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It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liverpool, having been evacuated to Devonshire five years earlier. Their mother has been killed in the Blitz but the girls hope that with their beloved father's help they will be able to manage without assistance. All goes well until there is a terrible accident and Joy loses her sight. At first she is bitter and resentful whilst Gillian is racked with guilt.

Initially viewed with scepticism, the female pilots who served with the Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain during World War II became a crucial, high-skilled and often unsung force that ferried 309,000 aircraft – from trainers to heavy bombers – from factories to Royal Air Force frontline bases, freeing up male combat pilots. The flying conditions were often dangerous – the so-called 'Attagirls' were required to fly 'anything to anywhere', usually with no radios or navigational equipment, and in high-risk conditions.

From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete—for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry. On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the...

Raised within a cosseted circle of British ex-pats in Florence, Iris shocked her family and friends when she married Antonio. Despite the protests of both families, they found a crumbling villa on a windy Tuscan hilltop, called La Foce, and they poured themselves into the house and the land--and...

Tartu, augusti 1944. Röda armén närmar sig, och urmakaren Rein Aule får en varning som förändrar allt: hans namn har kommit upp i Berlin. Under kriget förbättrade han en tysk chiffermaskin — ett arbete han aldrig berättat om, inte ens för sin hustru. Nu är han inte längre en...

A heart-warming and rich tale of camaraderie and friendship among the land girls on the Suffolk coast in WWII, from the author of The Bomb Girls April 1942. Nestled on the beautiful Suffolk coast lies Deben Hall, welcoming conscripted women eager to help the war effort. Dreaming of leaving...

Flowers don't grow in concentration camps… Georg Gottlieb knows this better than anyone. Before the war, he was a joker, madly in love with Rose and living in Prague – but he had a gift for forgery that condemned him to one of the Nazis most secret projects: the counterfeiting of British...

Biting cold, thick fog and frigid, torrential rain…The perfect recipe for misery. The perfect cocktail for a deadly battle of wits. Near the end of the bitter Aleutian winter, a Soviet weather aircraft is shot down over the Japanese-held island of Attu. What few realize is that the five crewmembers aboard are not ordinary airmen, but members of a crack Soviet intelligence team carrying information vital to the coming Allied offensive. The Japanese know something is different… and they're determined to find the survivors before anyone else.

1916. Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her bullying family. As she wonders who she can turn to for help when she needs it most, she finds herself at the gates of Honeyfield.

Den svenske diplomaten Harald Edelstam, med täcknamn Svarta nejlikan, anländer till Oslo 1942, mitt i deporteringen av de norska judarna till förintelseläger. Edelstam blir snabbt involverad i det smutsiga kriget mellan Gestapo och en spretig motståndsrörelse. Snaran dras åt runt den...

Akari is Outlander meets Farewell to Manzanar from New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. Applied quantum physicist Akari Sato is working late at Los Alamos National Laboratory one night when she hears commotion from her lab. She finds intruders dressed in dated clothing rifling...

I Ödesnatten -44 möter läsaren 16-årige Erik från den Augustnominerade Land i lågor, 1992. Han har blivit antagen som volontär vid I 19 i Boden när en konvoj dyker upp på den finska sidan och Erik dras in i de dramatiska händelserna hösten 1944 vid den svensk-finska gränsen. Finska...

Col. John Randal and Lady Jane arrive in London just before Christmas 1943. They find themselves caught up in the murky world of Military Deception. MI-5 had captured every German spy in England and given them the choice of a firing squad or becoming a double agent working for the Double Cross Committee XX.

Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916) ha sido el primer best-seller de la historia y el libro más leído en los EE.UU. después de la Biblia, según The Illustrated London News. La novela cuenta la historia de dos familias provenientes de un tronco común, los Desnoyers y los Von Hartrott, que se enfrentan con el estallido de la contienda en Europa. En una metáfora del absurdo de la guerra, ambas familias terminan combatiendo en bandos opuestos en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

1942, Somerset: the war rages on, but the Cider Girls are ready for the fight of their lives. With the threat of a German invasion hanging heavy over Somerset, friends Rose, Daisy and Elsie, known as the Cider Girls, are doing everything they can to prepare. For newly-wed Land Girl Rose...

A BRAND NEW, captivating WW2 timeslip novel of hidden family secrets, love and resilience. Perfect for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Fiona Valpy. A forgotten puppet. A long-buried secret. A story waiting to be told. London, 2016. When Christa discovers an exquisitely carved puppet hidden in...

Discover a BRAND NEW emotional saga from bestselling author Elaine Johns! Perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Fenella J Miller Two strangers. One unforgettable night. A lifetime promise to find each other... Proud Leading Wren Sally Gordon is travelling to a new posting in Cornwall when an air...

Der Roman erzählt vom Leben in einer deutschen Stadt in den Jahren von 1920 bis 1934 am Beispiel der Geschicke von fünf Familien, die ganz unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Milieus repräsentieren. Im Vordergrund die Kinder, sowohl des klassenbewussten, politisch engagierten Arbeiters als auch des großbürgerlichen jüdischen Bankiers. Daneben die des liberalen, konfessionslosen intellektuellen Arztes, des faschistischen Kleinbürgers und schließlich des verarmten ostjüdischen Einwanderers.

The performance of a lifetime… by the wrong woman. June 1956. The world is overjoyed when reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film—a movie she wrote and starred in—after nearly a decade out of the public eye following a broken engagement...

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...