Margaret Mayhew
2) Dry bones
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2012
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The Colonel returns, in an atmospheric village mystery from best-selling author Margaret Mayhew. In his time living in the peaceful village of Frog?s End, the Colonel has learned that although the place looks as lively as a stagnant pond, there is plenty going on. When he receives a letter from an old friend of his late wife, telling him that ?something horrible has happened? and asking for his help, he is intrigued and happy to assist her. But when...
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A thrilling Second World War saga - In the summer of 1936, a teenage German boy, Reinhard Richter, is sailing in his father?s yacht, Sturmwind, off Scotland. Moored in an island cove, he meets Stroma Mackay and is captivated by her. He persuades her to write to him in Hamburg, and their correspondence continues until war is declared. Reinhard joins the elite U-boat service, while Stroma serves as a plotter in the WRNS, helping fight the desperate...
7) Our Yanks
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2001
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During August 1943, a Fighter Group of the American Eighth Army Air Force arrived in a quiet English village. Initially disliked, as time went by the villagers grew to know them and the damned Yanks turned into Our Yanks.
10) Bitter poison
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Frog End, that most quintessential of English villages, is preparing for its annual Christmas pantomime. This year, it's Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairytale 'The Snow Queen'. Local busybody Marjorie Cuthbertson is on the hunt for her leading lady - and who better to play the icy queen than beautiful new resident, ex-model Joan Dryden. But as i
13) Bluebirds
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Corgi Books
Pub. Date
2015
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It's 1939 and in the back of a lorry, a strangely assorted group of young women are on their way to RAF Colston. They are the first of the WAAFs. Station Commander David Palmer doesn't want them in his station, but the officer in charge of the girls, Felicity Newman vows to mould them into a disciplined fighting unit. Originally published: 1993