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Details: In the autumn of
1942, fifteen year old
Ruby is collected from
her aunt's guesthouse by
her grandfather. She is
taken to live with him in
a village in industrial
Lancashire, where a few
days after her arrival,
a number of US
Quartermaster Truck
Companies of black troops
take over a nearby camp.
Bo, Con and Wes are
ready to help with the
war effort, but instead
are alienated and
mistrusted by their own
white sergeants, forcing
them to pass the days in
the village. Before long
tension rises between the
newly arrived troops and
the locals, many of whom
still have embedded
racial prejudices. As the
town becomes divided,
Ruby and her friends must
struggle with
adolescence, illicit
love, dangerous
friendships and the
difficultly of doing what
is right in a chaotic and
unfair world. Ideal for:
fans of contemporary and
romance fiction books.
This paperback book has
446 pages and measures:
19.7 x 12.9 x 2.8cm
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Fire Support Base
Matterhorn: a fortress
carved out of the
grey-green mountain
jungle. Cold monsoon
clouds wreath its
mile-high summit,
concealing a battery of
105-mm howitzers
surrounded by deep
bunkers, carefully
constructed fields of
fire and the 180 marines
of Bravo Company. Just
three kilometres from
Laos and two from North
Vietnam, there is no
more isolated outpost of
America's increasingly
desperate war in Vietnam.
Second Lieutenant Waino
Mellas, 21 years old and
just a few days into his
13-month tour, has
barely arrived at
Matterhorn before Bravo
Company is ordered to
abandon their mountain
and sent deep in-country
in pursuit of a North
Vietnamese Army unit of
unknown size. Beyond the
relative safety of the
perimeter wire, Mellas
will face disease,
starvation, leeches,
tigers and an almost
invisible enemy. Beneath
the endless jungle
canopy, Bravo Company
will confront competing
ambitions, duplicitous
officers and simmering
racial tensions. Behind
them, always,
Matterhorn. The
impregnable mountain
fortress they built and
then abandoned, without
a shot, to the North
Vietnamese Army
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Details: Lizzie is
finding that life in the
Birmingham blitz is hard.
Her husband is away
fighting in the Second
World War and she has
regretfully sent her two
young children away to
her parents in Galway,
knowing that they will be
safe there. She's
grateful for her job in
munitions but not so
happy when that means
getting home in the
blackout, dodging the
bomb damage. Then Lizzie
is attacked on one such
journey. She comes around
battered and bruised,
unable to remember the
full extent of the attack
- but she fears the
worst, and is right to.
Turning to her family in
desperation, she is told
she has brought them
nothing but disgrace. Yet
help is at hand, from
the most unlikely
place... Ideal for: Fans
of historical and
contemporary fiction
books. This paperback
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measures: 17.7 x 11 x 4cm
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Former SAS Warrant
Officer Joe Gardner has
fought the Regiment's
deadliest enemies, in
some of the most desolate
places on earth. And he's
always won. Now he's
about to face his
toughest challenge yet.
After losing his hand
whilst on a covert
operation in Afghanistan,
Gardner is forced to
stand down from active
duty. Now he lives off
the grid. But trouble
finds him in the shape of
a phone call from an old
friend. Ex-Regiment
legend John Bald is
trapped in a
bullet-ridden favela in
Rio de Janeiro and a
violent gang is out to
kill him. Unless Gardner
helps, Bald is a dead
man. What begins as a
simple rescue mission
soon descends into a
desperate struggle for
survival as Gardner finds
himself caught up in a
conceit that stretches
from the slums of Brazil
to the frozen steppes of
Siberia. Stalked by
elusive MI6 agents and
ruthless ex-Blades,
Gardner must draw on all
his training and
instincts to hunt down
the hardest target of all
- before disaster
strikes...
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It is April 1939 and
unaware that the German
war machine is advancing
towards the Channel
Islands,
seventeen-year-old Meg
Colivet and her sister
are enjoying a holiday in
Oxford with their aunt.
Here Meg meets
charismatic German
undergraduate Rayner
Weiss and the couple fall
passionately in love. But
all too soon, Britain is
at war with Germany,
Guernsey has been
occupied and Meg's family
home requisitioned by the
German army. Meg insists
on remaining with her
father, determined to
help save her beloved
island from the ravages
of war. And then she
finds herself face to
face with Rayner - now a
German officer - once
more and her life is
thrown into turmoil as
they risk their lives to
meet in secret. As the
conflict in Europe
intensifies, basic
provisions become scarce
and soon the people Meg
loves come under threat.
