The thrilling new book from Sheila Riley in her Liverpool Saga series 1916 LIVERPOOLFollowing the death of her father, Ruby Swift, and husband Archie finally move back into Ashland Hall.As the Great War rages, fathers and sons take the King's Shilling and head off to fight the unknown enemy, not knowing what horrors lie ahead. With Ned Kincaid in the Navy, Archie signs up to the volunteer constabulary and nurses Anna Cassidy and Ellie Harrington enlist to do their bit for King and Country. Soon...
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The continuing story of Emma Harte, indomitable heroine of A Woman of Substance. Emma Harte is now eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of the vast business empire she has created. To her favourite grandchild, Paula McGill Fairley, Emma bequeaths her mighty retailing empire with these heartfelt words: `I charge you to hold my dream.' A towering international success, this is the powerfully moving tale of one woman's determination...
Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats as part of a new range of Stefan Zweig paperbacks. Kept away for nine years by the First World War Ludwig has finally returned home, reunited at last with the woman he had so passiona...
Another gripping saga from the queen of Southampton, combining the passion and power of novels by Josephine Cox and Martina Cole Life is far from comfortable for Elsa Carter, working on a fruit and veg stall in the seedy but colourful area of Southampton's docklands in the 1930s. She also has her drunken father to deal with and constantly struggles to shield her mother from his violent rages. But, despite everything, Elsa is a cheery, spirited girl and she finds comfort in her fiance, Peter Ada...
Deadly Promise (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels, #6)
by Brenda Joyce
Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king.
This work is set inIreland, 1912. Now in her fifties and a grandmother, Rose Hamilton has much to be thankful for in the steady love of her husband John and their relative prosperity. But she is concerned for her children: Sarah, recently widowed, is burdened with grief and worried by signs of trade union discontent in the Sinton family mills. Sam, married to cold, selfish Martha, is struggling to bring up his six children. Only Hannah, happily married and living in England, causes Rose no worry...
The complete six-book collection of the Ration Book series, collected together for the first time. From the queen of the East End, Jean Fullerton, the Ration Book series features the Brogan family and their community in London's East End during WW2. Now enjoy the full series in its original form. Ration Book SeriesA Ration Book DreamA Ration Book ChristmasA Ration Book ChildhoodA Ration Book WeddingA Ration Book DaughterA Ration Book Victory
Lindsay Pass is left without choices after her mother's murder. Forced into a life with a father she doesn't know, Lindsay has to start fresh. Luc Fricke loves Lindsay the first time he sees her. He knows she has a new life with a new family. He vows to be part of it all. Ernie Atkins wants Lindsay for himself. He'll get her no matter what, even if he has to steal her, even if it kills him. When the worst occurs, Lindsay is again without choice and must rely on instinct to protect everyone she l...
In this emotional novel based on Greece's real history we follow three generations of one family, broken apart by secrets and war, as Olivia travels to the island of her mother's birth to piece together a century's worth of her family's past. On the Greek island of Castellorizo young Sofía must put her big dreams on hold to support her older sister Maria with her large family. But World War II is looming and while the idyllic island may seem far from harm at first, there are unspeakable danger...
She wanted a new life. Now she’s risking it to save others. Cecily Hanson longs to live life on her own terms—to leave the shadow of her overbearing mother and marry her childhood sweetheart once he returns from the Great War. But when her fiancé is lost at sea, this future is shattered. Looking for meaning again, she decides to perform for the troops in France. Life on the front line is both rewarding and terrifying, and Cecily soon finds herself more involved—and more in danger—than she ever...
The Heart of the Home (A Badgers Brook Saga, #4)
by Grace Thompson
Meriel Evans had worked in her father's estate agency since leaving school and she was happy there, but at twenty-nine she knew she had to make a move. She found a place at the Ace Estate Agency but realised at once that the owner, George Dexter, and her father knew and disliked each other. Though neither would explain why. She was attracted to the house called Badgers Brook and determined to stay, even though she would miss her parents and her lifetime love, Leo Hopkins. The quarrel between Dex...
When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the age of six, she is taken from her parents’ tea plantation, the only home she has ever known, to be raised halfway across the world in Scotland. As the years pass and her exotic childhood becomes a distant memory, adventurous Sophie finds refuge in her friendship with her kind, shy cousin, Tilly. It is no surprise when the girls follow each other to India to embark on new adventures, new lives and new loves. But the reality of 1920s India is far removed f...