Elizabeth Hawksley
The Railway Girls in Love
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February 1939. War is looming, but Mabel and her best friend Althea are thinking about parties, not war. For Mabel, the agonies of being ...Read Review
The Serpents of Harbledown
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England, 1086. In the author’s fifth Domesday adventure, we follow Ralph Delchard, a Norman soldier, and Gervase Bret, a talented lawyer, who work ...Read Review
The Wolves of Savernake
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In 1086, William the Conqueror set out to record every acre, every item, and who owned what in his new conquest, England. Inevitably, there ...Read Review
The Exiles
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1840. Exiles opens with Mathinna, an aboriginal child, who has been taken in by the Governor of Australia’s wife as a ‘curiosity’; how ...Read Review
Margaret Llewelyn Davies: With Women for a New World
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Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944) was an inspirational campaigner for women’s causes who, as general secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild for 32 ...Read Review
The Last Greek (Commander)
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210 BCE. The Achaean League, an alliance of Greek City States originally founded for mutual protection against encircling Spartans, Macedons and Romans, is fragmenting. ...Read Review
The Girl Who Came From Rags
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Leeds, 1869. This book, the third in the series, follows the fortunes of Eliza Wild, once a half-starved child from a mining family, and ...Read Review
A Christmas Gift
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Liverpool, 1939, and Britain is now at war with Germany. 16-year-old Lizzy Atherton is desperate to get herself and her vulnerable mother away from ...Read Review
The Unseen Hand (Home Front Detective)
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London 1917. In this, the eighth in Marston’s Home Front Detective series, Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy find themselves saddled with an unusual ...Read Review
Workhouse Nightingale
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1850s. Dora Latimer, an illegitimate, mixed-race girl, is brought to England by her sea-captain father and brought up with his other children, to ...Read Review