Torn between her love for
Rayner and her duty to
her family and the island
she grew up on, a
heartbroken Meg has a
terrible choice to
make...
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A compelling novel of
complicated love, from
one of Ireland's greatest
living writers. It is the
Second World War, and
tragedy strikes many
families in Ireland. But
it is also a thrilling
time in which to be a
child and Polly,
spending months at her
grandparents' house by
the sea, barely notices
the adults grief and
their efforts to escape
the tyranny of religion
and family expectation.
However, in time Polly
too will have a secret.
No one else knows the
location of her beloved
uncle, Sam, barely
older than Polly herself,
who is meant to be in
Cambridge but is dreaming
of Communist Cuba, while
his decimated family
fears losing another son.
And, as Polly shyly
approaches womanhood,
her love for Sam turns
into something more
explosive.
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England is close to war.
Within days the axe could
fall on the neck of Mary
Queen of Scots, and
Spain is already
gathering a battle fleet
to avenge her. Tensions
in Elizabeth I's
government are at
breaking point. At the
eye of the storm is John
Shakespeare, chief
intelligencer in the
secret service of Sir
Francis Walsingham. When
an intercept reveals a
plot to assassinate
England's 'sea dragon',
Francis Drake,
Shakespeare is ordered to
protect him. With Drake
on land fitting out his
ships, he is
frighteningly vulnerable.
If he dies, England will
be open to invasion. In a
London rife with rumour,
Shakespeare must decide
which leads to follow,
which to ignore. When a
high-born young woman is
found mutilated and
murdered at an illicit
printing house, it is
political gunpowder - and
he has no option but to
investigate. But why is
Shakespeare shadowed at
every turn by the brutal
Richard Topcliffe, the
blood-drenched
priest-hunter who claims
intimacy with Queen
Elizabeth herself? What
is Topcliffe's interest
in a housemaid, whose
baby has been stolen? And
where do two fugitive
Jesuit priests fit into
the puzzle, one happy to
die for God, the other
to kill for Him? From the
splendour and intrigue of
the royal court, to the
sleek warships of Her
Majesty's Navy and the
teeming brothels of
Southwark, Shakespeare
soon learns that nothing
is as it seems.
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FROM THE RUINS, A HERO
WILL RISE. Condemned as a
murderer for killing the
man who dishonored his
sister, Blaine McFadden
has been banished for
years to a penal colony
in the frigid northern
wastelands of Edgeland.
Military discipline and
the oppressive magic of
the governor's mages keep
a fragile peace, as
colonists struggle to
survive in the harshest
of conditions. But now
the supply ships have
stopped coming, and this
bodes ill for the kingdom
that banished the
colonists. McFadden and
the other exiles must
decide their fate. They
can remain in their icy
prison, or they can
return to the ruins of
the kingdom that they
once called home. Either
way, destruction lies
ahead
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Hidden in the world's
greatest desert a tiny
caravan of fugitives
inches towards its goal.
It is a place where only
the strongest and most
determined will survive.
In the caravan one man
stands out. His strength,
self-imposed discipline
and leadership mark him.
He is an Outsider whose
past is blanked from his
memory. And his loyalty
to the leadership is
total. Searching for him
in the limitless dunes
are American and British
experts in
counter-terrorism with a
full range of
sophisticated electronics
at hand. Hunting him from
above is the unmanned
Predator aircraft,
invisible in the
cloudless skies,
carrying the Hellfire
missiles. But he is no
easy prey. If they fail
to find and kill him, if
he reaches his family and
receives his orders, the
Outsider will disappear
again, before
re-emerging in a teeming
western city with a
suitcase that will wreak
mass murder when it is
detonated...
