Julie Parker
A Sister’s Bond
This book starts off with a bang and launches the reader into its world as violent father, Tommy Bone, attempts…
The Deserter’s Daughter
This is a debut novel set in Chorlton, Manchester in the years after The Great War. It is a gripping…
Red Sky at Noon
The author is a well-known historian who has previously written factual works about Stalin and Catherine the Great. This is…
The Last Son’s Secret
This is an international bestseller first published in 2015 and the first of the author’s works to be translated into…
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…
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