. Only after marriage will trusting and idealistic Cassie discover that Montague is not all that he seems....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-01-19
ePub
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THE SECOND CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANIt is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-01-19
Collection :
The Cliffehaven Series
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From the creator of Coronation Street comes a classic love storyTony Warren, the man who invented Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples now introduces a whole new gallery of unforgettable characters in a stunning debut novel.It is a story - spanning forty years - of a woman,...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-12-31
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A stunning new blockbuster from the author of GODCHILDREN.An Englishman's home is his castle. Or at least it should be. But as Anthony Anscombe surveys Winchford Priory, his beautiful Elizabethan house in Oxfordshire, lurking in the village are more than one or two...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-12-29
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On the day of his dad's funeral, ten-year-old Jacky Gaskell meets Frank McGovern for the first time. For when Frank is hanged for a murder he did not commit, Jacky's mother Maureen feels she must tell Jacky the truth: Frank was his real father.On the day of the...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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Ten-year-old Amy Farthing miraculously survives the sinking of the Lusitania, but loses both her parents in the disaster. However, on her arrival in England, her rich paternal grandfather, Godfrey Farthing, disowns the little girl, for reasons he will not divulge....
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-15
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Pretty and bright, Cleopatra Kelly dreams of life without the shadow of fear cast by her abusive step-father Horace Womack. Her beloved brother, Ant, flees to London, and a few weeks later, Cleo makes a daring escape and follows him there. However, Cleo is only...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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When Rosie Jones' sweetheart Sean Quinnan is killed in a building accident, she knows the blame lies with her childhood tormentor Joe Brindle. But though Rosie longs for justice she has more pressing matters to deal with - when she find she is carrying Sean's baby she...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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Hope Street may be just an ordinary terraced street in Leeds, but it's the world to Maggie Fish. And when her father returns home from the war the whole family looks forward to happier times. But then Maggie's mother dies giving birth to a little boy, leaving Johnnie...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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