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A Sacred Storm

8th Century Sweden: Erlan Aurvandil, a Viking outlander, has pledged his sword to Sviggar Ivarsson, King of the Sveärs, and sworn enemy of the Danish

Time to Say Goodbye

Imogen, Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it difficult to place them. When Auntie and her niece,

In Love and War

uly, 1919. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt, three women arrive at the end of the war, searching for

The girl from Penvarris

When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher. Instead,she goes into service at the

Fourth Shore

Moving between past and present, to explore Liliana's years as a young woman in Tripoli under Italian occupation, The Fourth Shore shines a light on

Let Loose the Tigers

Queenie Bedford left Blackburn and Rick Marsden, the man she loved but could never marry. In 1965, she returned to stand by her friend Sheila

Leopard at the Door

Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the

Gilding the Lily

A heartrending tale of two sisters and their quest for a place to belong, from much-loved author Rita Bradshaw. Lily and Sarah Brown's childhood is

Distant Dream

It's 1936 in West London, and fifteen-year-old May Stubbs and her family have endured the worst of The Depression. Looking forward to a more prosperous

Somewhere Over England

This is a heart-wrenching wartime novel of shame, betrayal, loyalty and love. It is previously published as A Fragment of Time. In England in the

Cornish Harvest

Lizzie Treloweth is one of ten children. With the outbreak of World War I, their father enlists and the family struggle to run his butcher's

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

Keystone, West Virginia, 1910. In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows

Pack Up Your Troubles

1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward

The Bully of Order

Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, a spellbinding novel of fate

The Road to Grantchester

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 Caledonian Club. No

The Hat Girl From Silver Street

Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father, Thomas, is wheelchair-bound by an accident at the tube works, the responsibility for keeping a roof

The Pre-War House and Other Stories

Shortlisted for the East Midlandâe(tm)s Book Award 2014The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse,

The Dissent of Annie Lang

'My story starts and ends at railway stations, though of course I can't know this yet as I clamber off the boat-train at Victoria that

The Holy City: A Tale of Clydebank

Tells the story of Marion McLeod, the daughter of a riveter, who has been brought up in the Clydebank tenements and brings the horror and

House of Gold

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who

Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant

The Front Runner

Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid… In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the

Invitation to a Bonfire

1930s America: Zoya Andropova, a young Russian refugee, finds herself in an elite New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home and her

The Attraction of Onlookers : Aberfan : the Anatomy of a Welsh Village

In October of 1966, a coal waste tip slipped down the mountainside above the Welsh village of Aberfan and buried its school, killing 116 children.

The Grand Sophy

The charming Sophia Stanton-Lacy is a force to be reckoned with. When Sophy is sent to stay with her London relatives, she finds her cousins

Devil's Cub

Mary Challoner must protect her sister at all costs. When she discovers that the notorious Marquis of Vidal is planning to run away with her

Secret Daughter

Loss Phyllis Kimber's entire future is called into question after her father is killed in Earl Redfern's employ. But the earl knows something about Phyllis

Convicts Wife

An ever-popular setting of 19th-century industrialisation and looming cotton mills in Northern England, featuring a thrilling combination of Lancaster gaol and the Austra...

The Fisher Lass

Flame-haired Jeannie Buchanan has spent all her life in the shadow of the dark North Sea. Working with freezing fingers to gut the precious herring,

The Glittering Hour

Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the

Dark Days For The Tabacco Girls

The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives

War Baby

Some battles will be fought on the Homefront... The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at

Titian's Boatman

Este 1576 și Veneția este în haos, devastată de ciumă și copleșită de crimă. În mijlocul anarhiei găsim acele suflete curajoase care au ales să

Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton

Most esteemed members of the Ton, we are delighted to extend a very special invitation . . . let the notorious Lady Whistledown be your

The Queen's Promise

Alluring Anne Boleyn knows she is required to use her charm to her advantage - and secure the status of her family at the Tudor

Victoria & Albert

Victoria & Albert prezintă povestea dintre Victoria și Albert, cuplul regal care a ieșit din tipare. Poate că a fost o căsătorie aranjată, însă din

Sarah Thornhill

Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her willful, but handsome Jack Langland...

