Julie Parker
The Coal Miner’s Daughter
This novel was first published in 1994 as Come the Day and is set in the 1910s and 1920s. It begins in…
Penhaligon’s Attic
This novel is an historical romance set in the fishing village of Caernoweth in Cornwall. The main Cornish characters are…
The Farmer’s Daughter
Set in June 1944 in an East Anglian farming community, this novel describes the struggles of Jean to keep the…
Songs of Spring
Reprinted in paperback from its original publication in 2000, Songs of Spring is the final volume in the Seasons of War quartet. The time…
Halfpenny Dreams
I began this novel thinking that it was going to be a typical romantic saga, but there are several incidents,…
Winter Roses
This is the third in a series of four novels about a Sussex family and their neighbours during World War…
Operation Goodwood: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery
Mirabelle Bevan, head of a debt-collecting agency in 1950s Brighton, enjoys a day out to see motor racing at Goodwood…
Tread Softly Alice
Mrs Emma Cheevey is the surprised beneficiary of her aunt’s will, leaving her a fortune and a partly derelict house,…
Smoke and Mirrors: A Stephens and Mephisto Mystery
In this novel Detective Inspector Stephens and magician, Max Mephisto, who previously appeared in Elly Griffith’s novel The Zigzag Girl,…
The Scarlet Sisters: My Nanna’s Story of Secrets and Heartache on the Banks of the River Thames
The author paints a touching picture in this memoir beginning with the first chapter ‘Prologue: The End’ in which she…
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