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A Band of Steel
When Adina and her family are forced to flee Cologne to escape the vicious menace of German invasion in 1938, leaving their luxurious lifestyle is painful. Harder still is finding herself a refugee in a foreign country. But Adina is a compassionate and determined girl and as they settle into a new life in the Midlands she finds the strength to survive.



However, her brother and sister aren't so lucky and their family ties are stretched to breaking point. And then Adina runs the risk of losing her family forever when she is drawn towards the one man she should never fall in love with...
Год: 2011
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 909314
ISBN: 9780755353927
Автор: Goodwin Rosie

A Beautiful Spy
Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman.

She is also a spy for the British government.



It all began in the summer of 1928...



Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn't appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary, but longs to make a difference.



Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the British government as a spy. Under strict instructions not to tell anyone, not even her family, she moves to London and begins her mission - to infiltrate the Communist movement.



She soon gains the trust of important leaders. But as she grows more and more entangled in the workings of the movement, her job becomes increasingly dangerous. Leading a double life is starting to take its toll on her relationships and, feeling more isolated than ever, she starts to wonder how this is all going to end. The Russians are notorious for ruthlessly disposing of people given the slightest suspicion.



What if they find out?



Full of suspense, courage and love, A Beautiful Spy is a stunningly written story about resisting the norm and following your dreams, even if they come with sacrifices.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Simon & Schuster
Артикул: 966476
ISBN: 9781471187216
Автор: Hore Rachel

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
England, 1399. A treacherous plot has been hatched to depose King Richard and install Henry Bolingbroke on the English throne.



With the aid of his powerful friend Hotspur, Henry is victorious. But, crowned Henry IV, he rules a kingdom in crisis. In Wales, rebellion threatens. Henry's heir, Hal, is named Prince of Wales but the Welsh have a prince of their own blood and he is calling them to arms.



More dangerous still, a rift is opening between Henry, Hotspur and Hal. As tension mounts, the three men are inexorably drawn into a bloody collision on which the fate of the realm will hang...
Год: 2016
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 909818
ISBN: 9781472233912
Автор: Pargeter Edith

A Book of Secrets
A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors, who bring her to England. Once in England, she is raised and educated in an English Catholic household.



When Susan comes of age, the family marry her off to an older Catholic man, John Charlewood. Charlewood runs a printing press and uses it to supply the Papist nobility with illegal Catholic texts and foment rebellion amongst the Catholic underclass. When Charlewood dies, Susan takes over the business and uses her new position to find out more about her origins.



A look at racial relationships on the eve of the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, A Book of Secrets is a revealing and compelling glimpse into a fraught time.

Серия: Jacaranda
Год: 2019
Производитель: Jacaranda
Артикул: 910556
ISBN: 9781913090678
Автор: Morrison Kate

A Call to Arms
India 1819: Matthew Hervey is charged with raising a new troop, and organising transport for India - for he, his men and their horses are to set sail with immediate effect.



What Hervey and his soldiers cannot know is that in India they will face a trial for which they are woefully under prepared.



A large number of Burmese war-boats are assembled near Chittagong, and the only way to thwart their advance involves a hazardous march through the jungle.



Soon Hervey and his troop are in the midst of hot and bloody action once again...



A Call To Arms is the fourth book in Allan Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series. His adventures continue in The Sabre's Edge. Have you read his previous adventures A Close Run Thing, The Nizam's Daughters and A Regimental Affair?

Серия: Matthew Hervey
Год: 2003
Производитель: Bantam books
Артикул: 890000
ISBN: 9780553813500
Автор: Mallinson Allan

A Capitol Death
A tragic accident... or was it?



Emperor Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for the celebration accidentally falls to his death from a cliff on the symbolic Capitoline Hill.



But Flavia Albia suspects there's more to the incident than meets the eye, as there are plenty of people who would have been delighted to be rid of the overseer. He was an abusive swine who couldn't organise a booze-up in a winery and was caught up in a number of scams, including one surrounding the supply of imperial purple dye and a family of shellfish-boilers.



As Flavia finds herself drawn into a theatrical world of carnival floats, musicians, incense and sacrificial beasts, can she see to the heart of the matter and catch those responsible for the unpopular man's untimely death?

Серия: Flavia Albia
Год: 2019
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 905419
ISBN: 9781473658769
Автор: Davis Lindsey

A Change of Climate
From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets.



Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of 'good souls and sad cases', children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage.



Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and Botswana, of the terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives, refuse to be put to rest and threaten to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves and their children.



This is a breathtakingly intelligent novel that asks the most difficult questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy ever deserved? Can you ever escape your own past? A literary family saga written with the skill and subtlety of a true master, this is Hilary Mantel at her best.
Год: 2010
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 896831
ISBN: 9780007172900
Автор: Mantel Hilary

A Child in Burracombe
Devon, 1943. In the village of Burracombe, 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While the young men are away, everyone at home knows the war effort needs them too. Whether it's Land Girls on the farms, wives and mothers having to make do and mend, or the villagers knowing how to stretch rations to keep spirits bright, there is always something to be done to help.



When the Barton is requisitioned as a children's home for war orphans, all of Burracombe rallies round to welcome their newest arrivals, particularly little Maddy Simmons. Still reeling from losing her mother and brother in the Plymouth blitz, and her father being killed at sea, now in a cruel twist, Maddy has been sent to a different children's home to her beloved sister.



As Maddy explores the village and makes new friends, she begins to feel at home and realises that Burracombe is the kind of place where you will always have someone to turn to, even when times are hard. Could this be somewhere she could finally call home?



This heart-warming story gives a different perspective to the village as it adapts to the struggles of wartime and explores the story of a much-loved character in the wonderful Burracombe series.

Серия: Burracombe Village
Год: 2018
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 904927
ISBN: 9781409167327
Автор: Harry Lilian

A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls
The sixth heartwarming, feel-good instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series!



Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in store for the railway girls this festive season...



When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval of her father, Cordelia is reminded of her own first love - a love that she has never forgotten.



Mabel is determined to get to the bottom of a spate of local burglaries. Her heart is in the right place as she sets out on a quest to clear her friend's name, but there will be unforeseen consequences.



It's nothing short of a miracle when Colette returns to Manchester. But it's not going to be easy for her to keep living the life she once knew, and an impossible situation lies ahead.



There will be more than one storm for the railway girls to weather but with the friendship and support of one another, there's hope that all will be well by Christmas...

Серия: The Railway Girls series
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972760
ISBN: 9781529158267
Автор: Thomas Maisie

A Christmas Wish for Land Girls
A heart-warming, romantic story of friendship, camaraderie and triumph over adversity that fans of Donna Douglas, Daisy Styles and Call the Midwife will adore.



Winter, 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and are doing their bit for the war effort. But after months working on farms in the Yorkshire Dales, they're looking for a fresh challenge.



Despite the bitter cold of their new billets high in the remote fells, their fear for those away fighting, and concern for family and friends, there is warmth to be found in faces old and new, and plans for a jolly Christmas are afoot.



But when a child evacuee goes missing in the snow and tragedy strikes close to home, can their dearest wish - that all their loved ones stay safe this Christmas - possibly come true?

Серия: Land Girls
Год: 2018
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889728
ISBN: 9780552175814
Автор: Holmes Jenny

A Christmas Wish for the Shipyard Girls
Sunderland, 1943: As Christmas approaches in the shipyards, everyone is hoping for a little magic...



Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feelings for him. But how can she when he clearly has eyes for someone else?



More than a year has passed since Bel's wedding to sweetheart Joe. She knows she has much to feel thankful for and yet there is still one burning desire which she cannot ignore.



And as Polly grows with child, she hopes against hope for a safe delivery - and that her husband Tommy can soon return from the front line to meet their new arrival.



There will be storms to weather, but guided by their strength and friendship there is still hope for each of the shipyard girls that their Christmas wishes will come true.

Серия: The Shipyard Girls Series
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 892289
ISBN: 9781787464278
Автор: Revell Nancy

A Column of Fire
A World in Turmoil



1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris.



