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1) Disobedience
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation...
2) The Victim
Author
Series
The Mitchells and O?Haras Trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
If you live for your family, would you die for your family?The third novel in the compulsive Mitchells and O?Haras trilogy.Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell.Not only has she lost custody of her two children to their sadistic father, gypsy Jed O?Hara, she is also pregnant and banged up in Holloway awaiting trial for attempted murder.In Frankie?s absence, her father, underworld boss Eddie Mitchell, is determined to get his own back. Eddie plans...
3) White teeth
Author
Language
English
Description
Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys...
Author
Series
The Tea Rose volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is 1914 and World War I looms over Europe. In London Seamus Finnegan a famous polar explorer considers settling down and taking up a prestigious position with the Royal Geographical Society. Unfortunately, despite many eager women around him, no one is able to soothe the pain left in his heart by Willa Alden, a childhood sweetheart and fellow traveller, who after an accident on mount Kilimanjaro, disappeared into the Himalayan...
6) The tea rose
Author
Series
The Tea Rose volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is 1888 and Jack The Ripper is stalking the streets of Whitechapel. For the people that live there, he is just one more adversary in their everyday battle to survive. Despite working long days at the tea factory, and the constant threat of the Ripper, Fiona Finnegan knows that her life is better than some. With a father in work, a roof over her head, enough to eat and a loving family to keep her warm, she is among 'the respectable working poor.'...
Author
Series
The Tea Rose volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When India Selwyn Jones graduates from medical school and sets off for her first job in a Whitechapel clinic, she is full of ideas on how to educate London's poorest inhabitants to the dangers of malnutrition and poor hygiene, saving them from their own ignorance. When the rough and dashing Sid Malone head of 'The Firm' and London's biggest criminal becomes one of her patients, he begins to open her eyes to the realities of life...
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. In dramatic contrast to her own conventional family, the Radley's were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad....
9) Queenie
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Before the Butlers, came QUEENIE?Whitechapel in the 1930s was not an easy place to be brought up, and when the war came those with nothing were hit the hardest. Queenie watched her family struggle and learned her lessons the hard way. When she was a little girl there was one thing Queenie knew - she was going to get out of this? And then tall, dark and handsome Alfie Butler walks into her life and gives Queenie her ticket out. One rushed wedding later,...
10) Sunday's child
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship - until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now eighteen years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But she can't help wondering who her parents really were. When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton - kind and warm-hearted, he might just be the...
11) A valley secret
Author
Series
Backshaw Moss volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lancashire, 1930s. When her mother dies, leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's identity, 22-year-old Maisie Bassett is determined to make a fresh start. Changing her name and moving to the small town of Rivenshaw, she finds a respectable job in a grocery store. But unwanted attentions from a man at her new church make life increasingly difficult - until the shy, handsome Gabriel Harte comes to her rescue. Then she receives an inheritance...
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Magna
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
London, 1914. Sick and injured servicemen are returning home and Lizzie Kellaway and her godmother Margaret Penrose are determined to do their bit to help them. With Lizzie's beautiful singing voice and Margaret's talent for the piano, concerts in hospitals and convalescent homes offer the perfect opportunity to lift the spirits of men who have suffered so much. When Polly Meadows's fiance rejects her and leaves for the war, she doesn't hesitate before...
13) A valley dream
Author
Series
Backshaw Moss volume 1
Language
English
Description
1935. At 36, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as his unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves her a house in the village of Backshaw Moss, Thomas tries to take it from her, but she defies him and grasps this chance of a new start in Lancashire. The house is on the edge of a slum and in a state of disrepair. As kind people help her find her feet, however, her confidence grows and when she meets struggling, widowed father-of-three...
Author
Series
East End ration book volume 8
Language
English
Description
Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, daughter of Irish Travellers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart Patrick Mahon. But when tragedy struck, and Patrick's narrow-minded sister Nora intervened, the lovers were torn apart. Fate can be cruel: when Queenie arrives in London, she finds that Patrick Mahon is her parish priest, and the love she had tried to suppress...
Author
Language
English
Description
1961: On a summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on, 16-year-old Laurel hides out in her tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.
16) The winding road
Author
Series
Dynasty volume 34
Publisher
Sphere
Language
English
Description
The Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, where Polly Morland is the most feted beauty of the day. But a proposal of marriage from the powerful, enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threaten disaster.
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