Ebury
The Girl in the Tower
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As a highborn girl in 14th-century Russia, Vasilisa Petrovna should be leading a sheltered and pious life, waiting for a good marriage – like ...Read Review
Workhouse Orphans
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Workhouse Orphans, described as “an uplifting story of the struggles of two children left with nowhere else to go”, is not the sort ...Read Review
The Coal Miner’s Daughter
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This novel was first published in 1994 as Come the Day and is set in the 1910s and 1920s. It begins in the coalmining ...Read Review
Shoes for Anthony
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The families living in a small Welsh village in the year 1944 eat and dress poorly. Eleven-year-old Anthony’s brothers work in the mines, ...Read Review
The Scarlet Sisters: My Nanna’s Story of Secrets and Heartache on the Banks of the River Thames
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The author paints a touching picture in this memoir beginning with the first chapter ‘Prologue: The End’ in which she visits her grandmother ...Read Review
The Mill Girls
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Tracey Johnson relates the true stories of four women who worked in the Lancashire mills from the 1930s to the 1970s. Doris, Audrey, ...Read Review
The Downstairs Maid
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The author’s biography says she “has penned over one hundred novels under different pseudonyms.” A little research reveals that Rosie Clarke is ...Read Review
My War Diary, 1914-1918
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of The Great War, this is a colour reproduction of the diary kept by Ethel Bilbrough ...Read Review
The Lost Duchess
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England, 1586: Queen Elizabeth and all England prepare to meet the Spanish Armada, which is intent on invasion. Not one ship can be spared ...Read Review
The Nine Day Queen
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This is much more the story of all three Grey sisters – Lady Jane, Lady Katherine and Lady Mary – than of the unfortunate Jane, ...Read Review
