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We’ll Meet Again: The Bluebird Girls 2
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1941. Three young ladies fresh from the school choir form ‘The Bluebirds’ singing group during the height of Hitler’s bombing campaign. We follow ...Read Review
Now You See Them
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This crime novel unites characters from earlier books in Griffiths’ Brighton Mysteries series, but can satisfyingly be read as a standalone. It is 1963. ...Read Review
The Workhouse Waif
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1867, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. This crisis-to-comfort tale concerns young Megan Hopkins, the eponymous waif, whose mother and younger siblings are split up within the ...Read Review
The Matchgirl
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It is 1888, and sixteen-year-old Lottie Perkins works for Bryant & May match manufacturers in London’s East End, where she catches the eye ...Read Review
The Foundling School for Girls
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Set in the mid-1800s in the hills above Newcastle, this novel depicts two very different characters. Ruth Dixon, deserted by her mother ...Read Review
A Step So Grave (A Dandy Gilver Mystery)
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Aristocratic, amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver and her family travel to remote Applecross in the Scottish Highlands to meet Mallory, her son’s betrothed ...Read Review
Orphan Boy (The Deerness Series)
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The second in the Deerness series, set in north-east England at the end of the 19th century. The eponymous orphan is Niall McAndrew, ...Read Review
The Bear Pit
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S.G. MacLean’s latest addition to the Captain Damien Seeker series sees our grumpy, reluctant hero investigate the death of a man ...Read Review
The Bluebird Girls
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Hampshire 1939. World War II has started, and three young girls are about to have their worlds turned upside-down. Rainey and her mother are ...Read Review
Finding Dorothy
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It’s hard to imagine a more essentially American life than Maud Gage Baum’s. The wife of the author of the beloved ...Read Review