A New Order



Elizabeth determines to set up a new secret service: a group of resourceful spies and courageous agents entrusted to keep her safe and in power. As she searches for those who will make the difference, one man stands out.



A Man Who Would Die For His Queen



For Ned Willard the opportunity to serve his queen is God-sent. He cannot stay in Kingsbridge and watch the love of his life marry another, and as fires burn and extremism begins to spark throughout Europe, Ned makes his choice. He will spend his life protecting his monarch from the tyrants who aim to destroy her or die trying . . .

Серия: Kingsbridge
Год: 2017
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 903201
ISBN: 9781447278757
Автор: Follett Ken

A Column of Fire
Millions of readers have been enthralled by the saga that began in The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, which now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire.

A world in turmoil.

1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris.

A new order.

Elizabeth determines to set up a new secret service: a group of resourceful spies and courageous agents entrusted to keep her safe and in power. As she searches for those who will make the difference, one man stands out.

A man who would die for his queen.

For Ned Willard the opportunity to serve his queen is God-sent. He cannot stay in Kingsbridge and watch the love of his life marry another, and as fires burn and extremism begins to spark throughout Europe, Ned makes his choice. He will spend his life protecting his monarch from the tyrants who aim to destroy her or die trying.

Серия: Kingsbridge
Год: 2018
Производитель: Pan Macmillan
Артикул: 689763
ISBN: 978-1-4472-7877-1
Автор: Follett Ken

A Complicated Matter
I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge.



1939, London: From McPhail's Passage to Kensington's Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being 'flagrantly foreign' to the locals, she becomes an efficient go-between for the upper-class ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.



It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plain-speaking and sightless Major Inchbold that Rose's dizzying journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever, as she drinks tea at the vicarage and stands up for the lower orders. But Rose's greatest dilemma is yet to come, as she must decide where her home - and her heart - really lies.



In Anne Youngson's wry and sublimely understated prose, this unique and beautiful story of love, class and belonging is also a profound and intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Doubleday
Артикул: 972763
ISBN: 9780857528230
Автор: Youngson Anne

A Cornish Homecoming
1930, Liverpool. Reformed con-artist Leah Marshall has long yearned for the thrills of her former life. Now she has the chance to relive it all as an exciting new 'game' beckons, but she soon discovers the rules have changed. One slip-up and she could lose everything . . . including her life.



Back home in Cornwall, the Foxes are making their own difficult decisions. An old agreement has turned sour, putting the hotel at risk once more, and the children have grown and are embarking on their own, sometimes perilous, paths. Matriarch Helen Fox knows she must take charge of her own future now, or be left alone while her family and home splinter around her. Should she hold on a little longer, or let go and move on?



But when a new and deadly danger steps through the revolving doors of Fox Bay Hotel, Helen finds it might not be her choice to make after all . . .

Серия: The Fox Bay Saga
Год: 2021
Производитель: Piatkus
Артикул: 904980
ISBN: 9780349424019
Автор: Nixon Terri

A Cornish Inheritance
Welcome to Fox Bay Hotel, where family fortunes rise and fall.



1920, Bristol. Helen Fox is happily married to the love of her life: charming, former playboy Harry. With their three children, glamorous lifestyle and extravagant parties, they have the perfect life. But after a tragic motorcycle accident, nothing will ever be the same...



Helen is forced to leave their home and move to the Fox family's hotel on the Cornish coast - where she discovers her perfect life has been based on a lie.



Now Helen must find a way to build a new life for herself and her children with the help of a vivacious new friend, Leah Marshall.



But when the future of the hotel is threatened, Helen discovers that she hasn't left her past behind after all, and unless she takes drastic action, she's going to lose everything all over again...



Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this tale of tragedy and triumph will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace.

Серия: The Fox Bay Saga
Год: 2019
Производитель: Piatkus
Артикул: 908906
ISBN: 9780349423982
Автор: Nixon Terri

A Cornish Promise
Welcome to Fox Bay Hotel, where family fortunes rise and fall . . .



1929, Cornwall. Fiona Fox, youngest child of the celebrated Fox family, is a devoted volunteer at the local lifeboat station, giving all her free time and her energy to the selfless crew. But when she seizes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do more, she sets in motion a chain of events that sparks danger and intrigue at Fox Bay Hotel.



The stranger she brings into her family home provides an unsettling presence over Christmas, and when visiting 'Hollywood Royalty' is drawn into the web, Fiona has to decide how much her promises are worth after all.



But the glamorous visitors have their own secrets, and their own reasons for hiding out at Fox Bay. As those reasons become apparent, Fiona must choose between betraying a close friend, and keeping her word... And lives are at stake whichever way she turns.



Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this tale of secrets and strangers will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace.

Серия: The Fox Bay Saga
Год: 2020
Производитель: Piatkus
Артикул: 908907
ISBN: 9780349423999
Автор: Nixon Terri

A Corruption of Blood
A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3



Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.

Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from.

Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven s help to escape the hangman.

Sarah and Raven s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.

Серия: Raven and Fisher Mystery
Год: 2022
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953649
ISBN: 9781786899897
Автор: Parry Ambrose

A Country Road, A Tree
Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance...



Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 889956
ISBN: 9780552779524
Автор: Baker Jo

A Crowning Mercy
In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy

On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger.



But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew.



One of four intricately wrought seals each holding a secret within it can, when combined with the other three, bring great wealth and power. This power is her true inheritance but it s a perilous legacy others will kill for
Год: 2018
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 897988
ISBN: 9780008298456
Автор: Cornwell Bernard

A Dangerous Inheritance
Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower.



Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant, she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne.



Alone in her chamber in the Tower, she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers, Kate Plantagenet, who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins, the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower.



But time is not on Kate's side - nor on Katherine's either...
Год: 2013
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885509
ISBN: 9780099534594
Автор: Weir Alison

A Daughter's Hope
Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off and do their bit by joining the WAAFs. But what starts off as a great adventure soon forces the girls to grow up as they are confronted with the harsh realities of war. Will they stick together, or will their experiences drive them apart?



Back in Hull, their older sister Florence is a typing pool supervisor who has resigned herself to a life without love. But when dashing American Colonel Forrest takes an interest, she wonders if he might be the one to mend her broken heart...
Год: 2022
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905212
ISBN: 9781409190950
Автор: Douglas Donna

A Daughter's Journey
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life than she could ever have imagined - and suddenly in danger too.



Jo also finds herself drawn to Nick, a handsome newcomer to the village. Nick had planned to settle in Birch End and start a business, but as he grows closer to Jo, he realises he may have to choose between his dreams and a chance at love.



Meanwhile, the new local council are faced with some tough decisions of their own. It's time to take a stand against the poor conditions in Backshaw Moss, the nearby slum, but some councillors want things to stay as they are - and will go to any lengths to make sure they get their way . . .



Will the decent people of the valley win a brighter future for themselves? And can Jo find a way to stay with Nick in a place she's grown to love?

Серия: Birch End
Год: 2020
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 904967
ISBN: 9781473677814
Автор: Jacobs Anna

A Daughter's Price
She thought she was finally safe. But a roof over her head comes with a price to pay...



Laura Cannock is on the run. Suspected of killing her bullying husband, his family are on a merciless prowl for revenge. Fleeing from her beloved home of Bolton to Manchester, Laura seeks refuge with her coal merchant uncle. But it soon becomes clear that a roof over her head comes with a price - of the type so unbearable she must escape once more.



Destitute and penniless, a stench-ridden housing court in the back streets of the factories is Laura's only hope of a dwelling - a place where both the filth and the kindness of neighbours overwhelm. Here people stick together through the odds, leading Laura to true friendship, and possibly love. But with the threat of her past still hanging over her, there's still one battle she must fight - and win - alone...



