20th Century
The Mother’s Story
The author is the mother of Irish singers Margo and Daniel O’Donnell, and this is her story of growing up…
Away
Editors' choice
In July of 1924, Lillian Leyb stands in line with hundreds of other women, waiting to interview for a job…
They Also Serve
This is the second instalment of an epic war time saga which began with Now is the Hour. It picks…
Playing With The Moon
Their small son having been killed in a road accident, Tom and Minna Byrne rent a house in an isolated…
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911
“I have been born at the end of the age of peace and can’t expect to feel anything but despair,”…
Bargain Bride
Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching at the local school, but she is not so sure about her love for…
Sweethearts
Cordelia and Lexa are heartbroken when they lose the family greengrocery, but soon find work and love in very different…
The Hearts of Horses
The ranchers of 1917 Elwha County, Oregon, might have expected a female stranger to be a “land girl,” a city-dweller…
Tomorrow The World
I’d heard raves about John Biggins’s novels set in the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now I understand…
Tree Of Smoke
William “Skip” Sands is training for his CIA job as a spy in Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong in…
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