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1920. Having disobeyed
the wishes of her
aristocratic family,
Lulu Pearson, a young
and talented Tasmanian
sculptress, finds
herself alone in London
in the wake of the Great
War. The future is
looking bright until, on
the eve of her first
exhibition, Lulu learns
she has inherited a
racing colt called Ocean
Child from a mysterious
benefactor, and she must
return to her homeland to
claim him. Baffled by the
news, Lulu boards a ship
to Tasmania to uncover
the truth behind the
strange bequest, but it
seems a welcome return is
more than she can hope
for. Unbeknownst to Lulu,
more than a few fortunes
ride on Ocean Child's
success - it seems
everyone from her
estranged mother to the
stable hands has a part
to play, and an interest
in keeping the family
secrets buried.
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After a surveillance
mission in Sevastopol
goes badly wrong,
Stratton finds himself
doing penance at MI16,
the government's
clandestine organisation
that creates weapons
equipment for special
forces and the secret
service. But Sevastopol
has started something. In
the North Sea a team of
hijackers take over the
giant Morpheus oil
platform. They are
demanding two billion
dollars. Inside
twenty-four hours. Or the
bodies will start
falling. With the SBS
overstretched and its
surveillance team locked
down, there is only one
option: Stratton and a
team of unproven
operatives from MI16.
Stratton knows he has to
redeem himself and he
also has his own agenda.
One of the men on the rig
is an old friend. And
Stratton intends to save
him. But one of
Stratton's team is not
what they appear to be. A
traitor. With a deadly
agenda of their own. And
Morpheus is just the
beginning. This is the
incendiary sixth thriller
in the Stratton series by
the UK's leading ex-SF
professional.
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Like so many other men,
Jim Hickman and Bertie
Murphy are plunged into
this nightmare and
unbeknownst to them, a
terrible tragedy is
looming As the war
progresses, Jim receives
honor after honor,
whilst Bertie sinks deep
into depression. And back
home Poppy, the girl
they both love, must
choose between the two
men that is, if they
ever come back alive. As
the trio is trapped in
physical and mental
torment, a terrible
tragedy befalls them
Wilcox draws upon a
fascinating family
history. His father and
six uncles all fought in
and survived the trenches
of WWI, garnering a
Victoria Cross among
other decorations during
the conflict.
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Jessica Harts happy
childhood as the daughter
of a country blacksmith
is changed forever by the
sudden death of her
mother. Her
grief-stricken father
leaves her to cope with
her loss alone. It is her
manipulative new
stepmother who tries to
force her into marrying
an older man. To bright,
pretty Jess the idea of a
loveless marriage is
unthinkable and so she
escapes to Birmingham to
her aunt Olive ? the last
remaining connection to
her mother. But it soon
becomes apparent that in
the shadows of
Olives family there
are haunting secrets of
which no one will speak.
And Jesss security
is threatened when she
falls passionately in
love. For handsome Ned
Green is not only already
married, but also about
to become a father. Annie
Murrays uplifting
saga set during the Great
War is a moving story of
love, remembrance and
ultimate healing.
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Beautiful, dark-haired
Lily has been abandoned
in a Birmingham slum as a
tiny child. With few
clues as to her identity
she endures a childhood
of loneliness and loss.
At eighteen she applies
for a post as nanny with
the family of a Captain
Fairford, a soldier in
Ambala, north India and
his highly strung wife
Susan. Lily is drawn into
the emotional life of the
Fairford family and
adores her charge, two
year old Cosmo. When, in
1907, Captain Fairford
orders a new Daimler car,
it is brought out by a
young motor mechanic,
Sam Ironside. Sam and
Lily fall deeply in love,
and it is only later
that Lily learns that Sam
is married and feels
utterly betrayed. When
Cosmo is later sent home
to school, Lily finds
another post with a Dr.
McBride and his invalid
wife, in a beautiful
Himalayan hill station.
The place is idyllic,
and Lily settles for a
quiet life. However, she
is unprepared for the
pain and
misunderstandings that
follow and force her to
run from everything she
has known... Where Earth
Meets Sky takes us from
Edwardian England and the
British Raj, through the
darkness of the Great War
to the glamour of
Brooklands Race Track in
the 1920s. Spanning two
continents, it is a
story of enduring
friendships and two
hearts which cannot be
kept apart.
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Molly Fox has grown up in
the back streets of
Birmingham at the mercy
of her cruel grandfather
and her drunken mother.
Though she has grown into
a tall, beautiful woman,
Molly is haunted by
terrible family secrets.
When she is found lying
drunk in a gutter, Molly
reaches a turning point.
