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The Last Goodbye

By Margaret Pemberton - Published 2007

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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

Turn Left at the Daffodils

By Elizabeth Elgin - Published 2006

Genres:

Military Romance

This novel set during the Second World War is the last one to have been written by Elizabeth Elgin before her death in 2005. ...Read Review

A Whisper of Life

By Gloria Cook - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

Hennaford, a Cornish village, is the setting for the sixth book in the Harvey series. It is 1948 and Jonny Harvey, relegated to training ...Read Review

The True Darcy Spirit

By Elizabeth Aston - Published 2006 Published 2007

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Literary Romance

Cassandra Darcy is disgraced, penniless and an outcast from her family. She is determined to earn her living in Regency London by using ...Read Review

Ghost of a Chance: A Marjorie McClelland Mystery

By Amy Patricia Meade - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Marjorie McClelland, the mystery writer, her fiancé police detective, Robert Jameson, and Creighton Ashcroft, her wealthy English editor, are all at the 1935 carnival ...Read Review

Pryde’s Rock

By Malcolm Archibald - Published 2007

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Adventure Mystery/Crime Romance

Mathew Pryde, a young engineer, is the central character in this novel of adventure, romance and mystery. The story is set in Northumberland, ...Read Review

Sand In My Shoes: War-time Diaries of a WAAF

By Joan Rice - Published 2006

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Nonfiction

Joan Rice’s diary covers the years from September 1939 to December 1942. She came from a middle-class family, attended secretarial college and then worked ...Read Review

Sixpence In Her Shoe

By Frances McNeil - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

This novel opens in working class Leeds in the 1920s. Jessica Price, the central character, comes from a Catholic family whose father makes ...Read Review

Camelot’s Sword

By Sarah Zettel -

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Historical Fantasy Romance

This romantic fantasy is set around Tintagel in Arthurian Cornwall. Lynet Carnbrea finds herself trying to restore calm to her father’s ...Read Review