WWI
The Bookbinder of Jericho (UK) / The Bookbinder (US)
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Oxford 1914, and Peggy Jones’ job involves folding folios of paper and making up volumes in the Clarendon Press bindery in Oxford. She is ...Read Review
The World in a Sandbag
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Knowledge of the military history of the British army during the First World War and the part played in it by Irish battalions ...Read Review
The President’s Wife
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In 1915, Edith Galt, a wealthy widow living in Washington, DC, is introduced to Helen Bones, a cousin to President Woodrow Wilson, who is ...Read Review
The Sixpenny Orphan
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Glenda Young specialises in heart-warming stories set in her native Northumbria. The Sixpenny Orphan is set in the early 20th century in the ...Read Review
The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War (The Royal Station Master’s Daughters Series book 2)
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This novel was inspired by the history of the Saward family whose many generations were closely associated with Wolferton railway station, which served ...Read Review
The Graces
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1918. Mount St Kilian Abbey, Dublin. Brother Thomas is visited by Father Sheridan, who has come to speak to him about Rosaleen Moore, revered ...Read Review
Riders Upon the Storm (Casemate Fiction)
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In November 1917, twenty-six-year-old Benedict (Ben) Snow has been working on a Great Lakes ore carrier. He quits to join the U.S. Navy, ...Read Review
Canary Girls
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With Great Britain’s involvement in the Great War ramping up, April Tipton, a housemaid, and Lucy Dempsey, a housewife whose architect husband ...Read Review
The Haunting Scent of Poppies
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Hampshire, Christmas 1918: lying low to avoid the consequences of a botched job back in London, criminal Charlie Briggs thinks his fortune is made, ...Read Review
The Hidden Letters
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Summer 1914. A dramatic encounter by a moonlit lake brings together debutante Cordelia and Isaac, the handsome landscape gardener hired by her father to ...Read Review