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Grete always longed to be a mother, but it never happened for her so, as the clouds of war gather over Europe, she’s devoting her time to helping Jewish children escape the Nazis. She remembers the face of every single child she’s taken on trains to freedom in the Netherlands. The danger increases with each trip, but, today, she has to get her best friend’s children to safety, because they are closest thing she has to family.

"I promise to write only what I saw and lived through, not hide anything from you. I'll tell you even the worst things I experienced, which may seem crazy or impossible... I remember them well. It all happened in the world we left behind." 1942, Lvov. Bina Krakowski is almost seven when the...

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

An epic tale of courage, love and heroism inspired by the true stories of women working as journalists during the Vietnam War. 1967. Jude Murphy has never taken no for an answer. When the Associated Press refuses to send her to cover Vietnam, she books her own flight to Saigon – typewriter in...

Two women in Cornwall are separated by centuries and united by secrets in this haunting historical novel about hope and a love so powerful it transcends time, persecution, and war. In 1941, Violet Rookwood and her mother flee war-torn London for a Cornwall farm owned by their family. There...

June 1944. When a Wehrmacht war crimes investigator and his escort are killed in an ambush, it looks like an opportunistic act of revenge by the Polish Resistance. But Jan Kalisz of the Warsaw Kripo, investigator and Polish double-agent, has his doubts. Fortunately, with the Red Army only a few hundred kilometres from the city, Kalisz’s boss, Hauptsturmführer Hoth, finds his faith in the Führer waning, and allows an investigation.

Bloomsbury presents The Room of the Dead by M.R.C. Kasasian, read by Emma Gregory A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off...

Als Tochter eines Seifensieders wird die siebzehnjährige Hanna 1865 in das Seifenhandwerk eingeführt. Schnell zeigt sich ihr Talent, doch als Frau hat sie keine Chance in diesem Beruf. Unterstützt von ihrem Bruder, der die Manufaktur übernehmen soll, entwickelt Hanna heimlich neue Rezepturen für herrlich duftende Seifen. Auch ihre große Liebe Louis steht ihr zur Seite.

London, 1916. It's only when her father dies that Louisa and her mother realise just how much debt their once-wealthy family is in. The only way she can save them is by marrying old, rich and leery Mr Mullen - Louisa can't imagine a fate worse than that. So when charming up-and-coming...

'I was completely gripped from the very beginning… Draws you in so completely… A touching, memorable read that will stay with me for a long time… I'll definitely be looking out for the next in the series!' Reader review, ★★★★★ Young Beth Sherwin dreams of going to university –...

En 1940, le jeune Adam est envoyé au camp de concentration de Sachsenhausen. Il a été arrêté en Pologne pour avoir voulu résister aux nazis. Malgré le froid, la faim, la peur et la mort omniprésents, Adam refuse de se laisser briser par les horreurs du camp. Avec David, un musicien juif...

'Absorbing, compelling and completely unputdownable, every Lulu Taylor novel grips you to the very end' – Lisa Jewell A legacy built on a lie. And a search to uncover the truth . . . Kent, 2002 Lottie Conway has spent her life in the shadow of a scandal that has ripped her family apart. Now...

The second in the highly praised Emily Grey series ‘Emily Grey proves so engaging that I hope she'll keep going into the Cold War', JakeKerridge, Daily Telegraph At the height of the First World War, Emily Grey finds herself far away from the action, collating Swiss rubber imports in a hut in...

1941, Giggleswick: Flora Whittaker runs The Cunning Vixen Inn, a small pub in the centre of the village. When her husband, Bill, re-enlists in the war, he leaves Flora to run the pub with the help of young May, the next-door neighbour’s daughter. Flora has several money-saving and illegal...

1943. The tide of war is turning. For months, the Japanese Empire has dominated the Pacific. Now, for the first time, it is being pushed back. Across the ocean, the Allies are striking on every front. Pearl Harbor is under relentless assault, American industry is surging back to life, and new fleets are entering the fight. In China, Japanese armies are reeling. In the Pacific, their once unstoppable advance is slowing… then faltering.

In a snowbound London, danger races down the tracks—can Becky and Flynn derail disaster before it’s too late? December 1915. Becky lies silent in a coma, framed for treason, while Flynn is caught in a treacherous web of spies and lies. With Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes unable to intervene, the stakes have never been graver. The enemy is relentless, and the battle has never been more personal.

A mother and daughter must break their family’s curse through trials of war and immigration, love, loss, and redemption in this “enchanting multi-generational tale” (People) with a shimmer of magic, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Forgery of Fate. ★“Lim dazzles in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Shattered Faces brings to life the extraordinary, nearly forgotten story of American sculptress Anna Coleman Ladd, whose courage and compassion transformed the lives of soldiers disfigured in the Great War. In 1917, as the world reels from unprecedented...

Als Anton Nero stirbt, hinterlässt er eine erfolgreiche Druckerei, seine Familie jedoch steht vor einer großen Lücke. Bald wird Antons Sohn Thomas bewusst, dass der Vater mehr war als der zupackende Geschäftsmann, der aus dem Nichts ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen aufgebaut hat. Dann stößt Thomas auf die Kriegstagebücher des Vaters und taucht ein in die Biografie eines Menschen inmitten der wechselvollen Geschichte Südtirols im 20. Jahrhundert, als die Region zum Spielball zwischen dem italienischen Faschismus und dem Deutschen Reich wurde.

A world on the brink of war. One woman whose courage could change everything. Paris, 1938. As Europe teeters on the edge of war, Lady Pamela More knows her latest assignment is her most dangerous yet. Her days as a London society columnist are merely a cover. She must infiltrate the decadent...