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France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus Hospital. Son Finn has done something unheard-of and passed his Eleven Plus exam. How on earth will they pay for his books, his grammar school uniform and shoes? Bronia Ryan has battled depression since her husband died and now one of her sons is in prison. Her youngest, Lorcan, wants no part of a life of crime, but how can he ever escape? Or protect his mother from her vicious eldest son?

In the worst winter in living memory, Ruby Flynn is rescued from the tiny cottage on the Atlantic coast where her family has perished. When Ruby is appointed as their nursery maid, a dangerous attraction to the young Lord FitzDeane begins to grow. Soon the tragedies and secrets that link her family to his will threaten to overwhelm them. The darkest sins cast the longest shadows.

Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War begins Since the age of thirteen, Lanny Budd has been more than an eyewitness to history. From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, he has played key roles in the extraordinary...

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Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Literary Hub, Today In...

Brought to you by Penguin. Faced with the prospect of having to repeat a year in school, twelve-year-old Milan tells his parents the first lie he can think of: his bad grades are due to the genocide in Rwanda, his mother's homeland. In reality, he knows little about Rwanda or his mother's past...

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...

In 1941, Violet Rookwood and her mother flee war-torn London for a Cornwall farm owned by their family. There, under the floorboards of her bedroom, Violet finds a journal written by a Catholic woman more than three hundred years ago, confessing to a forbidden love. In 1606, on this very farm, Maria Wolveden sheltered Jago Carlyon, a fugitive priest sought for treason. In a time when all Catholics were suspect, Maria’s protective love for Jago grew stronger, as did the mortal dangers of harboring a wanted man.

Could the secret of her past risk her future happiness? Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. Young Beth Sherwin dreams of going to university – a heady ambition for a girl whose family work in Potteries factories. But when a violent...

'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...

A sweeping tale of secrets and survival set against the mystical backdrop of Nepal, and the tropical heat of 1940s Malaya. In the heart of bustling Kathmandu, Chloe Rai's quaint bookshop is a sanctuary for those seeking solace within the pages of timeworn stories. But when she discovers a...

'Every time I think Kristin Harmel's books can't get any better, they do' Sally Hepworth 'Romantic, sweeping, and deeply emotional-this is Kristin Harmel at her absolute best' Christina Lauren 'A transportive and much-needed trip to Paris . . . I stayed up all night finishing this one' Jo Piazza...

London, 1942: The threat of German invasion has abated, and the war has entered a new chapter, famously summed up by Winston Churchill as "the end of the beginning." While Churchill faces mounting pressure and calls for his resignation, a dark new horror is unfolding across the channel, as the...

In this gripping, emotionally layered novel set in Prohibition-era Martha’s Vineyard, a young woman from a Black seafaring family plunges into the dangerous world of rum-running to save her home and uncover the truth about her father’s death. Martha’s Vineyard, 1923. The sea was the gift...

In 1929, twenty daredevil women take to the skies in the most dangerous race of their lives. Florence “Pancho” Barnes—heiress, rebel, and the most colorful pilot in America—can outfly, outswear, and outdrive any man. When Hollywood tries to turn the first-ever cross-country National...

Scotland, 1918 As the war ends, Jenny Gillespie plans a new life in Glasgow, eager to escape her domineering, alcoholic father. But when her brother Maurice is reported missing in action, she must remain in the Clydeside town of Ellerslie, working at a shipyard tracing office to help support her struggling family—including her parents, grandmother, younger sister, and Maurice’s unmarried partner and child. Frustrated by her stalled future, Jenny is unsettled by the return of her former beau, Robert Archer, now her supervisor.

Als Liesel ihre Großmutter Emmi auf eine Reise in die ehemalige Provinz Ostpreußen begleitet, sucht sie mehr als nur einen Ort – sie sucht Antworten. Antworten auf die Fragen, die zwischen den Generationen stehen, auf die Geheimnisse, die sich in vergilbten Kalendern und in Emmis Schweigen verstecken. Zwischen Birkenalleen, alten Gutshäusern und dem Rauschen der Ostsee entfaltet sich eine Geschichte von Verlust und Hoffnung, von Schuld und Liebe.

In einem Schweizer Dorf an der Grenze zu Deutschland betreibt vor 100 Jahren der junge Wirt Arnold einen Gasthof. Arnold heiratet sie und bekommt mit ihr acht Kinder. Das Leben nimmt seinen Lauf, bis sich die älteste Tochter Clara 1933 in einen Schmuggler namens Hermann verliebt. Der bringt die Uniformierten auf beiden Seiten der Grenze gegen sich auf. Es geschieht ein Drama – und das Dorf erhebt sich gegen eine Großmacht.

'A brilliantly clever tale about time travel gone wrong. Bold, convincing and beautifully told – I could not put this book down' – CLARE LESLIE HALL 'So impressive. It made me see London in a completely new way and brought the Blitz to life. Incredibly clever - I loved it' HARRIET TYCE...