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Now that Nell's three sons are in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while. But her house on Peppercorn Street isn't fit to live in, and Nell is happy to sell it and allow a builder to create Cinnamon Gardens. Her elderly neighbour Winifred, however, wants to stay in the only home she's ever known. Violence escalates as someone tries to frighten the old lady into selling, and to make matters worse, her young friend Janey is being stalked.

Liverpool, 1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move to central Liverpool. With a hardworking mother, a sick father and her family close to ruin, Polly is easily led astray by the handsome, Sunny Anderson. But soon war looms, and Sunny joins the navy to train as a signaller. After the horrors of the May blitz, Polly decides she too wants to help her country and goes into the WRNS. She hears that an old flame, Tad Donoghue, is now in the Royal Air Force. Tad hopes to be reunited with his Polly, but she is in love with Sunny... isn't she?

Rosalind's husband forces her to move from Australia to England for his job with a multinational company. But he's called away to deal with a crisis in Hong Kong, and she's left to settle into a new country on her own. One by one, her three grown-up children experience major life problems and there's only her to help them, because as usual, Paul puts his job first. Then she finds out that her husband's been unfaithful for years, and it's the final blow to their marriage, especially as she's met another man she finds attractive and kind.

Rosie finds it hard to cope with her eldest sister's over-possessive nature. Since the death of their mother Beatrice has been insufferably dominating, taking over the running of the house and ruling their father and servants with an iron hand. She glories in being the mistress at Pine Hurst and...

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils unceasingly through pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with untold wealth.

1938, Paris. War is looming and eighteen-year-old Daisy Blakely arrives in Paris as apprentice to the renowned fashion designer Coco Chanel. Enchanted by the beauty and glamour of the City of Light, Daisy's life is a whirlwind of couture and culture. And when she meets charming and enigmatic...

Andet bind i serien Trelennas hemmeligheder CORNWALL, 1869. Da Grace som tolvårig bliver forældreløs, kommer hun i tjeneste som køkkenpige på herregården Trelenna House. Det viser sig, at hun har et medfødt talent for at lave mad, så da herregårdens aldrende kok går på pension, får...

Adelina ist zurück! Die lang ersehnte Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Romanreihe aus dem mittelalterlichen Köln. Diesmal gehen Mutter und Tochter gemeinsam auf Verbrecherjagd. Katharina Burka, die wissbegierige Tochter der angesehenen Apothekerin Adelina und des Medicus Neklas, hegt eine...

A firefighter’s death is ruled an accident, but was it? When DC firefighter Colby Paulson dies during a warehouse fire, the loss brings firefighters from across the country to Washington for his funeral. But two weeks later, Colby’s friend Jonah Murray walks into Lieutenant Sam Holland’s...

Eine mutige Unternehmerin, eine junge Sängerin und ein Traum, der soziale Grenzen überwindet Bergisches Land, im 19. Jahrhundert. Seit dem frühen Tod ihres Mannes führt Maria Zanders die Papierfabrik ihrer Familie entschlossen weiter. Auch als kunstsinnige Mäzenin macht sie sich einen Namen. Bald wird der Altenberger Dom, für dessen Restaurierung sie sich eingesetzt hat, mit einem Konzert feierlich wiedereröffnet. Was für eine Freude, zu diesem Anlass auch die Sängerin Henriette wiederzusehen!

Mallory Mason said yes to coffee with Conor O'Dell. Then she said yes to dinner. Now she's saying yes to things she hasn't let herself want in eight years. Dating the town's celebrity baker should be simple, but Mallory's past won't stay buried. When phone calls from people she thought were gone...

She's half the world away, but her heart remains in India. Adela dreams of a life on stage and cannot wait to take her place in the glittering society of India in the dying days of the Raj. Bold and ambitious, nothing will stand in her way - until she falls in love and life takes an unexpected...

Eira Pritchard has been holding everything together since she was twenty-three. Her parents are dead, and her little brother's boarding school tuition swallows her salary whole. She's one of London's best preservation architects—and she's living in an illegal basement apartment with a hot...

EN FAMILIE MED HEMMELIGHEDER – TRE SØSTRE, SOM IKKE KENDER FORTIDEN. BERGEN, 1900 I Edinburgh er sandheden om Isaks forsvinden langsomt ved at blive opklaret takket være Edvard Falchenberg. Men han gør intet uden at få noget til gengæld … Mathilde så en sejlbåd passere. Tankerne gik...

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 new tale of female camaraderie and romance in an idyllic setting from beloved saga author Rosie Meddon When one woman's second chance at love comes under threat, will she find happiness again? Sussex, 1943. When Veronica Claremont is suddenly widowed, she must hand over the running of the...

Discover the start of a wartime saga series from Renita D'Silva, author of the West India Dock Road novels An emotional, uplifting saga of sisterhood, sacrifice, love and community, set against the backdrop of WWI Brighton, 1914. Jean Morgan has always put others first. So, when her mother died...

“Fizzing with romance and longing, Rabbit Rabbit is a breathless novel about beautiful, impossible love and a meditation on the inextricable nature of joy and grief.”—Emma Brodie, author of Into the Blue “That once-in-a-generation romance that gets everything exactly right.”—Annabel...

A BRAND NEW powerful and emotional historical novel from Jina Bacarr, bestselling author of The Orphans of Berlin. Paris, 1943: How much will one mother sacrifice to save the innocent? Lia di Montieri is the star of the flying trapeze, risking her life every night. But by day, it’s her...

Discover the heart-wrenching historical saga from BESTSELLER Chrissie Walsh. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin, Katie Flynn and Dilly Court! West Yorkshire, 1913 Nineteen-year-old Lacey Barraclough is no ordinary mill girl. Toiling in the sweltering, soot-stained weaving sheds of Brearley’s...