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Half a Sixpence
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Set in rural east Kent in the 1830s, this book follows the life of Catherine Rook. She is born into a prosperous farming ...Read Review
District Nurse on Call
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Set in West Yorkshire in 1926, the latest novel by Donna Douglas introduces us to District Nursing in a mining community in the village ...Read Review
Shipyard Girls at War
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Shipyard Girls at War displays the struggles of women shipbuilders based in the Sunderland shipyards. This takes place during the Second World War ...Read Review
Sisters at War
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Bryony ‘Bee’ Miller runs her deceased father’s light aircraft business jointly with Eddie, who was her father’s best friend. She shares ...Read Review
A Nightingale Christmas Carol
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Towards the end of 1944, the East End of London had suffered huge devastation from the blitz, leaving a landscape devoid of many landmarks ...Read Review
The Shipyard Girls
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1940, and Britain is at war and the majority of young adult men are off fighting, creating a shortage of skilled labour. The obvious ...Read Review
Above Us the Sky
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Phyllie Saunders is a newly qualified teacher about to shepherd her young charges onto a train to Dorset, where they will be billeted ...Read Review
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
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In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review
When Daddy Came Home
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The Second World War brought with it long separation of lovers, spouses and families. The armed services survived by concentrating on discipline, camaraderie ...Read Review
Some Lucky Day
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In 1942, 21-year-old Kitty Pargeter is serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary. She and her best friend, Charlotte, are two of the rare female ...Read Review