A gritty and page-turning historical saga set in Northern England in the late 1800s, perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889726
ISBN: 9780552175760
Автор: Hornby Emma

A Daughter's Promise
Eighteen-year-old seamstress Kathryn Flynn lives in Whitechapel, London, struggling to support her widowed mother and younger siblings. But when her work starts drying up and her mother falls ill, she is forced to consider desperate measures



Then she meets 'Squire', an older city gentleman, who falls instantly in love with her and offers to take her under his wing. 'Squire' could give Kathryn the life she's always wanted but is there something darker lurking beneath his kindness?
Год: 2020
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 910290
ISBN: 9781529403879
Автор: Rees Lynette

A Family Secret
In a time of war, what's holding them together could tear them all apart... London, 1940. Winnie Berry is at the heart of the community in her pub, The Battersea Tavern. Her door is always open to those in need of a cup of tea and sympathy.



Winnie's abusive husband has left and she finds herself foolishly falling in love with black-market trader, Have-it Harry Hampton. But Harry is married and Winnie soon finds herself tied up in his web of secrets.



Meanwhile Winnie's son is back in London - not to visit his own child, but to charm the latest barmaid at the Battersea Tavern, which will lead to devastating consequences for the family.



With bombs dropping all around them, is it too late for Winnie to uncover the secrets of those closest to her in order to protect her true family?
Год: 2022
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 909606
ISBN: 9781409197645
Автор: Neale Kitty

A Family Secret
The new No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the master storyteller, Josephine Cox.

Family secrets can weigh the heaviest



Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden - it's telling could ruin the lives of those she loves most.



Marie's granddaughter, Cathy, is a cheerful young woman and in the first flush of love. Her grandmother's secret will not only change Cathy's future but rewrite her past.



Sister-in-law Beth seems to have a happy life and a good

marriage but behind closed doors she's heartbreakingly sad. Will she be brave enough to speak out and run away?



These three women are at the beginning of a journey - one that will change their lives forever.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 897100
ISBN: 9780007420032
Автор: Cox Josephine

A Family Secret
Will she follow her head or her heart?



Lancashire, 1842



Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn, helping to support her family. Meanwhile, her older sister Peggy works as an apprentice at the Girls' School, hoping for a more prosperous future as a schoolteacher.



Jennet and Titus Eastwood have always made decisions for their daughters' futures. But as the sisters near adulthood they are determined to make their own choices. And with temptation in the way, will the girls find love - or infatuation - leads them astray?



Then an unexpected but familiar face arrives in town, and the family's future is threatened. For Bessie and Jennet, a difficult choice must be made - love or family . . .

Серия: Mill Town Lasses
Год: 2021
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 892276
ISBN: 9781787463585
Автор: Ashworth Libby

A Fine Balance
India, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever.



An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry s prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Год: 2006
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 953868
ISBN: 9780571230587
Автор: Mistry Rohinton

A Fine Madness
Danger and dissent stalk the streets and taverns of Elizabethan England. The Queen s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and the ever-present threat of invasion. One operative in particular - a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins, controversial beliefs and literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe - is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the Crown. When he is killed outside an inn in Deptford, his mysterious death becomes the subject of rumours and suspicion that are never satisfactorily resolved.



Years later, Thomas Phelippes, a former colleague of Marlowe s and a man once much valued by Walsingham, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower. When he is visited by an emissary of the new king, however, it becomes clear that his long fall from favour may be reversed if he will furnish his monarch with every detail he is able to recall about his murdered friend s life and death. But just what is it that so fascinates King James about the famously mercurial playwright-spy, and does Phelippes know enough to secure his own redemption?



Virtuosic, gripping and meticulously researched, award-winning writer Alan Judd turns is at the peak of his powers in this remarkable novel about a literary genius whose short-life and violent death composed one of the most fascinating unresolved mysteries of all time.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Simon & Schuster
Артикул: 966456
ISBN: 9781471180248
Автор: Judd Alan

A Foolish Virgin
It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish families .



After every matrimonial slanging match, Gittel s mother runs off to her parents home in Antwerp with her daugher in tow. Much to her delight, Gittel makes the acquaintance of the well-to-do Mardell family, who allow her to practise on their Steinway. Gittel feels that she is taken seriously by Mr Mardell, the head of the household, and by thirty-year-old Lucie, whom she adores.



When these friendships turn out to be nothing but an illusion, Gittel learns her first lessons about trust and betrayal. Her second comes soon after, when her father, whose talents for business leave much to be desired, attempts to make a quick killing in Berlin on the eve of the Wall Street Crash.



Though this intimate portrayal of familial strife is set in the shadow of the Holocaust, Simons says little about the horror that awaits her characters, yet she succeeds in giving the reader the sense that the novel is about more than a young girl s loss of innocence. In a fluid, almost casual style, she has written a masterly and timeless ode to a relatively carefree interlude in a dark and dramatic period.
Год: 2017
Производитель: MacLehose Press
Артикул: 975999
ISBN: 9780857054067
Автор: Simons Ida

A Game of Sorrows
It is 1628, Charles 1 is on the throne, and the British Crown is finally taking control of Ulster.

Returning to his rooms one night, Alexander Seaton is shocked to find a stranger standing there - a man who could be his double. His name is Sean O'Neill, and he carries a plea for help from Maeve O'Neill, forbidding matriarch of Alexander's mother's family in Ireland. All those who bear their blood have been placed under a poet's curse: one by one they are going to die. Only Alexander is immune, his O'Neill heritage a secret from all but his closest family.

Alexander travels to Ulster, to find himself at the heart of a family divided by secrets and bitter resentments. As he seeks out the author of the curse, he becomes increasingly embroiled in the conflict until - confronted with murder within his own family - his liberty and, finally, his life, are at stake.

Серия: Alexander Seaton
Год: 2019
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 976000
ISBN: 9781849162449
Автор: MacLean S. G

A Gathering Light
When Mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake, Mattie finds that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought. And, as she reads, a riveting story emerges - not only Grace Brown's story but also Mattie's hopes and ambitions for the future and her relationships with her friends and family.



Published to widespread acclaim this wonderful novel, part murder mystery and part coming-of-age story, is an astounding and accomplished piece of literature. The reviews say it all...
Год: 2004
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 922337
ISBN: 9780747570639
Автор: Donnelly Jennifer

A Gathering of Ghosts
1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its chapel.



But the locals believe Dartmoor was theirs long before Christianity came to the land. And not all who visit seek miracles. When three strangers reach the moor, fear begins to stir as the well's waters run with blood.



What witchcraft have the young woman, the Knight of St John and the blind child brought with them?



The Sisters will need to fight for everything they hold dear as the ghosts of the Old World gather in their midst.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 904912
ISBN: 9781472235916
Автор: Maitland Karen

A Gift for the District Nurses
Heartwarming and nostalgic fiction from the best selling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk.

It s 1943 and the district nurses have two new recruits



As the country ramps up for D-Day, the new nurses getting to know their patients on their patch in London s East End.



Lily is quite sure of herself and doesn t believe she has anything new to learn. She ll find out the hard way that anyone can be made a fool of when she meets a man who promises her everything.



Ruby thinks that nursing might not be for her is she as hopeless as she thinks, or will tough times bring out the best in her?



As the war takes on a new urgency, everything is at stake can the nurses do what is right for the country and for themselves?

Серия: The District Nurses
Год: 2020
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898575
ISBN: 9780008402334
Автор: Groves Annie

A God in Every Stone
Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 963516
ISBN: 9781526607782
Автор: Shamsie Kamila

A God in Ruins
Winner of the 2015 Costa Novel Award



A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.



This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotionally devastating book looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect it has, not only on those who live through it, but on the lives of the subsequent generations. It is also about the infinite magic of fiction. Those who loved the bestselling Life After Life will recognize Teddy as Ursula Todd's adored younger brother - but for those who have not read it, A God in Ruins stands fully on its own. Few will dispute that it proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the most exceptional novelists of our age.

Серия: Todd Family
Год: 2018
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 946349
ISBN: 9781784161156
Автор: Atkinson Kate

A Golden Age
Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.

Серия: Bangla Desh
Год: 2020
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953671
ISBN: 9781786898623
Автор: Anam Tahmima

A Good Man in Africa
Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .



Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he probably shouldn't have involved himself in wholesale bribery. Nor was it a good career move to go chasing after his boss's daughter; especially when his doctor banned him from horizontal pursuits.



But life is about to change for young Morgan Leafy. Every betrayal and humiliation he has suffered at the hands of petty persecutors is suddenly put into perspective. For Morgan has a dead body on his hands - and somehow, some way he's going to have to get rid of it . . .
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887048
ISBN: 9780141046891
Автор: Boyd William

A Haunting at Holkham
The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique, based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting.



January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when she is called home after a sudden death in the family. She returns to Holkham Hall to discover a mystery: her beloved grandfather has been found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs with a valuable piece of jewellery in his pocket. No one can find a cause of death, and some even suspect foul play from the ghost who supposedly haunts the house. But Anne's suspicions are aroused; she grew close to her grandfather when they lived together during the war and she is determined to discover the truth.



During World War II, Holkham Hall was an army base with large sections out of bounds, and 11-year-old Anne was in the care of a new governess, whom she hated and believed to be deceitful. Although she had been told to stay away from certain parts of the house, Anne used the secret passageways and the cellars to move around unnoticed. And something she saw then could unlock the mystery of her grandfather's death now ...



Full of rich historical detail, this is a gripping novel of wartime secrets, intrigue and deceit.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 956034
ISBN: 9781529336412
Автор: Glenconner Anne

A Hero in France
Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war.



Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work.



The fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women - young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and students - help downed British airmen reach the border with Spain. In farmhouses and rural churches, in secret hotels, and on the streets, they risk everything to open Europe's sealed doors and lead Allied fighters to freedom.



But as the military police heightens surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched from the Reich to destroy them all.

Серия: Night Soldiers
Год: 2017
Производитель: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Артикул: 956035
ISBN: 9781474602921
Автор: Furst Alan

A Home from Home
Norfolk, 1944



Land Girls, Phylly and Gracie, have become the best of friends - but war work is never easy at Catchetts Farm...



Poor Gracie wakes each morning worrying about whether she'll ever get to see her airman husband again. And Phylly is trying - and failing - to encourage Jimmy, an evacuee from London, to open up about his heartbreaking past.



When they meet Edwin, a handsome airman from the American Airforce, it soon becomes clear that Jimmy isn't the only one playing his cards close to his chest. But what could Edwin wish to hide from the girls?



Being a Land Girl means back-breaking work in all weathers, and the girls are determined want to do their bit to support the war effort. As their hardship grows, will the friendship between Phylly and Gracie be strong enough to see them through?



A Home from Home is the perfect wartime family saga, filled with heart-warming friendships and a courageous make-do-and-mend attitude. Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 956036
ISBN: 9781408726563
Автор: Hendry Rosie

A Jewish Girl in Paris
Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love.



'In this vivid, affecting novel of intertwined destinies and the enduring power of love against the bleakest odds, Levensohn weaves a tale saturated with historical accuracy and yet surprisingly intimate' - Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark



Paris, 1940, a city under German occupation. A young Jewish girl, Judith, meets a young man, the son of a wealthy banker and Nazi sympathizer - his family will never approve of the girl he has fallen in love with. As the Germans impose more and more restrictions on Jewish Parisians, the couple secretly plan to flee the country. But before they can make their escape, Judith disappears . . .



Montreal, 1982. Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. His daughter promises to find the sister she never knew. The search languishes for years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her young friend Beatrice.



Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades, that will change their lives forever . . .



Adapted from a translation by Jamie Lee Searle, A Jewish Girl in Paris is a historical novel for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 955360
ISBN: 9781529075762
Автор: Levensohn Melanie

A Kind of Freedom
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.



In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.



Jackie's son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn't survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.C. decides to start over-until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.



For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history.
Год: 2018
Производитель: JM Originals
Артикул: 910086
ISBN: 9781473679597
Автор: Sexton Margaret Wilkerson

A King's Ransom
Travelling home from the bloody battlefields of the Holy Land, the Crusader King Richard the Lionheart is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean after an encounter with pirates. He should be protected by a papal decree, but he is betrayed and captured by the Duke of Austria - a man who has good reason to loathe him - and is immediately claimed by the Holy Roman Emperor, who also bears him a bitter grudge.



Richard is to spend fifteen months imprisoned, much of it in the notorious fortress at Trefils, which few men ever left. Meanwhile, his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is moving heaven and earth to raise a staggering ransom, travelling across Europe herself to buy the release of her favourite son.



But her determination may not be enough. At the eleventh hour, the Duke announces that he has had a better offer from the French king, Philippe, and Richard's own treacherous brother, John. They will pay an even larger sum to continue Richard's captivity - or to turn him over to their tender mercies.



Told with masterful insight and rich historical detail, A King's Ransom is a striking portrayal of the darker, troubled years of Richard - a man whose courage, compassion and intelligence became the stuff of legend.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 903333
ISBN: 9781447205388
Автор: Penman Sharon

A Kiss From Mr Fitzgerald
In 1920s New York, everyone is chasing a dream



The Roaring 20s - a time for glamour, frivolity and freedom for women. But for Evie Lockhart, a small-town girl who is determined to become one of the first female doctors, it means turning her back on her family and the only life she's ever known.



In a desperate attempt to support herself through Columbia University's medical school, Evie auditions for the infamous late-night Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. But if she gets the part, what will it mean for her new relationship with Upper East Side banker Thomas Whitman - a man Evie thinks she could fall for, if only she lived a less scandalous life



Captivating and inspirational, A Kiss From Mr Fitzgerald is a love story starring a woman ahead of her time, set against the backdrop of Jazz Age New York. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Kate Furnivall.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 909139
ISBN: 9780751573138
Автор: Lester Natasha

A Lancashire Lass
Lancashire, 1832



Maids Hannah and Mary find themselves with no jobs and no home when their employer, Henry Sudell, loses all his money and disappears in the middle of the night. They have no choice but to return to Blackburn where Hannah is lucky to be taken in by her sister Jennet and brother-in-law, Titus, but Mary must seek lodgings in the infamous Star beer house.



Mary tries to get her job back as a weaver, but the influx of workers from the countryside and no support for the working class means that jobs are scarce. With no other choice she remains at the beer house, forced to risk her reputation and even her life.



In the middle of a cholera outbreak and political upheaval, can Mary ever find a way to recover all she's lost?

Серия: Mill Town Lasses
Год: 2020
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 892277
ISBN: 9781787463592
Автор: Ashworth Libby

A Life's Music
A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity



In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and survival that movingly illustrates the strength of human resilience.
Год: 2002
Производитель: Sceptre
Артикул: 956038
ISBN: 9780340820094
Автор: Makine Andrei

A Little Badness
A Little Badness is a compelling story of love and family, perfect for fans of Lyn Andrews and Rosie Goodwin.



Rita Blackthorn's heart was barren and hard. In all of her life she had never truly loved. But she had hated. Beneath the loving gaze of her daughter's soft green eyes, her heart swelled with dark and dangerous emotions.



Young Cathy Blackthorn has never experienced any loving response from her mother; it is her beloved aunt Margaret, with a heart as big and warm as the summer sky, who has been more of a mother than her own could ever be. And when Cathy's father Frank Blackthorn brings home a London street urchin and announces this will be the son he and Rita have never had, Cathy despairs of ever winning her parents' love. Cathy is a generous soul, though, and tries to give the young lad a chance to prove himself but, unlike her best friend, David Leyton, something about him makes her more than uneasy . . .
Год: 2017
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 909838
ISBN: 9781472245748
Автор: Cox Josephine

A Long Long Way
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry s highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.



Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history.
Год: 2006
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 953819
ISBN: 9780571218011
Автор: Barry Sebastian

A Long Petal of the Sea
On September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.



Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile.



When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow'. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.



A masterful work of historical fiction that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 922198
ISBN: 9781526615947
Автор: Allende Isabel

A Loving Family
She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Workhouse Girl.



Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-mouth.



Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister behind, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. When she returns home one Sunday, she discovers they have disappeared. Thrown out of their lodgings, no one knows where they have gone.



Seven years later it looks likely Stella will soon become Cook. But circumstances compel her to flee with no references and only a few personal possessions to her name.



She has never forgotten her loving family and is determined to find out what happened to them - once and for all.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885876
ISBN: 9780099574934
Автор: Court Dilly

A Maid's Ruin
A sweeping saga of love and betrayal, perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.



Margate, 1786. Dairymaid Molly Goodchild dreams of a better life. Up at the crack of dawn to milk her uncle's cows, the one comfort of her day is her friendship with apprentice gardener, Charlie.



When dashing naval officer, Nicholas, arrives in town, Molly's head is turned by his flattering attentions and she casually spurns Charlie - believing this is her chance to escape a life of drudgery. Yet when Molly needs Nicholas most, he lets her down.



With her hopes in tatters, Molly is forced to flee Margate for London, where she finds herself struggling to survive.



What will she risk in her search for a better life? And will she ever find the love she deserves?

Серия: The Margate Maid
Год: 2020
Производитель: Piatkus
Артикул: 905634
ISBN: 9780349424590
Автор: Francis Lynne

A Marriage of Fortune
England. 1469.



A fortunate marriage will change history.

A scandal could destroy everything...



Margaret Paston, matriarch of the Paston family, knows that a favourable match for one of her unruly daughters is the only way to survive the loss of their recently acquired Caister Castle. But as the War of the Roses rages on, dangerous enemies will threaten even her best laid plans.



Margery Paston, her eldest daughter, has always strived to uphold the Paston name and do her mother proud. But when she loses her heart to a man below her station, she must make a terrible choice: will she betray her family and risk everything for a chance at true love?



Anne Haute, first cousin to the Queen, is embroiled in a longstanding betrothal to Sir John Paston, the eldest son and heir to the Paston seat. But despite his promises, Anne can't help but doubt that he will ever keep his word and make her his wife...



In the midst of civil war, each of these women must decide: Head or heart? Love or duty? Reputation- or scandal?
Год: 2023
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 956040
ISBN: 9781398711143
Автор: O`Brien Anne

A Marriage of Scandal
Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister falls pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, which she knows she must keep from her father: her relationship with Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own wealthy, pious family by proposing marriage.



However Charles is not the only man who could shape Agnes's furture, as his brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her. But she could not have foreseen how significant a part he is to play in her destiny...



The Wingless Bird is an absorbing story of love and the harsh realities of Britain's class system.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972795
ISBN: 9781804991589
Автор: Cookson Catherine

A Mask of Shadows
1889. The Scottish Play is coming home.



But before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage terror treads the boards.



A grisly message found smeared across the cobbles in blood, foretelling someone's demise.



As the bloody prophecies continue to appear Edinburgh's own beloved pair - Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray & Inspector Ian Frey - enter the scene. Frey scoffs at this blatant publicity stunt, while McGray is convinced of supernatural affairs.



As they scrutinise the key players, they discover that Terry, Irving, and his peculiar, preoccupied assistant (one Bram Stoker) all have reasons to kill, or be killed...



But one thing is clear. By occult curse or human hand, death will take bow the night the curtain rises.

Серия: A Victorian Mystery
Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972796
ISBN: 9781405926225
Автор: de Muriel Oscar

A Masterly Murder
The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation and wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town, Church and University.



Matthew Bartholomew is called to look into the deaths of three members of the University of who died from drinking poisoned wine, and soon he stumbles upon criminal activities that implicate his relatives, friends and colleagues - so he must solve the case before matters in the town get out of hand...



The Cambridge college of Michaelhouse is in uproar in the November of 1353: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste a Michaelhouse Fellow named Runham arranges his own 'election' as his successor. Within days he has dismissed several members of staff, including the redoubtable laundress Agatha, and is making life so unpleasant for the scholars that even Matthew Bartholomew believes his future as physician and teacher at the college is untenable.



While Matthew is helping Brother Michael, Proctor of the fledgling university, investigate some suspicious deaths, Runham himself is murdered and, although mourned by none, Matthew and Michael know they have to solve the mystery before any more damage is done to their beloved Michaelhouse.

Серия: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
Год: 2017
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 909126
ISBN: 9780751569407
Автор: Gregory Susanna

A Mercy
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably.



With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck.



Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 972798
ISBN: 9780099502548
Автор: Morrison Toni

A Miner's Daughter
When Rosalind West leaves her native Durham for a job in London with the Doxbridge Motor Company she is determined to escape her background and build a new life. London is excitingly different and tantalisingly glamorous - especially when she meets the handsome and aristocratic Freddie Harrington, a rally driver, and the son of a once-wealthy Northumberland landowner. Against her friends' better judgement Freddie and Rosalind begin a relationship. But Freddie's family have plans for him which do not include marrying a Durham miner's daughter. Turning to a close companion for consolation, Rosalind suddenly finds herself torn between two men, both of strong passions, and fierce ambition.



Note: this book was previously published under the title Home to the High Fells.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 956041
ISBN: 9781529424225
Автор: Gill Elizabeth

A Mother s Betrayal
Manchester, 1867



Mara longs for a peaceful life free of violence and poverty. But she has married into the O'Hara family, who have a reputation for drunkenness and quick tempers. Her eldest stepson Conrad is the worst of them all - a brute and a criminal who makes Mara's life a misery.



But when Conrad is accused of a crime he didn't commit, Mara is the only one who can prove his innocence. Perhaps this is her chance to finally free her family from his toxic influence . . .



Will Mara clear Conrad's name, or will she have the courage to break away from her stepson's villainy?
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889778
ISBN: 9780552178105
Автор: Hornby Emma

A Mother s Love
Liverpool, 1940: There comes a moment in every child s life when they must learn to stand on their own two feet.



For fifteen-year-old Ellie Lancton, that time has come all too soon. The death of her mother and the increase in air raids leaves Ellie alone and in grave danger. It s not long before she is forced to leave her beloved Liverpool behind and cross the Mersey to seek refuge in the countryside.



But as the war takes comforts away, so too does it bring new opportunities; for work, new friendships, and perhaps a little love



It will take all of Ellie s courage to find her way without her mother s guidance. But if Ellie can soldier on with grace and dignity, there might just be light at the end of the tunnel.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891711
ISBN: 9781784755256
Автор: Flynn Katie

A Mother's Blessing
A captivating saga set on the eve of WWII in Liverpool, where life for one girl is about to change forever.

Molly's mother died when she was just a child and she helped her grief-stricken father look after their tiny home in their tight-knit Liverpool street. Lacking confidence, Molly's always felt in the shadow of her sister June, but as the Second World War breaks out, she sees a chance to do her bit.

Enlisting in the Women's Voluntary Service, Molly is terrified of what lies ahead, but she also meets Eddie and lives for the time they spend together. In their snatched moments when Eddie is on leave from the Navy, the two of them happily plan their future.

After tragedy strikes, Molly's dreams are snatched away, but she knows there is more at stake that one broken heart. Molly wants to be brave like her mother would have wanted her to be - can she find the courage to carry on for the sake of her country and her family?



A Mother's Blessing was first published in 2006 with the title Goodnight Sweetheart.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898556
ISBN: 9780008395872
Автор: Groves Annie

A Mother's Choice
For ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, life has never been easy. Every new coat and pair of shoes was bought with what little money she could scrape together as a singer on the stage.



But when the theatre work dries up, Delia faces a dilemma: continue the search for employment with no knowing whether she ll find the stability and security her son needs, or return to the place that should be home . . . where only spite and hatred await them.



Desperate now, a chance encounter suddenly presents a lifeline. But Delia is faced with an impossible, heart-wrenching choice. Can she bear to leave Jack behind, hoping another family will care for him? Will they ever be reunited?



What else can a mother do to give her son the life he deserves?



Val Wood's wonderful historical sagas are perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Rosie Goodwin.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889699
ISBN: 9780552173919
Автор: Wood Val

A Mother's Christmas Wish
'I hope this Christmas is better than last year's.'



Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help run her pub. Bessie is kind but firm, and at first Emma rebels against her lack of freedom. Struggling to fit in, she turns to the wrong person for comfort, and becomes pregnant.



Accepting she must embrace her new life for the sake of her baby, Emma pours her energy into making the pub thrive and helping heal the fractured relationship between Bessie and her daughters. She catches the attention of Robert, a gruff but sincere farmer, who means to win her heart.



As December approaches, thankful for the home and acceptance she's found, Emma is determined to bring not just her family, but the whole Ryhope community, together to celebrate - and to make one very special mother's Christmas dreams come true.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 976023
ISBN: 9781472283252
Автор: Young Glenda

A Mother's Courage
A sweeping tale of loss and love set in turn-of-the-century London, from beloved bestselling author Dilly Court



When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With two young children, the rent overdue and almost nothing to live on, she has no alternative but to turn to his estranged family for help.



She sets off on the long and arduous journey to Yorkshire, but is met with hostility and soon realises she has little choice but to return to London. Virtually destitute and desperate, Eloise is faced with her worst nightmare: she must either go to the workhouse, or abandon her children at the Foundling Hospital. But she is determined to keep them safe and under her protective wing at all costs...
Год: 2018
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891681
ISBN: 9781784752569
Автор: Court Dilly

A Mother's Dilemma
Gritty and page-turning historical saga set in Northern England in the late 1800s, for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.



Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted children and finding them good adoptive homes - and is delighted for her neighbour when she finally becomes a mother after decades of trying. But when the baby dies of natural causes while under her roof, and knowing her neighbour will be devastated, Minnie swaps it with one of the infants in her care.



Now seventeen, Jewel Nightingale knows nothing of her true origins. But assaulted by her hateful cousin and making the dreadful discovery that she is pregnant, she faces a desperate dilemma. Fleeing her job as a domestic maid, she follows an advertisement to a house in Bolton's dark slums, where a woman promises to help her when the child is born. Little does Jewel know that there's a terrible price to pay . . .



Can she keep herself - and her baby - safe? And what will happen when Jewel discovers the truth about where she came from?
Год: 2019
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889725
ISBN: 9780552175753
Автор: Hornby Emma

A Mother's Heartbreak
After a tragic loss, can she ever find happiness?



When her father dies, Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in and take up the position of governess to the son of Sir Hugh Hastings. Arriving at the grand estate of Bramley Court, Abi, who is concealing a heartbreaking secret, finds a family haunted by a tragic loss.



But Bramley Court is also filled with secrets. Why is Sir Hugh's wife, Lady Imogen, so sure she can still hear the cries of the little boy she lost eighteen months ago? And what is the history between the mysterious, glamorous visitor, Constance Bingham, and complex, charismatic Sir Hugh?



As Abi weaves herself into the fabric of the house and family, she longs to help the people she's come to care for so deeply. Will they find peace and Abi heal her own broken heart?
Год: 2023
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 976024
ISBN: 9781472274977
Автор: Felton Jennie

A Mother's Journey
Hull, 1940. Edie Copeland has just arrived on Jubilee Row, carrying a secret and a heavy suitcase. She left York and her job at the Rowntrees Factory after tragedy struck to make a fresh start, but she's a stranger to this street, and her fellow tenant doesn't hesitate to remind her of this, widow or no.



Luckily, the neighbours are a little more welcoming and Edie is soon made to feel at home by the Maguires and the Scuttles. As air raids sound, and the war feels closer than ever, the community has to stick together. But Edie is hiding something, and she doesn't know how much longer she can keep it up.



Is the past going to catch up with her? And will Edie still be able to call Jubilee Row home when the truth comes out?



For fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Katie Flynn, this is the launch of a new series based around the true stories of the Blitz.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 909577
ISBN: 9781409190899
Автор: Douglas Donna

A Mother's Love
Three mothers. Three very different backgrounds. And a bond they will never forget...



The Lake District, 1944. Spring is in the air for the women at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home.



Beautiful Stella, the head-turning cook of a munitions factory, has been swept off her feet by a handsome GI. He proposes when she falls pregnant, but soon his letters stop arriving...



Then there is Lillian, who is deeply unimpressed when she is conscripted as a Land Girl miles from her home, but then she meets a charming, married vet...



Meanwhile, midwife Ada is getting used to being back at work after the birth of her own beautiful baby girl. But she faces the biggest challenge of her life when the home is engulfed in an outbreak of whooping cough.



Though each woman is from a different walk of life, only together can they help Mary Vale come through this crisis...

Серия: Wartime Midwives Series
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 890770
ISBN: 9781405950435
Автор: Styles Daisy

A Mother's Promise
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 never-ending struggle just to exist, Hetty is determined her family will never starve or want for a roof over their heads.



Longing for something better out of life than the daily grind of making matchboxes for a pittance, she dreams of setting up her own business. With the help of friends she sells hot potatoes on the streets and things begin to look up for them all. But when the tallyman comes calling, they are faced once more with a future full of hardship and despair ...
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891683
ISBN: 9781784752583
Автор: Court Dilly

A Mother's Ruin
Will she give in to temptation?



When 18-year-old Eve runs away from her small village to start a new life in the city, she quickly discovers that Leeds is not everything she expected it to be. Wandering the cold streets in search of shelter, timid Eve can only find work as a barmaid at the Bluebell Inn - a place her strict parents would never approve of.



Serving ale and cheap gin to the rowdy crowd, Eve eventually catches the eye of dashing Sergeant Joseph Oates but his intentions are not honourable and he will leave her with more than just a broken heart
Год: 2020
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 890828
ISBN: 9781529104127
Автор: Hart Gracie

A Mother's Sacrifice
Will she be able to save her children?



Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three Feathers, she runs a respectable establishment and is known for her generosity and care for her family and others around her - she even took in two orphan girls to save them from a life of cruelty in the workhouse.



So when Martha announces that she has killed her son, Garth, the community is shocked. Garth was undoubtedly a bad seed, but they knew how much Martha adored her first-born. What could have driven her to such extreme actions?



Martha refuses to give a reason, but her other children cannot believe their mother is capable of murder. They begin to believe that she is protecting someone - maybe even one of them...
Год: 2021
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 905002
ISBN: 9781472256485
Автор: Felton Jennie

A Mother's Secret
Can she put right the secrets of the past?



London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of tears and laughter, full of customers that feel like family. A place where she's learned to avoid the quick fists of her husband, and where she's raised her beloved son, David.



He's inherited his father's lazy streak and can't seem to hold down a job, but when war is declared Winnie is determined to keep her son safe. She's still haunted by the choice she made years ago as a desperate young woman, and she won't make the same mistake of letting her family be taken from her...



But when a young woman crosses her path, the secrets of Winnie's past threaten to turn her world upside down. There's nothing stronger than a mother's love - but can it ever have a second chance?
Год: 2021
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905230
ISBN: 9781409197348
Автор: Neale Kitty

A Mother's Secret
When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, knowing she must keep the secret of her child's birth for ever.



Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy's care to Biddy Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old woman's cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for...
Год: 2021
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885551
ISBN: 9780099538837
Автор: Court Dilly

A Mother's Shame
One dismal day in 1857, Maria Mundy arrives at Hatter's Hall, the local mental asylum, not as an inmate but as a worker. Here, she is ordered to care for Isabelle Montgomery, the daughter of an influential land-owner. But Isabelle is not insane. She, like many other young women confined within the walls, has been banished here by her family. Hatter's Hall serves to hide unmarried women, in the family way, from prying eyes



As the women s lives become entwined, they realise the dangers they face. But there is only one way out of Hatter's Hall. The women must escape and there is one man who can help, Isabelle s brother Joshua who can barely keep his eyes off Maria. Otherwise, there s every chance they might never leave
Год: 2016
Производитель: Corsair
Артикул: 909731
ISBN: 9781472101709
Автор: Goodwin Rosie

A Mother's Trust
Phoebe Giamatti lives with her boisterous Italian family in the heart of London's East End. Phoebe's father was killed in gang warfare and she and her family share a deep hatred for the Paxman brothers - whose lawless ways strike terror into the whole community.



