Penguin
The Winter Palace
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This Winter Palace is not the famous residence of Russian Tsars, but rather a family mansion near Poznan, Poland, the home of Anton ...Read Review
Love Will Find a Way
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In the quiet town of Cliffehaven, a newborn infant mysteriously appears in the crib of the parish church in the lead-up to Christmas 1946. ...Read Review
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love (Love’s Academic)
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Professor Beth Pickering first set eyes on Professor Devon Lockley in Spain in 1890, whilst tracking the magical vibrations of the pileated deathwhistler. Beth ...Read Review
The Little Penguin Bookshop
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August 1939, and the unwelcome spectre of war descends again on Britain – a country that has barely recovered from the disasters of The Great ...Read Review
Christmas with the Engine Girls
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It is 1941 and the Blitz is raging; conscription for women is very much in the news in spite of The War Office dragging ...Read Review
The Story Collector
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There are three main narrative strands to this novel: a German baker, Katerina, in London’s East End in 1915 who develops a skill ...Read Review
The Palace Girls
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Back in the London Blitz of 1941, Millie Hendry, aged 11, loses both parents and is subsequently raised by firm-but-fair Aunt Edie, long-standing cleaner at ...Read Review
Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop (The Wartime Bookshop, 2)
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England 1941. Nothing lasts forever. The vicar’s demise prompts fears of a similar fate befalling the Churchwood village bookshop, due to the snobby, ...Read Review
The Chimney Sweep’s Sister
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Think anger management. Orphan Jenny (aged 16) has, in her own words, “a gob the size of a train tunnel”. Uncontrollable foul-mouthed rants and ...Read Review
The Golden Doves
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Building on the success of her Lilac Girls trilogy, Kelly’s The Golden Doves takes the reader into the turbulent decade following the ...Read Review