The Patriots

Pierde-te în povestea irezistibilă a călătoriei unei femei prin Rusia secolului XX. Crescând în Brooklynul anilor 1930, Florence Fein va face orice pentru a scăpa

These Old Shades

Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud. Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades

Cotillion

Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch. Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but

Shipyard Girls in Love

Is all fair in love and war? Set during World War II in the heart of Sunderland's shipbuilding yards, Shipyard Girls in Love follows Nancy's

Wartime Brides

Edna's fiance , Colin, comes home crippled. Charlotte's doctor husband, who was a loving and gentle father, returns a violent, disturbed man with no love

Flora's War

With Andrew away fighting, Flora finds herself in an impossible situation: alone and pregnant. Out of desperation, she travels to Andrew's country estate, but she

Homecoming Girls

Hull, 1874. The beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to her origins far

For a Mother's Sins

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland known as Batty Green to build a viaduct

Secrets Of The Sewing Bee

Orfana Flossy Brown sosește la fabrica de confecții Trout din Bethnal Green în mijlocul incertitudinii celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. În Londra anilor 1940, fiecare

My Last Duchess

Cora Cash, possibly the wealthiest heiress in 1890s America, has been raised to believe that money will open every door to her. But when her

The Girl from Kingsland Market

Southampton 1920. Phoebe Collins rose to the challenge of running the family fruit and vegetable stall in Kingsland Market after her father did not return

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course

All the Wrong Places

War Baby

The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby

Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a

Henderson's Boys Vol 5: The Prisoner

The fifth adventure in the Henderson's Boys series: find out how CHERUB began! One of Henderson's best agents is being held captive in Frankfurt. A

Dead Man Switch

The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young German immigrant plunges her right back into the danger and

A Grasp Of Kaspar

Munich 1956. The war is over but not forgotten. The West German economic miracle is underway, and American investors are looking for opportunities, but some

Time's Convert

From human to vampire... Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with

The Blessed Child

Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are evicted from their

Pages

'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian Barry The new novel about the

The Sealwoman's Gift

1627. Într-un eveniment istoric binecunoscut, pirații au atacat coasta Islandei și au răpit 400 de oameni pe care i-au făcut sclavi în Alger. Printre ei,

Billionaires' Banquet

1985, Edinburgh. Thatcher’s policies are biting deep – fat cats and street-kids, lovers, losers and the rest struggle to survive. Hume sets up a business

Arabella

To Arabella Tallant, the eldest daughter of a penniless country clergyman, the invitation to stay with her London godmother was like the key to heaven,

The Amateur Marriage

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in

Only Time Will Tell

It is 1920, and against the backdrop of a world ravaged by conflict, Harry's story begins with the words 'I was told that my father

Whispers in the Town

For West London girls Sal and Ann Storey, 1957 should have been one of the happiest years of their lives. Instead, the sisters' world is

A Place of Confinement

Dido Kent's sister-in-law Margaret is attempting to marry her off to the ghastly clergyman Doctor Prowdlee, with his abominable side-whiskers. Dido, however, is determine...

Such sweet sorrow

Pontypridd, in 1939, blackouts and conscription shatter family life. Three women are separated, possibly forever from the men they love. Jenny Powell's husband, Eddie, ...

Through the Storm

Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most of the

The Falling Sword

THE FALLING SWORD is the gripping follow-up to CLASH OF EMPIRES from Ben Kane, the master of historical fiction - for fans of Simon Scarrow,

Blame the Dead

Ed Ruggero's Blame the Dead is the thrilling start of an action-packed and timely World War II series by a former Army Officer for fans

The Paris Architect

A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a

Black Jersey

A fast-paced mystery where Murder on the Orient Express meets the Tour de France—someone’s killing off cyclists one by one. There are cyclists willing to

Kitty Little

Charlotte believes she can have any man she wants, and she wants Archie – no matter who is standing in her way. Esme is in

Mill on the Floss

Based on the author's own experiences, this accurate, evocative portrait of 19th-century English rural life explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction

ODYSSEUS

A man becomes a hero . . . As a young boy in Ithaca, Odysseus listens in wonder to his grandfather Autolykos, a man feared

Painted Ladies

Paris 1917. For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard's companion and muse. His new model Renee, lovely and captivating, thinks it's time

The Undiscovered Country

1920, the Irish War of Independence. Amid the turmoil of an emerging nation, two young IRA members assigned to police a rural village discover the

Daughters of Cornwall

Three women. A chance to rewrite history... 1918.The Great War is over, and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall - to meet

The Young Survivors

Five orphaned siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart. What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken

Once a Laird

Reuniți în cele din urmă, vor ceda ei pasiunii lor? După moartea logodnicei sale, Kai Ramsey a părăsit Scoția pentru a cutreiera țările îndepărtate. După

Liverpool Angels

Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Mae Strickland is only a few days old when her mother suddenly dies. Her aunt Maggie brings

Alamein

There are some battles that, had the other side won, would have totally altered the course of history. This is one of those battles ..

A Ration Book Victory : The brand new heartwarming historical fiction romance

Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning

Tsarina: A Novel

St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father

Golden Wolf

The fates of Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild unfold to their stunning conclusion in this riveting final volume in The Golden Wolf Saga, a trilogy