Despite her English mother's feckless ways, Phoebe is fiercely protective of Annie. Then just as the family are about to go to Italy for the winter, Phoebe discovers Annie is in trouble - and the Paxmans are involved. Phoebe is determined not to betray her mother's trust and, giving up her own chance of happiness, she stays behind to care for her. But when Phoebe and Annie are forced to leave London and Annie falls dangerously ill, Phoebe has little choice but to turn to the man she holds responsible for all her family's troubles...
Год: 2011
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885802
ISBN: 9780099562542
Автор: Court Dilly

A Mother's Wish
Effie Grey has fallen on hard times since the death of her husband. Forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law, Jacob, Effie must put aside her own despair in order to protect her brother, Tom, and her young son, Georgie.



Life becomes even more unbearable when Jacob hires the villainous Salter and his vile wife Sal to run the barge. When Tom is sent away without a penny, Effie is forced to make a choice to protect her family. Driven by desperation, Effie steals Jacob s hidden cache of money and flees with her son in search of Tom. No matter what, she will make a home for little Georgie and keep him safe from harm.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891685
ISBN: 9781784752606
Автор: Court Dilly

A Net for Small Fishes
Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family and is the most unhappy creature in the world.



Anne Turner has wit and talent but no stage on which to display them. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution.



When these two very different women meet in strange circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked. Frankie sweeps Anne into a world of splendour that exceeds all she imagined: a Court whose foreign king is a stranger to his own subjects; where ancient families fight for power, and where the sovereign's favourite may rise and rise so long as he remains in favour.



Anne and Frankie dare to seek a little happiness for themselves in this extravagant, savage hunting ground. But as they gain notice, they also gain enemies; what began as a search for love and safety leads to desperate acts that could cost them everything.



Based on the true scandal that rocked the court of James I, A Net for Small Fishes is the most gripping novel you'll read this year: an exhilarating dive into the pitch-dark waters of the Jacobean court.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 881198
ISBN: 9781526616654
Автор: Jago Lucy

A Night of Flames
In the wild lands of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a violent revolt in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure.

Northumbria, AD 794. Those who rule the seas, rule the land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. To compete with the seafaring raiders, the king of Northumbria orders the construction of his own longships under the command of oath-sworn Norseman, Runolf.

When the Vikings attack again, the king sends cleric turned warrior, Hunlaf, on a mission to persuade the king of Rogaland into an alliance. But Hunlaf and Runolf have other plans; kin to seek out, old scores to settle, and a heretical tome to find in the wild lands of the Norse.

Their voyage takes them into the centre of a violent uprising. A slave has broken free of his captors and, with religious fervour, is leading his fanatical followers on a rampage - burning all in his path. Hunlaf must brave the Norse wilderness, and overcome deadly foes, to stop this madman. Can he prevent a night of flames and slaughter?

Серия: A Time for Swords
Год: 2022
Производитель: Head of Zeus
Артикул: 963796
ISBN: 9781801102292
Автор: Harffy Matthew

A Nurse's Tale
Born Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when war broke out - facing both the devastation of the Blitz and the prejudice of some of the people she was trying to help.



80 years later, Ade's great-niece Yemi arrives in London clutching the Princess's precious diaries and longs to uncover the mysteries they hold



A richly-detailed, compelling historical novel shining a light on a hidden voice of WW2 and one woman's courageous contribution to Britain
Год: 2023
Производитель: One More Chapter
Артикул: 986394
ISBN: 9780008492335
Автор: Awonubi Ola

A Pair of Silver Wings
Edward Enderby has never spoken about being an RAF fighter pilot. But fifty years after the greatest conflict the world has ever seen, he must finally confront the memories he has tried so hard to forget.



From the bright skies over England in 1941, through the dark days of the Siege of Malta, to a bitter partisan struggle in Italy, his takes a momentous journey that will change him forever.



And despite the damage the war has wrought, Edward has one last chance to save himself from his past.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889747
ISBN: 9780552176743
Автор: Holland James

A Paris Secret
A sweeping tale of ambition and passion in the shattered world of post-war Paris - perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Kate Furnivall



1952. In the fragile atmosphere of post-war Paris, Sophie Bernot is training as a heart surgeon. A young woman in a man's world, Sophie is determined to bury her past and forge her medical career, whatever the costs.



Across the channel, Sebastian Ogilvie is burning with ambition for his first architectural project. As his schemes lead him to France, and to a chance encounter with Sophie, his future seems full of promise.



But when Sophie and Sebastian find themselves entangled in a brief, passionate affair, they each face a choice that will change their lives irrevocably, and a secret that will take years to be uncovered...



Sweeping from Paris to London, to the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, this is an unforgettable story of passion, heartache and forgiveness.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905533
ISBN: 9781409180821
Автор: Montague Caroline

A Passage North
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires.



As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Granta Publication
Артикул: 954191
ISBN: 9781783786961
Автор: Arudpragasam Anuk

A Place Beyond Courage
The early twelfth century is a time for ambitious men to prosper, and royal servant John FitzGilbert Marshal is one of them. Raised high as the kin of the deceased King Henry battle each other for England s throne, John reaps rich rewards but pays a terrible price for the choices he makes - as do his family. His wife, fragile, naive Aline is hopelessly unequipped to cope with the demands of a life lived on the edge and, when John is seriously injured in battle, her worst nightmare is realised.



Sybilla, bright, forthright sister to the Earl of Salisbury, finds herself used as a bargaining counter when her brother seeks to seal a truce with his troublesome neighbour, John FitzGilbert. And then there is Sybilla s small son, William, seized hostage by the King for John s word of honour. But sometimes keeping your honour means breaking your word...

Серия: William Marshal
Год: 2008
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 904852
ISBN: 9780751539011
Автор: Chadwick Elizabeth

A Place Called Home
The wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.



Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen, Lucy Pocket has spent all her life in the care of her disreputable but charming grandmother, Eva. They dodge from one poor lodging house to another, always in debt and resorting to theft in order to exist.



Until her wealthy paternal grandfather buys her from Eva, determined to bring Lucy up to be a lady. When her grandfather dies, his despicable nephew cheats Lucy out of her inheritance, except for a run-down lodging house in Whitechapel, where she is forced to look after his three illegitimate children.



Jilted by her would-be fiance, Lucy is determined to make a life for herself and the children, and to search for her long lost grandmother, creating the family she has always longed for.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885878
ISBN: 9780099574958
Автор: Court Dilly

A Place of Greater Safety
From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination this is Hilary Mantel s epic novel of the French Revolution.

A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution s three protagonists Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution s ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends.



Critically acclaimed upon first publication, A Place of Greater Safety is one of Mantel s most celebrated works of fiction.
Год: 2010
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 896944
ISBN: 9780007250554
Автор: Mantel Hilary

A Place to Call Home
East Kent, 1876



With doting parents and siblings she adores, sixteen-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a contented life at Willow Place in Canterbury. A bright future ahead of her, she dreams of following in her mother s footsteps and becoming a teacher.



Then one traumatic day turns the Cheevers household upside-down. What was once a safe haven has become a place of peril, and Rose is forced to flee with the younger children. Desperate, she seeks refuge in a remote village with a long lost grandmother who did not know she existed.



But safety comes at a price, and the arrival of a young stranger with connections to her past raises uncomfortable questions about what the future holds. Somehow, Rose must find the strength to keep her family together. Above all else, though, she needs a place to call home.

Серия: Maids of Kent
Год: 2018
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891727
ISBN: 9781784756246
Автор: Grace Evie

A Place to Call Home
Ellen thought she'd always live in the remote, pretty coastal village where she grew up. After all, her husband, Harry, works on a farm where he's guaranteed a job and home for life.



But when the old landowner dies and the couple and their young children are forced from their cottage, the future is suddenly bleak. Rather than stay - and starve - in the countryside they love, Harry sets out to find a job in the factories and mills of nearby Hull, and Ellen must leave behind everything she's ever known to follow her husband and build a new life for her family on the unfamiliar city streets.