She decides to escape by
joining the army as an
ATS girl. At first her
new start seems fated to
be a disaster but the
army gives her the
encouragement she hungers
for and soon her life is
flourishing. But war
brings tragedy as well as
triumph, and when Molly
receives news from home,
it becomes clear that she
can?t escape her past so
easily.
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Surprise will be total.
It will show the world
what we can do. You will
do it for Germany!' The
crack German heavy
cruiser Prinz Luitpold
had always been lucky in
battle. To the
beleaguered army on the
Baltic coast she was
their one remaining
symbol of hope. But it is
the summer of 1944, and
on every front the war is
going badly for Germany.
When the roder comes to
leave the Baltic to
attack and destroy eenmy
shipping in the Atlantic,
Kapitan zur See Dieter
Hechler knows that once
out in the vast killing
ground it will only be a
matter of time before the
hunter becomes the
hunted. The Prinz will
need all of her legendary
luck to survive. As he
faces the challenges of
his enormous task,
Hechler's problems
increase when a ruthless,
glory-seeking admiral
arrives on board with
some mysterious boxes, a
floatplane and a
beautiful girl pilot...
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Polish war exile Julia
Smollen has escaped the
horrors of a Nazi labour
camp to forge a new life
in California with her
daughter, Tasha. Sent to
the best school her
mother can afford,
growing up through the
Cold War and the Space
Race and coming into
contact with the aspiring
young Democrat, Jack
Kennedy, Tasha is
precocious, wilful and
politically engaged. As
intensely close as Tasha
and her mother are,
however, she remains
unaware of the true
identity of her father,
the courageous German
officer Martin Hamer,
who was fatally wounded
helping the then-pregnant
Julia flee her occupied
homeland. But Julia
cannot keep the truth
hidden from her daughter
forever. A sinister
figure from the past is
about to emerge, with
his own dark, vengeful
agenda.
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It is 1945 and the war is
finally over. For sisters
Sophie and Maria,
though, the upheaval is
just beginning. For they
have no choice but to
leave their beloved home
on the Isle of Man. It is
a huge wrench for
eighteen-year-old Maria,
who can't forget Hans
Bonhoeffer, a young
Austrian, interned on
the island during the
war. For widowed Sophie,
Liverpool offers a new
beginning with her
daughter Bella. She has
no room for distractions
- until she falls in love
with Frank Ryan, a man
married to a woman who,
although she doesn't love
him, has no intention of
letting him go. Without
the men they love, will
the sisters ever find
happiness?
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Details: Lest we forget?
A poignant new tale from
the English Maeve Binchy.
As a new millennium
dawns, 100-year-old
Selma Bartley alone knows
the secret behind a
Yorkshire village's
refusal to honour its war
dead. One summer's day in
1913, a brush with
tragedy irrevocably binds
the fates of two families
forever. A year later,
and West Sharland sends
its men off to fight,
leaving blacksmith's
daughter Selma Bartley to
manage the family
business - and her
blossoming feelings for
aristocrat Guy Cantrell.
Their friendship tests
social convention - but
will also have
unimaginable consequences
before the War is over.
When Guy is wounded in
battle, his identical
twin Angus - desperate
for battlefield action
but medically unfit -
takes his place,
unbeknownst to his
brother. But, bitterly
unprepared for war,
Angus's actions result in
catastrophe for the
Bartley family, hundreds
of miles away in West
Sharland. Overnight, the
village turns against the
Bartleys and urged on by
her distraught parents,
Selma is forced to make a
new life in America.
Deeply ashamed at his
brother's actions, Guy
adopts a new identity,
eventually arriving in
Pennsylvania where he
finds the peace that has
previously eluded him.
But years later, with
war again on the horizon,
secrets are resurrected,
reuniting Selma and Guy
- and the names of the
dead must be uttered once
more? A mesmerising tale
about how a landmark
moment in history
affected the lives of so
many, guaranteed to
capture the heart of all
those who loved The
Island and The House at
Riverton. Ideal for: Fans
of contemporary and
historical fiction books.
