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Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Alone in the world, the two of them must make a life for themselves in the wake of the terrible upbringing they have endured.But when Tommy is struck down by illness, Sarah?s new life collapses. Lost in grief, she turns to the handsome Roger to save her - only to find that he is not who he seems?Waiting in the wings is George - kind, but brutally scarred, Sarah?s never seen him as anything more than a friend. But could all that be about to change?The...
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Moving seamlessly between Cuba where Mercader lived out the last years of his life, Mercader?s early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky?s long years of exile, it is the story of revolutions fought and betrayed, the ways in which men?s which men?s political convictions are continually tested and manipulated.
23) Anyush
Author
Publisher
Brandon
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On the Black Sea coast, Anyush Charcoudian dances at her friend?s wedding, dreaming of a life beyond her small Armenian village. Defying tradition, she embarks on a secret and dangerous affair with a Turkish officer, Captain Jahan Orfalea. As the First World War rages, the Armenian people are branded enemies of the state, and atrocities grow day by day. Torn apart and catapulted into a struggle to survive in the face of persecution and hatred, the...
24) The pages
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Narrated in the voice of Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion, Hugo Hamilton's stunning, formally inventive new novel tells the life story of that book, initially rescued from the Nazi book-burning in Berlin in May 1933. It recounts the life of its Austrian-Jewish author, a writer on the run, and his intriguing wife Friederike who fell victim to mental illness. And it tells a multitude of other stories: of Adreas Pum, a barrel-organ player down on...
Author
Publisher
Sort Of
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Among them was ten year old Lore Segal. For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people?s houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeds and two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows...
26) A family secret
Author
Language
English
Description
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 goodmarriage but behind closed doors she's heartbreakingly...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets. His work...
28) Tidelands
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different ... Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free...
Author
Series
The seven sisters volume 3
Language
English
Description
Star D'Apliese is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father - the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the...
30) Rose Rivers
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy - but she?s not satisfied. Why can?t she be sent away to a good school like her twin brother? Why can?t she learn to become a famous artist like her father or his friend Paris Walker? Why is life so unfair for people who were not born rich? When a young girl, Clover Moon, joins the household as a nursemaid...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Language
English
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Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, this novel contains three main characters who get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. It is about Africa, about the end of colonialism, about class and race, and the ways in which love can complicate these things.
32) Still life
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Language
English
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Description
By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood? and the ghost of E.M. Forster. We just need to know what the heart?s capable of, Evelyn.And do you know what it?s capable of?I do. Grace and fury. It?s 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around...
33) The gifts
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
It can take something extraordinary to show us who we truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger ....
34) Violeta
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A Christmas short story from Sunday Times bestseller Nadine Dorries. 1950s Liverpool. Christmas is one of the most harrowing times of year for the nurses of St Angelus Hospital. The Matron takes on Tilly, a new clerk, to ease the load in the busy festive period. Tilly is bright and hard-working, but she is keeping a secret from her colleagues. Everyday Tilly makes a heartbreaking decision - but she has no other choice. If Matron - with her traditional...
36) Norse mythology
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page - irascible, visceral, playful, passionate...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The brand-new unforgettable romance saga from the No.1 bestselling author - available to pre-order now!Taking deep breaths of the cold city air, Katherine whispered, ?This isn?t the London I know.? East-End London, 1858. In London's twisting streets, it's hard to tell friend from foe. And for Katherine Martin, arriving back in London after years away, the city is far crueller than she remembers.Her eyes opened to the plight of London's...
38) Light perpetual
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Lunchtime, a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages - after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. In it were five little children. Atomised. Who were they? What future did they lose? Running another reel, another version of time, Perpetual Light is the rest...
39) The moon sister
Author
Series
The seven sisters volume 5
Language
English
Description
Experience the grandeur of the remote Scottish Highlands and Madrid in this USA TODAY bestselling ?beautifully written...magical adventure? (Woman?s World) following two women connected across time and distance as they search for the truth of their place in the world. Tiggy D?Aplis̈e spends her days reveling in the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands, where she works at a deer sanctuary. But when the sanctuary is forced to close, she decides to...
40) Actress
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O?Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London?s West End. Katherine?s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine?s past, or the world?s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother?s secrets, she acquires a few of her own....
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