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Alfie Day has been an RAF tail gunner and a starved, beaten POW. Five years have passed, and Alfred…
The Joys of Love
Twenty-year-old Elizabeth Jerrold, an aspiring actress, spends the summer of 1946 as an apprentice with a summer theatre company…
The Angel Gang
“Turn on the radio, would you, Denny? … Find something loud, with horns.” So begins this Jazz Age crime…
The Winter of the World
Love, betrayal, and a terrible debt to pay are the themes of The Winter of the World, the debut…
Burn My Heart
This powerful novel brings to life the Kenya Emergency of the early 1950s, when a group of freedom fighters…
Blue Skies and Gunfire
Set in World War II, the story begins with Josie’s final term of school being interrupted when she is…
Shelter From the Storm
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from…
Roses for Rebecca
At the end of the Second World War, Rebecca Lawson is orphaned and homeless. She goes to live and work…
Freedom Train
Clyde Thomason has everything to live for and plenty to escape! His brother is serving as an Army Guard…
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological…
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