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Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Includes the first two books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, the record-setting Man Booker prize-winners ?Wolf Hall? and ?Bring Up the Bodies?. ? A Place of Greater Safety? is an epic of Revolutionary France. The darkly comic ?Beyond Black? is a lively tale of a psychic and the impish spirits she summons. ?The Giant, O?Brien? tells the story of the legendary Charles Byrne and the surgeon who wanted his bones. And a family seeks refuge after an unfortunate...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Can love conquer all? Spring 1939 - dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will?s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job - a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for...
Author
Publisher
Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2024
Description
From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis. March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie...
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 3
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Ravaged by disease, tormented by vice, Lucius Cornelius Sulla has returned from exile determined to rebuild it, even if it means taking battle to the very walls of Rome and purging the city with blood. There will be deaths without number or limit, but amid the chaos, three infinitely ambitious young Romans vie for greatness. The young wolves are Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Crassus and the man the world will one day know by just one name: Caesar. Together,...
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Series
Coronation Close volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2025
Description
The BRAND NEW instalment in Lizzie Lane's bestselling Coronation Close series. As the war rages, the women must keep the home fires burning... Bristol 1941 Coronation Close survives the brutal Bristol Blitz but with rationing, call up papers and new rules and regulations everyone's lives are changed forever. Resident do-gooder PC Percy Routledge's obsession with rules being upheld finds him spying and reporting fellow neighbours on the slightest infraction...
Author
Series
Dunbar's Hotel volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2025
Description
The first in a nostalgic and heart-warming WWII saga series by bestselling author Maisie Thomas, that readers of Ellie Dean and Lesley Eames will love. Manchester, 1941 Kitty learned early on in her marriage that her husband, Bill Dunbar, isn?t reliable with money. So when they inherit the Dunbar family hotel at the start of the war, she's hopeful that their financial worries are over? until the bailiffs turn up! With Bill away fighting, it?s up to...
Author
Publisher
HopeRoad Publishing.com
Pub. Date
2023
Description
After World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the 'Mother Country'. Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the considerable sum of �28.10s to board HMT Empire Windrush - the 'ship of dreams' that would take them to their new lives. The motives and back-stories of these West Indian people is a key part of the Windrush story, one that...
Author
Series
The North and South Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The first volume of John Jakes?s acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is...
9) Love and war
Author
Series
The North and South Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The Main and Hazard families clash on and off the Civil War?s battlefields as they grapple with the violent realities of a divided nation America?s master storyteller continues his reign with Love and War, a story steeped in passion and betrayal. With the Confederate and Union armies furiously fighting, the once-steadfast bond between the Main and Hazard families continues to be tested. From opposite sides of the conflict, they face heartache and...
10) The four streets
Author
Series
The Four Streets Saga volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2014
Description
1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless - and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. Will her adored father wake up to what is happening before it is too late? The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community. And yet, how long can she possibly live with it?...
11) Golden lion
Author
Series
Courtney volume 14
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Description
East African Coast, 1670. In a time of brave and brutal adventure, one man will journey across land and sea to pursue his greatest enemy ? The Golden Bough, captained by Henry ?Hal? Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. Below deck, both his crew and his lover, the fearless warrior Judith Nazet, sleep. As the moon glints through clouds, Hal sights a ship passing close by. Although there is an uneasy truce between the warring English...
12) The grass crown
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Under his command, Rome has conquered the Western world, weathered invasion and crushed its enemies. There is just one prize left to him: an unprecedented seventh consulship. But the greatest prize demands the highest price. Marius, now aging and ailing, is pitted against a new generation of assassins, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers. There are many who would like to see him fail, not least Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once his closest ally, now his...
13) Heaven and hell
Author
Series
The North and South Trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The searing conclusion to the North and South Trilogy brings the battle between the Mains and Hazards-and Confederate and Union armies-to a brilliantly satisfying end The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and Hazard families. As the Mains? South smolders in the ruins of defeat, the Hazards? North pushes blindly for relentless industrial progress. Both the nation and the families? long-standing bond hover on the brink of destruction....
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2015
Description
This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it was like to be them - letters, drawings, text messages, emails and social network exhibitionism. But unlike texts, emails or television, poetry allows people from distant times to talk directly to us, with nobody else getting in the way: a mediaeval ploughman, a Tudor drunk or a jilted Georgian woman can look us in the eyes....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2025
Description
Be one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition! In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America?s rising eugenics movement - when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin - in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers...
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Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The third thrilling novel from the author of Ella?s Journey and Alice?s Secret, prepare to discover the truth about Sarah ?Sarah dreams of a more exciting life? but will she get more than she bargained for?Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company, she longs to be reunited with her mother and sisters in Manchester.When she meets the mysterious Joe Bancroft, she feels her luck might be changing. And,...
17) Desired
Author
Series
Scandalous Women of the Ton volume 5
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Covent Garden, London, October 1816 Tess Darent?s world is unravelling. Danger threatens her stepchildren and she is about to be unmasked as a radical political cartoonist and thrown into gaol. The only thing that can save her is a respectable marriage. But when it comes to tying the knot Tess requires a very special husband - one who has neither the desire nor the ability to consummate their marriage.Owen Purchase, Viscount Rothbury cannot resist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Maze
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Ella is trying to put the past behind her, but the past won?t always stay hidden.The truth is, Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lane End Cottage in the tiny Yorkshire village they had lived in all their lives. A scandal that her sister Alice was blamed for.But Alice is no longer here. So it?s up to Ella to pick up the pieces and do the best she can for the family she loves so dearly.Ella?s luck finally...
19) Mothering Sunday
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and...
20) The good people
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
In 1825, in a remote valley in Ireland, three women are brought together by troubling events. N�ra cares for her orphaned four-year-old grandson, who can neither walk nor speak. She hires a servant girl, Mary, to help her. Soon, Mary hears rumours in the valley about the dark powers of this strange little boy. In desperation, N�ra and Mary turn to Nance Roche, a woman who locals say has the knowledge. That she consorts with the Good People, and...
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