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The Coal Gatherer

By Janet Woods - Published 2007

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Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living on the north-east ...Read Review

Secret Sins

By Jeannie Johnson - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

In war-torn 1940s Bristol, England, Mary Anne’s pawnshop home is burnt down while her son and daughter are in the forces. She ...Read Review

The Last Goodbye

By Margaret Pemberton - Published 2007

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Romance

This novel is the sequel to A Time to Remember. It is a love story set during the Second World War in Hong ...Read Review

Long Shadows

By Rowena Summers - Published 2007

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Saga

Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends with the lives and ...Read Review

Blind Eye

By Marilyn Todd - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Is this the 14th tale about Marilyn Todd’s wonderfully bitchy and feisty detective Claudia? No, this is the first tale about her ...Read Review

Dark North

By Gillian Bradshaw - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Were there Africans in the Roman Army? The Historia Augusta describes an Ethiopian soldier presenting Emperor Septimius Severus with an omen of ...Read Review

The Muscovy Chain

By John Pilkington - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no forensic science and ...Read Review

Out Of Shadows

By Gloria Cook - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

This is the second novel in the Meryen series following Keeping Echoes. Intrigue, lust and passion run through this story set in the ...Read Review

Cruel Choices

By Charles O’Brien - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Paris in spring 1788 sees intrepid Anne Cartier and her husband Paul back home after their sojourn in Nice. The crops are failing, and ...Read Review

The Secret

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2007

Genres:

Military Romance Saga

Little touches of pure magic redeem this complex, end of World War Two family saga. The intertwining of characters’ aims and shared sufferings ...Read Review