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It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by food and job shorta...

With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightin...

From the author of the bestselling tale The Girl of Ink & Stars comes a beautiful new adventure about finding your way home. There are some pla...

The war is over, Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal ...

In London's twisting streets, it's hard to tell friend from foe. And for Katherine Martin, arriving back in London after years away, the city is fa...

With his compelling Centurions trilogy complete, Anthony Riches returns to his bestselling Empire sequence of novels with his storytelling skills p...

In love and war, who can you trust? 1944, Hampshire. Her face still bearing the scars from the explosion at the factory, Rita Brown is nonetheless ...

What is it about we Australians, eh? demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jeffer...

Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, 12-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ...

A warm and heartfelt WW2 saga of hope, love, and female friendship and how women pull together through good times and bad. Perfect for fans of Dill...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive y...

Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Sh...

To find what she has lost she must go back to the beginning . . . 1924 The First World War is over and eleven-year-old Alexa is growing up on the ...

When a young woman faces unimaginable heartache, she vows to make a difference... A moving saga of anguish, hope and never-ceasing fortitude, The ...

Merryn Fenner is on a mission to ruin the Duke of Farne. A beautiful bluestocking with a penchant for justice, Merryn has waited ten years to satis...

An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War...

Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death... The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one...

Wiltshire, December 1915. Olivia Hanbury is widowed and has been persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is se...

British title for A Northern Light... When Mattie is given letters by a guest at the hotel where she has a summer job, she thinks the guest is sim...

Haydens new novel poignantly tells of a daughters attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mothers haunted past Warm. melancholy and evocatively ren...

Two husbands dead , a boy and a sick man . Now katharine is free her own choice. The ageingking'seye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him .. Or be...

DESTINY IS ALL. BBC2’s major Autumn 2015 TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and...

Country girl Tara is whisked off to Sixties London to become a pop star; there she is dressed, she is shown off at Chelsea parties, photographed by...

A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart... Dorset, 1933: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a ...