This paperback book has
456 pages and measures:
17.7 x 11 x 3cm
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Artem Samsurov, a
prot?g? of Lenin, makes
an extraordinary escape
from Tsarist Russia to
reach sanctuary in
Australia, but soon
discovers that repression
and injustice exist there
too. Though distracted by
an infatuation with a
beautiful female lawyer,
he throws himself back
into the socialist cause,
only to be imprisoned,
then accused of murdering
an informer. But he never
loses his belief that the
revolution will come -
and in 1917, he returns
to Russia alongside an
Australian journalist to
fight for it. Based on a
true story, Keneally's
enthralling novel takes
us to the heart of the
Russian Revolution
through the dramatic
exploits of one inspiring
man. Once again, he
illuminates a seismic
period of history from an
intimate, unusual
perspective as he
captures the ideals and
passions behind a
movement that changed the
world.
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Marcus Valerius Aquila
has scarcely landed in
Britannia when he has to
run for his life -
condemned to dishonorable
death by power-crazed
emperor Commodus. The
plan is to take a new
name, serve in an
obscure regiment on
Hadrian's Wall and lie
low until he can hope for
justice. Then a rebel
army sweeps down from the
wastes north of the Wall,
and Marcus has to prove
he's hard enough to lead
a century in the front
line of a brutal,
violent war. 'A damn fine
read fast-paced,
action-packed.' Ben Kane
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Three girls all turn
up for work, the day war
is declared...
Dotty has never
known
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When the formidable
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog'
Drummond places an advert
in the paper, hungry for
adventure following the
First World War, he
embarks on a career as
the invincible
protectorate of his
country. His first reply
comes from a beautiful
young woman, who sends
him racing off to
investigate what at first
looks like blackmail but
turns out to be far more
complicated and
dangerous. The rescue of
a kidnapped millionaire,
later found with his
thumbs horribly mangled,
leads Drummond to the
discovery of a political
conspiracy of awesome
scope and villainy,
masterminded by the
ruthless Carl Peterson.
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Rose Beechworth is
mistress of a charming
country house - her own,
left to her by her
wealthy father. In the
summer of 1914, she is
not even looking for
love. Alice Weatherly
turns Rose's world upside
down. The loveable young
heiress longs to kiss
Captain Charlie Summers
goodbye - she takes Rose
to Liverpool's Lime
Street station and into
the heart of Charlie's
brother Harry. Even
though they are
neighbours, they have
never met, for Rose
ignores the social round,
while Harry's time is
taken up desperately
attempting to keep his
father's ramshackle
estate together. When he
inherits Summer Place, a
magnificent mansion with
a proud history, he
gladly lets it become a
hospital for wounded
soldiers. As the war
takes its terrible toll
and Charlie disappears
into the fog of battle,
Alice - the spoilt
runaway heiress - becomes
a heroine, while Rose
finds herself running two
great houses. It seems
impossible that any of
them can ever find
happiness again.
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Their love crossed the
class divide, but will
it survive the ravages of
war? When Lucy's father
dies and her family is
plunged into poverty,
she is forced to take a
job in service as a
housemaid at Windthorpe
House, home to the
aristocratic
Hetherington's, who lost
three of their four sons
in the Great War. When
their only remaining son,
Clive, returns home
from university, he and
Lucy strike up an
immediate bond, which
only deepens as Lucy
becomes indispensable to
the family. Clive
however, much to his
family's consternation,
decides to volunteer to
fight against the
Fascists in the Spanish
Civil War, though he
returns injured and full
of rage at the hated
regime. As Lucy tends his
wounds, the two fall in
love and Clive is
determined that the class
difference won't keep
them apart. But Hitler's
troops are gathering and
fate has something very
different in store for
both of them...
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It is 1940 and Britain is
at war with Germany. In
London,
eighteen-year-old Susan
Banks longs to do her
duty. Her secret ambition
is to learn to fly - to
serve her country and
realise her dream. But
she knows it is out of
the question for a girl
like her; a foundling,
unwanted and unloved and
dependent on strangers
for her welfare. Just as
she fears she will be
trapped forever in a life
of servitude and
loneliness, she meets
Tony Richards, a flying
instructor based in
Hampshire. And when she
is forced to flee London,
she heads out into the
country. She is taken in
by the kindly landlord of
the local inn and his
daughter. As Susan works
hard to earn her keep,
and her friendship with
Tony - now recalled to
duty - blossoms into
love, she dares to hope
that things are at last
looking up for her. But
then she receives
devastating news - Tony
is missing in action. And
Susan wonders if she'll
ever see the man she
loves again and realise
her dream of becoming a
Spitfire girl...
