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81) The mill girl
Author
Publisher
Corsair
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life is tough on the cobbled backstreet courtyards of Abbey Street, Warwickshire, in the 1840s: boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, clever, feisty Maryann is happy there - until her mother dies. Her family collapses, leaving Maryann coping with everything, exhausted and lonely. Especially as Toby, the boy she is set on marrying, insists they wait. When things are at their bleakest, Maryann is offered a lifeline: a position...
Author
Series
The Shipyard Girls volume 7
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sunderland, 1942: Christmas is fast approaching and with it comes a flurry of snow and surprises. Against all odds, Polly's fiance has finally returned home from the front line. If they can keep things on an even keel, she might get the winter wedding she's always dreamed of. Meanwhile shipyard manager Helen is determined to move on after a turbulent year. Her sights are set on breaking the yard's production record and no one, not even the handsome...
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a summer weekend in 1926 the Ingham family gathers at Cavendon Hall, the great house in Yorkshire that has been their family home for centuries, summoned by the Earl. With them are the Swanns who have served the house for generations - and know all their secrets. The estate is under threat; the aftermath of the Great War has left Cavendon facing ruin. Its heir is pushing for divorce so he can follow his heart. And the Earl has a surprise of his...
84) Sisters of gold
Author
Series
Sisters of Gold volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago, they long for her every day. Their frightfully protective father keeps the girls close but he can't protect them forever. When a scandal rocks the family, the girls are forced to leave their home. The girls flee to Birmingham's jewellery quarter to stay with the one person they can rely on - Uncle Goldsmith. Annie takes up work at a nearby factory, where she learns to forge cutlery, and Margaret...
85) Home front girls
Author
Publisher
Canvas
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Dotty, Lucy and Annabelle all turn up for work at Coventry's department store Owen Owen at the same time as war is declared. Dotty has never known a life outside of the orphanage where she grew up. Lucy is the sole carer of her little sister; she's head of the home now that her brother has gone to war. So she seeks out a job at Owen Owen. Annabelle has led a life of privilege but everyone's having to pinch the pennies at the moment. The well-off are...
86) Snow bride
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nancy seems to have found her happily ever after. She is surrounded by family and engaged to marry the man of her dreams. But when her fiance's father insists they wait a year to prove that their love is true, the young couple's feelings are put to the test. The path of true love never runs smooth, but as the snow begins to fall, Nancy will need to trust her heart for her Christmas wishes to come true.
87) Flood of fire
Author
Series
Ibis Trilogy volume No 3
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It is 1839, and tension have been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue....
Author
Series
Jolly's volume 4
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's seldom a dull moment at Jolly's holiday camp in high season, with the campers and staff intent on having the time of their lives. But in the middle of winter, when the campsite is shut, an eerie silence descends upon the ballroom, the big wheel at the fun fair stops turning and the swimming pool lies empty. But this winter things are about to change: Drina Jolly's daughter-in-law Rhonnie returns with her young son to oversee some major renovations...
89) One quiet woman
Author
Series
Ellindale volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A new Lancashire-based series, this is a heartwarming saga following the strong and resilient women living in this post-war region, from the bestselling author.
Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India and Britain at its peak of worldwide power. James Falconer, known as Jimmy, is a barrow boy working for his father on the stalls in the Malvern Market. Alexis Malvern is an only child, raised by her father, Henry, who has built a real estate empire in London and a successful trading business in Le Havre. Trained by her father and heir to his businesses, Alexis has no interest in marrying. But when James...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The compelling new book from the author of The Girl in the Ragged Shawl and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Danny gets a terrible start in life and runs away from his drunken father when he thrashes him to within an inch of his life. But life on the streets is no better and he falls into the clutches of evil men, finding that being big and strong for his age is no protection from the people who want to do him harm. Help comes in the form of Constable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two orphans must battle heartache and despair in the latest novel from the bestselling author of An Orphans Courage and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Jonny has had a bad start in life and has been taken in by a neighbour after the death of his mother. Small for his age, he is prey to a band of local thugs so joins the boxing club and learns to defend himself. When a violent altercation ends in tragedy, Jonny runs away and meets a homeless young...
93) Sunday's child
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
94) Crossroads
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen...
95) Cavendon Hall
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Two best friends: DeLacy Ingham, daughter of the earl, and Ceci Swann, daughter of the valet. Inseparable from childhood, but with two very different destinies. But the year is 1913, and soon life as the two families of Cavendon Hall know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse...
96) Four sisters
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hull, 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother's death 10 years ago. To celebrate her 18th birthday, their father takes all four sisters on holiday where two painters offer to immortalise their happiness forever. But their joy is short-lived - a little while after they return home, their father is critically injured when he is hit by a horse. The sisters have no way of knowing what has happened to him. With little...
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The great house of Cavendon Hall has a new generation of children playing in its halls and gardens. After the ravages of the Great War and the Great Depression, the future looks assured for the first time in a decade. But over Europe the storm clouds of war are gathering. And it must be the estate's younger generation who step forward to play their part and fight for their country, young men and women from both above and below stairs. Tracing the...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
1959. Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, nineteen-year-old Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to lick her wounds and decide what to do with the rest of her life. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger offers the possibility of new romance. But is the man who gives his name as Tim Murphy really all he seems?
99) One kind man
Author
Series
Ellindale volume 2
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelling to keep the sad memories at bay. Just as he's ready to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and leaves everything to him. This includes Heythorpe House in Ellindale just down the road from Leah Willcox and her little fizzy drink factory. Finn finds a village of people in need of jobs, a house that hasn't been cleaned or lived in for 30 years and Reggie, a boy who's...
100) A Liverpool song
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Sanderson, brilliant surgeon and renowned musician, is still grieving the death of his beloved wife Mary when his younger daughter turns up on the doorstep having left her wealthy and philandering husband. It's not long before the house is overrun with daughters, grandchildren, sons-in-law and a boisterous stray dog called Storm. At Andrew's time of life, is this really what he needs? One thing is sure, home is a lot more interesting than it...
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