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61) The night diary
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees...
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'An entertaining and thought provoking fable' SFX 'A mesmerising, stunningly crafted story of loss and the importance of dreams' Waterstones _____________________ Welcome to the Winter Garden. Open only at 13 o'clock. I am looking for the most magical, spectacular, remarkable pleasure garden this world has to offer. On the night her mother dies, 8-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic,...
63) Dark rider
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An electrifying tale of deadly and forbidden desire that sweeps from the exotic islands of a tropical paradise to the magnificent estates of Regency England. Cassandra Deville's carefree life on the islands of Hawaii is shattered by the sudden arrival of a savagely seductive stranger. She's the key to Jared Daremount's plan to avenge his father, actually only a pawn in his plans, but once she becomes his captive, Jared realizes she's a prize he can...
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Language
English
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Description
The follow-up to 'The Lavender Keeper'. 1945. Luc and Lisette Ravens have somehow survived their time as a resistance fighter and a British spy. Haunted by the horrors they have seen, they set sail for Australia, hoping to rebuild their lives. But the past cannot be evaded so simply. When a Swiss student learns of a truth that connects his family with the Ravens, he finds himself holding the key to his own future - and to Luc's troubled past.
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ryder Cavanaugh?s step-siblings are determined to make their own marks in London society. Seeking fortune and passion, THE CAVANAUGHS will delight readers with their bold exploits.An independent noblemanLord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted-but only to family. To the rest of the world he?s aloof and untouchable, a respected and driven entrepreneur. But Rand yearns for more in life, and when he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment,...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family?s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she?s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane?s mother says. In a respectable house. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it?s a literal...
67) Commonwealth
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Language
English
Description
It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day 7 years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now 24, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her...
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Language
English
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Description
The son of a socialist German shopkeeper, Edward Enger has one dream: to turn his father?s modest delicatessen into an empire. With an astute head for business and talent for making money, he achieves success beyond his wildest imagination. Yet something is keeping him from enjoying his extraordinary good fortune. Fourteen-year-old Edward believed he would love ten-year-old Margaret Proster all the days of his life ... until...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonia Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London from the war seven years later, Sidney has gained...
70) The French wife
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Love, secrets and danger abound in the new historical novel from bestselling author Diney Costeloe, set in 19th-century France. As the St Clair family prepare for the grand wedding of their daughter, Clarice, trouble is brewing. An old friendship, a new love and a dangerous secret threaten to destroy the life the St Clairs have built. Their younger daughter, Hľn̈e, became friends with orphaned Annette during the terrible events of the 1871 siege...
71) Dark tides
Author
Series
The Fairmile volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Number One bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of theTidelandsfamily in London, Venice and New England. Midsummer?s Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: money, land, status - and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. Meanwhile in...
72) The wonder
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Series
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes....
Author
Series
The Liverpool Sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
?Home is where the heart is, and my heart belongs to Liverpool. We wouldn?t dream of leavin? our beloved city?? August 1940: As the Luftwaffe swarm over Liverpool, Shane Quinn decides to move his family back to the safety of Ireland. But his only child, the beautiful Dana, would rather stay and serve her country than flee to a foreign land. Determined to make it on her own, she joins the WAAF with newfound pals Patty and Lucy. There?s plenty of excitement...
74) Our Jacko
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Language
English
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Description
A deeply personal and tender story of war, peace and those who are left behind. One hundred years after the war to end all wars, Jacko?s descendants discover his notebook and the untold stories tucked in its pages. "This war is a nightmare that one day I shall wake from and then forget. And if I don't wake, then you shall never know. I don't want you ever to know." No one seems to know where the scruffy tin hat came from - just that it is very old,...
75) The blind light
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This deeply moving novel tells the interconnected story of two very different families, during a time of momentous change in twentieth-century Britain.
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Language
English
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Description
London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Retreating to the countryside with her son, she encounters rumours of the 'Essex Serpent', a creature of folklore said to have returned to roam the marshes. Cora is enthralled, believing it may be an undiscovered species. Setting out on its trail, she collides with local minister William Ransome, who thinks the cure for...
77) The good people
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story. In 1825, in a remote Irish valley lying between the mountains and Flesk river of Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events. Nora Leahy, a widow, has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her grandson, Michael. The boy cannot walk or speak and Nora has kept him hidden from neighbours, who might see in his deformity evidence of supernatural...
78) Mothering Sunday
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray. Lisette Forestier is on a mission of her own: to work her way into the heart of a senior German officer - and to bring down the Reich in any way she can. What Luc and Lisette hadn't...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The sins of Adam Hardesty's past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all . But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that Adam's quest for justice could shatter her own reputation-and mire her family in lethal scandal. And she fears what he may find. Together, they will navigate the shadow side of London, venturing into an underworld of...
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