The road ahead is full of hardships and challenges. But with love and determination, they make the best of things, forging friendships with other newcomers and refugees; even helping them to succeed in their new surroundings.



Then tragedy threatens Ellen's fragile happiness. How much more can she sacrifice before they find a place to call home?



Val Wood's wonderful historical sagas are perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Rosie Goodwin.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889700
ISBN: 9780552173926
Автор: Wood Val

A Possible Life
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.



Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.



A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.



Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection - some key to understanding what makes us the people we become.



Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885675
ISBN: 9780099549222
Автор: Faulks Sebastian

A Post Office Christmas
Can they deliver hope and friendship this Christmas?



1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Home Depot, Milly Woods is looking forward to spending as much time as possible with her Post Office girls, Nora and Beth - known as Liza to her friends. With Christmas fast approaching, their job of getting millions of letters and parcels to the troops on the front line is more important than ever.



But when Milly is moved to a different department, she and the girls struggle to find time to spend together. Feeling more and more lonely, Milly finds company and common ground at her local suffragette group - as well as catching the eye of a wounded ex-soldier at the Home Depot.



But soon, Milly discovers that her new friends might not be what they seem. As she is drawn into a deadly plan that could affect the outcome of the war, can her Post Office girls help her get back on track, and scupper the plan in time for Christmas?
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 910188
ISBN: 9781529310313
Автор: Cooper Poppy

A Prayer For The Ship
Memories are short on HMS Royston - they have to be.



As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs she must carry out her vital role whatever the conditions, whatever the risk.



Sub-Lieutenant Royce is newly assigned to MTB 1991, joining a crew already seasoned by death and fear.

Now with only three months' sea-experience behind him, Royce must learn the job the hard way - in the tough school of combat.



A classic tale of naval warfare from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master of naval fiction, who served with the Royal Navy on convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the North Sea. He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Год: 2003
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 891692
ISBN: 9781784753238
Автор: Reeman Douglas

A Question of Trust
1950s London. Tom Knelston is charismatic, working class and driven by ambition, ideals and passion. He is a man to watch. His wife Alice shares his vision. It seems they are the perfect match.



Then out of the blue, Tom meets beautiful and unhappily married Diana Southcott, a fashion model. An exciting but dangerous affair is inevitable and potentially damaging to their careers. And when a child becomes ill, Tom is forced to make decisions about his principles, his reputation, his marriage, and most of all, his love for his child.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 909328
ISBN: 9780755377640
Автор: Vincenzi Penny

A Ration Book Childhood
In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever.



With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing raids in London's East End, Ida Brogan is doing her very best to keep their spirits up. The Blitz has hit the Brogans hard, and rationing is more challenging than ever, but they are doing all they can to help the war effort.



When Ida's oldest friend Ellen returns to town, sick and in dire need of help, it is to Ida that she turns. But Ellen carries a secret, one that threatens not only Ida's marriage, but the entire foundation of the Brogan family. Can Ida let go of the past and see a way to forgive her friend? And can she overcome her sadness to find a place in her heart for a little boy, one who will need a mother more than ever in these dark times?



Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2019
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929537
ISBN: 9781786496072
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Ration Book Christmas
In the darkest days of the Blitz, Christmas is more important than ever.



With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London s East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe s nightly reign of death and destruction, the family must do all they can to keep a stiff upper lip.



For Jo, the youngest of the Brogan sisters, the perils of war also offer a new-found freedom. Jo falls in love with Tommy, a man known for his dangerous reputation as much as his charm. But as the falling bombs devastate their neighbourhood and rationing begins to bite, will the Brogans manage to pull together a traditional family Christmas? And will Jo find the love and security she seeks in a time of such grave peril?



Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2018
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929511
ISBN: 9781786491404
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Ration Book Daughter
Not even the Blitz can shake a mother s love.



Cathy was a happy, blushing bride when Britain went to war with Germany three years ago. But her youthful dreams were crushed by her violent husband Stanley s involvement with the fascist black-shirts, and even when he s conscripted to fight she knows it s only a brief respite divorce is not an option. Cathy, a true Brogan daughter, stays strong for her beloved little son Peter.



When a telegram arrives declaring that her husband is missing in action, Cathy can finally allow herself to hope she only has to wait 6 months before she is legally a widow and can move on with her life. In the meantime, she has to keep Peter safe and fed. So she advertises for a lodger, and Sergeant Archie McIntosh of the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad turns up. He is kind, clever and thoughtful; their mutual attraction is instant. But with Stanley s fate still unclear, and the Blitz raging on over London s East End, will Cathy ever have the love she deserves?



Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2021
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929316
ISBN: 9781838950927
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Ration Book Dream
In the darkest days of the Blitz, hope is more important than ever.



It's 1939, and as the country is preparing for the challenging times ahead, the Brogan family of London's East End is trying to keep their spirits up. But things don't seem so rosy when rationing, evacuation and air-raids start to put this larger-than-life family to the test.



When a mysterious young man arrives in the local community, he provides just the dazzling distraction they need - and for eldest daughter Mattie, the promise of more than she'd ever wished for. But as the pair fall deeper in love, they are drawn into secret dangers, rife on the very London streets they call home. As the young couple race to protect the East End, can their dreams survive the darkening backdrop of wartime ?



Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.



Previously Published as Pocketful of Dreams.

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2019
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929439
ISBN: 9781786491381
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Ration Book Victory
In the final days of war, only love will pull her through...



Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Mahone. But when tragedy struck and Patrick's narrow-minded sister, Nora, intervened, the lovers were torn apart.



Fate can be cruel, and when Queenie arrives in London she finds that Patrick Mahone is her parish priest, and that the love she had tried to suppress flares again in her heart.



But now in the final months of WW2, Queenie discovers Father Mahone is dying and must face losing him forever. Can she finally tell him the secret she has kept for over fifty years or will Nora once again come between them?



And if Queenie does decide to finally tell Patrick, could the truth destroy the Brogan family?

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2022
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929387
ISBN: 9781838950941
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Ration Book Wedding
In the darkest days of the Blitz, love is more important than ever.



It's February 1942, and as the Americans finally join Britain and her allies, twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by recently married Charlie Brogan, who is fighting in North Africa with the Eighth Army.



When Francesca starts a new job for the BBC Overseas department, she meets handsome Count Leo D'Angelo and begins to put her hopeless love for Charlie aside. But then Charlie returns from the front, his marriage in ruins and his heart burning for Francesca at last. Could she, a good Catholic girl, countenance an affair with the man she has always longed for? Or should she choose Leo and a different, less dangerous path?



Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.

Серия: Ration Book series
Год: 2020
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929458
ISBN: 9781786496096
Автор: Fullerton Jean

A Regimental Affair
Canada 1817: Captain Matthew Hervey is suffering the effects of unrest within his beloved regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons.



Their new commanding officer - wealthy, arrogant and cruel - has taken an immediate dislike to him. Somehow, Hervey must earn promotion while retaining his integrity and the loyalty of his men.



Then the regiment is sent to Canada where, in the aftermath of war with the United States, Hervey faces danger on two fronts. Murderous native tribes are on the move.



While, closer to home, he and his commanding officer have embarked on a collision course - the consequences of which will be devastating...



Have you read A Close Run Thing and The Nizam's Daughters - the first two Matthew Hervey adventures? A Regimental Affair is the third book in Allan Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series. His adventures continue in A Call to Arms.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Bantam books
Артикул: 889999
ISBN: 9780553507157
Автор: Mallinson Allan

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
From Daniel Mason, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner comes a collection of interlacing tales of men and women as they face the mysteries and magic of the world.



On a fated flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.



At times funny and irreverent, always moving, these stories cap a fifteen-year project that has won both a National Magazine Award and Pushcart Prize. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-wracked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are lives of ecstasy and epiphany.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902583
ISBN: 9781529038507
Автор: Mason Daniel