*****West Yorkshire, 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street, Agnes Sheridan is looking forward to making her mark as Bowden's first district nurse, confident she can make a difference in the locals’ lives.But when Agnes arrives, she’s treated with...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2017-07-27

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A young girl trying to do her best for her country...When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, aspiring cook Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream. After overcoming...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2017-07-27

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Dare she risk her reputation?When the orphaned Flora MacDonald escapes from a harsh reform school she falls - literally - into the arms of Andrew Stewart, a handsome sailor on shore leave. But their blossoming love is interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2017-05-18

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**Don't miss Emma Hornby's gripping new wartime saga, A SISTER'S FIGHT**----------------------------Moll thought she could keep her family safe . . .Eighteen-year-old Moll Chambers works her fingers to the bone doing all she can to support her family. With an ailing...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2017-05-04

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'Henderson's Grace Williams Says It Loud was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and this more than matches it.'Elizabeth Buchan, Daily MailIn June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2017-04-06

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A wealthy landlord’s son, and a coal miner’s daughter…Growing up in poverty, one of six siblings, Hannah Armstrong never thought she’d know anything other than her little mining town. But then she falls for Timothy Durkin, a wealthy Oxford student…Following her heart,...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2017-04-06

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THE SECOND SHIPYARD GIRLS NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NANCY REVELL.‘Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!’ Northern Echo***********1941: it takes strength to work on the docks, but the war demands all hands on deck and the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2017-03-23
Collection : The Shipyard Girls Series
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'A thoughtful and subtle historical romance with lots of brains and lots of heart.' Kate Forsyth1917, Italy. Rebecca Quinn is an unconventional woman. At the height of World War I, she has given up the safety of her Sydney home for the bloody battlefields of Europe,...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2017-03-14

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The classic wartime sagas, now in a special omnibus editionRead Grace Thompsons delightful Holidays at Home series, now in one volume! These heartwarming sagas follow the inhabitants of St Davids Wells, a small Welsh seaside town, charting the highs and lows they...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2017-03-13

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In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. "Stunning." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2017-02-07

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She must fight to keep her new freedomThe Great War is over at long last, and with it comes an inheritance that will free Serena Fleming from her bullying father.She can finally lead the life she has always wanted. But little does she know how far her father will go to...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2017-02-06

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THE TWELFTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN‘We’ll just have to carry on in the belief that the end of the war is finally in sight'It is 1944 and Anne Black is making the best of a new life in Somerset, but bringing up her daughters so far...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2017-01-26
Collection : The Cliffehaven Series
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This collection brings together three of Maggie Hope's most powerful novels:Orphan GirlWorkhouse ChildAn Orphan's SecretThese emotional tales of orphans overcoming terrible hardships may bring a tear to your eye, but they'll also bring warmth to your heart...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2017-01-01

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**Don't miss Jenny Holmes's latest wartime series, The Air Raid Girls. Part 3 - The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides - is available now!**----------------------------Summer, 1936. Newly trained midwife Hazel Price returns to the Yorkshire streets of her childhood, only to...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2016-12-15

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1910. Anna Garvey arrives in Caernoweth, Cornwall with her daughter and a secret. Having come from Ireland to take up an inheritance of the local pub, she and her eighteen year-old daughter Mairead are initially viewed with suspicion by the close-knit community.Anna...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-12-01
Collection : Penhaligon Saga
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'She brings the East End to life' Barbara WindsorWhen Errol Turner, a handsome and determined young man from Jamaica, came to London's East End in the summer of 1955, his only assets were his father's old sewing machine, a few pounds in his pocket and a faith in the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-12-01

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'She brings the East End to life' Barbara WindsorIt is 1970 when 20-year-old Cathy falls in love with Johnny Dean, and becomes pregnant. A young docker, Johnny offers to marry Cathy - but what she doesn't know is that his gambling has got out of hand. He owes favours to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-12-01

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'She brings the East End to life' Barbara WindsorIn 1876, the homes of the poor working class in the East End are being replaced by splendid houses for the rich. When Kelly's Yard comes under threat, Maria Bertram inspires her neighbours to rebel against eviction. But...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-12-01

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'She brings the East End to life' Barbara WindsorIn the late summer of 1952, amidst the turmoil of people moving out of their war-damaged homes, Edie Birch and her only child Maggie must say a sad farewell to old friends and neighbours. A new start is always daunting...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-12-01

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When most of Maggie Jordan's family are killed in a freak flood in the small coastal village of Heymouth, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgow's carpet mills. She becomes engaged to Nevil Sanderson, who suddenly decides he must go to Spain and join the...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-11-24

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