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Publisher
Canongate Canons
Pub. Date
2024
Description
This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. In Springfield Road, Salena Godden evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher?s Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time...
2) The swimmers
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ... Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
They didn?t know - when Winter gave way to Spring that year - that their lives were all about to change? Marnie didn?t realise - when she stormed into a bookshop one day, demanding a self-help book - that she was about to make a new best friend. Bookshop-owner Rae didn?t know she had been living like a shadow since her parents died. But then Marnie exploded into her life. And suddenly she realised things had to change? more so when she meets handsome...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2024
Description
The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na ng Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Love, second chances and new beginnings? When Kim Reynolds learns how unhappy her daughter is, she realises the perfect remedy is a completely fresh start. Giving up the corporate job she?s worked towards her entire life, Kim is determined to make Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast a success, but more importantly, she?s determined to support her daughter Mia as she settles into her new life. But when Danny, Kim?s childhood sweetheart, turns up, buried feelings...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it?s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long? From the bombed-out...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A holiday dreams are made of... Newly single on the day she turns thirty, Freya Johnson boards a last-minute flight to Corfu. Little does she know this holiday will change her life forever. Enter Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden, whose entourage is stirring up the village of Kassiopi while he films his new movie. He?s hot, he?s unexpectedly down-to-earth, but is he for real? Throwing caution to the wind, Freya lets herself get caught up in this...
10) Behind the guns
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Series
Army Girls volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order the next instalment in the BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls! September 1942 Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn't looking for...
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Series
Pilot's Girl volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order in the next instalment in the Pilot's Girl series from bestselling author Fenella J Miller March 1941 Recently married, Barbara should now be enjoying her life as a newlywed, but she is plagued by a secret that she must keep hidden if she wants to keep the family she loves. But no one can keep a secret forever. Barbara knows that if her new husband Alex, a Spitfire pilot, discovers her secret he would surely reject her and their marriage...
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Royal Station Master's Daughters volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A moving and dramatic World War I historical fiction saga of family, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. Norfolk, 1919 The war is over, but the effects of it are ever-present in the village of Wolferton. At just two miles from Sandringham House, the private residence of British monarchs, the people of Wolferton have a special connection to the royals - particularly the family of the royal station master,...
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Dog and Duck volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Ellie Browne has found happiness running the Dog & Duck pub in the idyllic village of Little Leyton. Her blossoming romance with handsome property developer Max Golding is going swimmingly, and with her new best friend, Digby the black Labrador, at her side, life couldn't be sweeter. But their peace is shattered when Max's younger sister, Katy, turns up unannounced with a whole heap of attitude. And Max's loyalties are stretched further when his glamorous...
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Series
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Take a stroll down Serendipity Lane, breathe in the beautiful fragrances of the flowers and see if you can spot the love in the air? After years of juggling long hours at work, studying for her dream vocation and struggling for money, Sadie realises it?s finally time for change. Following her dream to become a florist, Sadie Locke moves her two daughters, Lily and Poppy, into The Flower Shop on Serendipity Lane. But on discovering that her ex-husband?s...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
If you enjoyed the Pilot's Girl series, don't miss The Pilot's Story of bravery and courage. Missing, presumed dead? For Squadron Leader Alex Everton dogfights in his Spitfire have become his way of life. He knows every time he goes up in the air, he might not make it home again, but he?ll keep fighting anyway. The boys in blue seem to be winning the Battle of Britain, but during a raid over Dieppe the Luftwaffe gain the upper hand and Alex?s spitfire...
18) The nurse's war
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Series
Victoria's War volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A gripping story from bestselling author, Fenella J. Miller. For King, for country...for love? Victoria Bahani, the privileged seventeen-year-old, daughter of the Rajah of Marpur and an English woman, has always believed she would marry an Englishman. And when she meets Captain Henry Hindley-Jones she knows he?s exactly the kind of man she?s been thinking of. But when war breaks out everything changes for Victoria. With Henry away fighting, Victoria...
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Series
Army Girls volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-Order the next story in a BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls! June 1942 Grace Sinclair never meant to sign up to the ATS, but when her parents made it clear she had to marry a man she hated, Grace ran away to the safety of the army. But with her cut-glass accent and upper-class ways, Grace finds it hard to fit in with the other girls and begins to think she has made a terrible mistake? Things get worse...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Can love blossom in times of trouble? Life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate are following in the footsteps of their families, working at the Clarks shoe factory. But when Britain declares war on Germany, the Somerset village of Street is shaken to its core. The Clarks factory is at the heart of life in the village, but the Clark family are Quakers and pacifists. Before long, there are fierce debates amongst the workers and tensions between those...