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As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training at St Angelus Hospital. Dana has escaped from her family farm on the west coast of...

Roman-fleuve à l'écriture puissante et poétique, Amadoca retrace l'histoire de l'Ukraine au xxe siècle, de la répression stalinienne à la guerre du Donbass, en passant par l'Holodomor et l'Holocauste. Une œuvre essentielle, par l'une des plus grandes autrices ukrainiennes actuelles...

The heart-rending first novel in a brand-new series from the author of Rosie's Dilemma and The Coal Miner's Wife In 1911 in Wiltshire, a young orphan promises to find out the truth about her mother. Abandoned as a small child, Sally Brown was raised by a kindly rector and his wife. Now eighteen...

'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and...

The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with The Four Streets and continued in Hide Her Name. Christmas morning, 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a cold, unfriendly Irish convent. She knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger...

In the Four Streets, a dreadful murder has been committed and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man's child. This secret is so dangerous that it is decided Kitty must go to Ireland to await the baby's birth. But in Liverpool, the police aren't giving up their search for the...

A heartbreaking novel from the bestselling author of The Four Streets. 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?...

County Mayo, Ireland, 1947. In the worst winter in living memory, Ruby Flynn is rescued from the tiny cottage on the Atlantic coast where her family has perished. She is one of the storm orphans, taken in by nuns to be educated for a life in service. Now she must find her own way in the outside...

The second gripping novel in the Lovely Lane series, from bestselling author Nadine Dorries. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson. The nurses of Lovely Lane – Dana, Victoria, Pammy and Beth – are now in their second year and are about to face some truly harrowing and...

1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless – and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it...

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As winter tightens its grip, who can she trust? As the dark nights draw in, secrets hide in the shadows… When Betsy Strong’s mother marries a cruel man, her happy family life is shattered, and Betsy is forced to flee. Seeking refuge with her godmother at her isolated Yorkshire cottage, she...

Will a wartime Christmas bring them heartache or joy? A moving tale of secrets, sacrifice and second chances It’s 1943, and the sisters and cousins of Victory Walk are keeping the home fires burning as war rages on. Beneath their own rooftops, secrets are simmering … Daisy juggles long days...

Auf Gut Traubnitz entscheidet sich das Schicksal zweier Schwestern: Ein bewegender Roman über verbotene Liebe, dunkle Geheimnisse und den Mut zum Widerstand von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn Berlin, 1913: Helena von Traubnitz trotzt den Erwartungen ihrer Familie und verfolgt ihren Traum, Lehrerin zu werden. Doch in der Großstadt lauert eine Bedrohung aus der Vergangenheit. Auf Gut Traubnitz zerbricht unterdessen die Welt ihrer Schwester Johanna, als ihre große Liebe Edgar ohne Erklärung in die Nacht verschwindet.

In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City, James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia. Jakka has taken his army and Ki, the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's...

Based on the true story of Alessandro de' Medici, this sweeping novel follows a Black woman's secret plot to put her son on a Renaissance throne. In 1490, a dark-skinned baby girl arrives at the Santo Spirito foundling hospital with a bronze dagger strapped to her chest. Raised by Iye, a scarred...

EN FAMILIE MED HEMMELIGHEDER – TRE SØSTRE, SOM IKKE KENDER FORTIDEN. BERGEN, 1899 Edvards uventede frieri fylder Susanna med tvivl – og håb. Vil det kunne sikre hendes fremtid én gang for alle? Samtidig ved hun, at et ja fra hendes side vil ryste hele familien. Hun satte sig på trappen...

Bernice has worked hard to fight for her career as a nanny in the face of her mother's disapproval. Despite her upper-class upbringing, she knows she is made for this job and loves the children she cares for. But when her family starts to crumble and her mother falls sick, the pressures mount, especially as her mother wants her daughter at her beck and call.

Can she ever forgive the mother who abandoned her? Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. When young Polly Merton’s beloved grandfather dies, she is forced into sharing a home with the last person she expected: the mother who left her...

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...