Hodder & Stoughton
Rose Alley
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Audrey Howard’s new book is classic Victorian melodrama. From the foetid Liverpool slum of the title, Queenie Logan and her improbably named ...Read Review
Never Say Goodbye
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Diana Escott-Stevens, known as Steve, has worked for twelve months preparing agents for missions in France. Then Steve herself applies to join the ...Read Review
Fools Fall In Love
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The story unfolds in Champion Street Market in Manchester, 1956. Patsy Bowman, hungry and looking for work, steals a hot pie from Molly Poulson’...Read Review
Brethren
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The narrative opens in 1260 and follows Will Campbell, a young man who has been brought up from boyhood in the Order of the ...Read Review
Star Of The North
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Marjorie, the second of the Preston sisters, is both pretty and whimsical. Unsuited to work in the mill or to heavy housework, she ...Read Review
Water for Elephants
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“’Gritty” is the word on the cover, but “nasty,” perhaps, is nearer the mark. Jacob Jankowski knew some nasty characters back in 1931. ...Read Review
The Gypsy Madonna
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During the occupation of France in the Second World War, “horizontal” collaboration with the German occupying forces resulted in ostracism for the women ...Read Review
Katherine
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This assignment is both an absolute joy and something of a challenge. Hodder have re-packaged Anya Seton’s classic under their ‘Hodder Great ...Read Review
Close Relations
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Although he is only the son of a humble lockkeeper, Algie Stokes dreams of starting his own business manufacturing bicycles. When he falls ...Read Review
A Woman of Cairo
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Set in Cairo in 1919-1953, this book paints a portrait of Egypt in the days when it was a British Protectorate—a colony ...Read Review
