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Julie Parker

The Coal Miner’s Daughter

By Maggie Hope - Published (c1994)Published 2017

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This novel was first published in 1994 as Come the Day and is set in the 1910s and 1920s. It begins in the coalmining ...Read Review

Penhaligon’s Attic

By Terri Nixon - Published 2016

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Romance Saga

This novel is an historical romance set in the fishing village of Caernoweth in Cornwall. The main Cornish characters are fisherman Matthew Penhaligon, ...Read Review

The Farmer’s Daughter

By Mary Nichols - Published 2016

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Set in June 1944 in an East Anglian farming community, this novel describes the struggles of Jean to keep the family farm going after ...Read Review

Songs of Spring

By Amy Myers - Published 2016 Published c2000

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Saga

Reprinted in paperback from its original publication in 2000, Songs of Spring is the final volume in the Seasons of War quartet. The time ...Read Review

Halfpenny Dreams

By Frances Brody - Published 2016

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Saga

I began this novel thinking that it was going to be a typical romantic saga, but there are several incidents, some poignant and ...Read Review

Winter Roses

By Amy Myers - Published 2016

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Saga

This is the third in a series of four novels about a Sussex family and their neighbours during World War One.The family ...Read Review

Operation Goodwood: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery

By Sara Sheridan - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Mirabelle Bevan, head of a debt-collecting agency in 1950s Brighton, enjoys a day out to see motor racing at Goodwood with Superintendent McGregor. ...Read Review

Tread Softly Alice

By Jessica Blair - Published 2016

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Mrs Emma Cheevey is the surprised beneficiary of her aunt’s will, leaving her a fortune and a partly derelict house, which she ...Read Review

Smoke and Mirrors: A Stephens and Mephisto Mystery

By Elly Griffiths - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

In this novel Detective Inspector Stephens and magician, Max Mephisto, who previously appeared in Elly Griffith’s novel The Zigzag Girl, become involved ...Read Review

The Scarlet Sisters: My Nanna’s Story of Secrets and Heartache on the Banks of the River Thames

By Helen Batten - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

The author paints a touching picture in this memoir beginning with the first chapter ‘Prologue: The End’ in which she visits her grandmother ...Read Review