Robert Hale
The Lambs
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Dublin, September 1914. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Flynn hates his job, which he finds dull and boring. Along with a group of his friends, and desperate ...Read Review
Divided Loyalty
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Cecelia is a young woman in wartime England who lives on a farm and works in an office in the nearby town. Her ...Read Review
Autumn Softly Fell
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Although very different, this book is obviously inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, with an abandoned heroine of eight becoming ...Read Review
Operation Kingfisher
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Operation Kingfisher was an escape line organised by the French Resistance in WW2 to smuggle downed Allied airmen to Spain via the French ...Read Review
To Dream Again
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With a bright, noisy start on Liverpool Street station in London at the start of WW2, we see the bustling crowds as Judy ...Read Review
Homeland
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I have always enjoyed E.V.Thompson’s books, and this one did not disappoint. The story starts in 1817 just as the Scottish ...Read Review
The Toll of the Sea
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Joby Lancer is the only survivor from the terrible shipwreck which claims the lives of over 400 men, women and children, but what or ...Read Review
Running Against the Tide
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It is 1800, and Ginny Marcombe is the son her father, Josiah, never had. She works with him in his shipping firm in the ...Read Review
Poacher’s Moon
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This is a fine Victorian novel with action, intrigue, big houses and hardworking Yorkshire folk. It starts predictably with a brutal landlord and ...Read Review
A Crown of Despair
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I was rather surprised to find myself enjoying this novel, as it is written in the first-person present tense, with multiple viewpoints – three ...Read Review
