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The Girls in Blue
When her London home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Miranda Beddoes has no choice but to take refuge at…
The Nightingale Girls
This is a story about love and life for three very different girls as they become nurses on the wards…
Death and the Maiden: A Max Liebermann Mystery
Sixth in a series starring psychoanalyst Max Liebermann, a “consulting” psychiatrist to the Prague police department, Death and the Maiden…
Madame Serpent
The first volume of Jean Plaidy’s Catherine de Medici trilogy, this story begins with her unfortunate childhood as an orphan…
The Elizabethans
Readers seeking political intrigue, court skullduggery, ceremonial pomp, amorous relationships, or even literary, economic, and philosophical history of the 16th…
You Are My Sunshine
In wartime England you are supposed to grow up fast and do your bit, and this is how lovely Kay,…
Spitfire Girl
This is the third of Lily Baxter’s Second World War novels, and it follows the fortunes of 18-year-old orphan Susan…
Accidents of Providence
Set in England during Cromwell’s interregnum, Accidents of Providence centers on Rachel Lockyer, a glove maker’s apprentice accused of murdering…
A Mother’s Secret
If you like books with a pretty girl on the front dressed in period costume looking meaningful and mysterious, perhaps…
We’ll Meet Again
At seventeen, Meg Colivet is living a privileged life with her wealthy family at Colivet Manor in Guernsey. In April…
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