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Tilly Trotter

by: Catherine Cookson

Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls in the villages of County Durham. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work' to help out the grandparents who raised her. There's an unusual beauty to her too -- a beauty that's envied by the local women and lusted after by the men. But...

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Our Little Secret

by: Rosie Goodwin

At just twenty years old, Claire McMullen is the new owner of the Seabourne Hotel. She's a mystery to everyone around her -- and that's how she wants to keep it. Abused as a child and forced to sell her body to survive, Claire has built a barrier around herself that she is sure no one will ever...

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Sixpence In Her Shoe

by: Frances McNeil

When Jessica Price was a little girl, her father, a shoemender, gave her a beautiful new pair of shoes with a sixpence hidden in the toe of one. From the fairies, he explained: 'For luck, and to say you have far to go in life.' But in this captivating novel set in working-class Leeds in the...

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Theatre of War

by: Hilary Green

It is 1942. The theatres of war are North Africa and Italy. All eyes follow the front, but behind the scenes a messier war continues, an improvised game of snatched triumphs, terrible mistakes and torturous uncertainty. Cabaret singer by night, spy by day, Richard risks his life to help British...

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Child of Sorrow

by: Una Horne

Born the day of the great mining disaster at Jane Pit, Merry Trent's start in life is marked with tragedy. She is brought up by her only surviving relative, her feisty grandmother Peggy, living in poverty-stricken isolation in the deserted village near the old pit. Times are hard, and then an...

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All My Sins Remembered

by: Rosie Thomas

From the author of "Bad Girls, Good Women", this story is set in Britain and Germany between the two World Wars, and tells of the families of beautiful twin sisters, one of whom marries a British peer and the other a university professor, a European-Jewish refugee

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The Other Side of Paradise

by: Margaret Mayhew

She lived only for pleasure...until war forced her to find courage she did not know she had, and love where she least expected it. It is 1941, and while Britain is in the grip of war, life in the Far East is one of wealth and privilege. In Singapore Susan Roper, secure in the supremacy of the...

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Gypsy

by: Lesley Pearse

Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home...Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive...

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In Chancery

by: John Galsworthy

This text is the second volume of the first of the three Forsyte trilogies. It records the feud between Soames and his cousin "Young" Jolyon. The personal dramas of the Forsytes take place against the backdrop of the Boer War and the threat it poses to prosperity

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Secrets of the Heart

by: Gilda O'Neill

They believed it would never happen again. They hoped it would be over by Christmas...Britain is at war and the proximity of the docks means that life in and around London's Turnbury Buildings is hard and dangerous. Chances are taken, people have secrets, hearts are broken. And feelings about...