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Spring, 1971, East
Pakistan. Rehana Haque is
throwing a party for her
beloved children, Sohail
and Maya. Her young
family is growing up
fast, and Rehana wants
to remember this day
forever. But out on the
hot city streets,
something violent is
brewing. As the civil war
develops, a war which
will eventually see the
birth of Bangladesh,
Rehana struggles to keep
her children safe and
finds herself facing a
heartbreaking dilemma.
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The Battle of the Lost
Eagle saved Hadrian's
Wall, but the new Roman
governor of Britannia
must stamp out the
rebellion of the northern
tribes or risk losing the
province. Rampaging south
with sword and flame
under the command of
their murderous chieftain
Calgus, they have
stretched his forces to
the limit. For Marcus -
now simply Centurion
Corvus of the 1st
Tungrian cohort - the
campaign has become
doubly dangerous. As
reinforcements flood into
Britannia he is
surrounded by new
officers with no reason
to protect him from the
emperor's henchmen. Death
could result from a
careless word as easily
as from an enemy spear
Worse, one of them is
close on his heels. While
Marcus is training two
centuries of Syrian
archers to survive a
barbarian charge and then
take the fight back to
their enemy, the new
prefect of the 2nd
Tungrians has discovered
his secret. Only a
miracle can save Marcus
and the men who protect
him from disgrace and
death... Anthony Riches
once again brings
meticulous research
together with brilliant
storytelling to capture
the authentic feel of
what life was like for
the Roman Army in a
brutal war with a
remorseless enemy.
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The Great Reawakening did
not come quietly.
Suddenly people from all
corners of the globe
began to develop
terrifying powers -
summoning fire,
manipulating earth,
opening portals and
decimating flesh.
Overnight the rules had
changed... but not for
everyone. Alan Bookbinder
might be a Colonel in the
US Army, but in his
heart he knows he's just
a desk jockey, a clerk
with a silver eagle on
his jacket. But one
morning he is woken by a
terrible nightmare and
overcome by an ominous
drowning sensation.
Something is very, very
wrong. Forced into
working for the
Supernatural Operations
Corps in a new and
dangerous world,
Bookbinder's only hope of
finding a way back to his
family will mean teaming
up with former SOC
operator and public enemy
number one: Oscar
Britton. They will have
to put everything on the
line if they are to save
thousands of soldiers
trapped inside a frontier
fortress on the brink of
destruction, and show
the people back home the
stark realities of a war
that threatens to wipe
out everything they're
trying to protect.
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Stateless and destitute
after the Second World
War, Magda Janek settles
in the Welsh town of
Pontypridd, in the hope
of building a new life
for herself and her baby
daughter, Helena. All
Magda has to give Helena
are the ambitions she had
once cherished for
herself; dreams cruelly
snatched from her by the
war and its terrible
aftermath. But 1960s
Pontypridd is a place of
opportunity - at
twenty-one, Magda's
daughter has beauty,
confidence and prospects
beyond even her mother's
wildest imaginings. With
a university degree
behind her, a coveted
teaching post in her old
Grammar school, and
marriage to the love of
her life, Dr Eddie John,
the son of an old
Pontypridd family to look
forward to, Helena
couldn't have been
happier. Until tragedy
strikes. A tragedy that
robs Helena of the only
family she has ever known
and everything she has
ever believed in; Helena
uncovers a bitter secret,
so explosive that her
mother carried it to the
grave.
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Flight Lieutenant Silk,
a twice-decorated
Lancaster pilot in WW II,
rejoins the R.A.F. and
qualifies to fly the
Vulcan bomber. Piloting a
Vulcan is an
unforgettable experience:
no other aircraft comes
close to matching its
all-round performance.
And as bombers go, it's
drop-dead gorgeous. But
there's a catch. The
Vulcan has only one role:
to make a second strike.
To act in retaliation for
a Russian nuclear attack.
Silk knows that knows
that if he ever flies his
Vulcan in anger, he'll
be flying from a smoking
wasteland, a Britain
obliterated. But in the
mad world of Mutually
Assured Destruction, the
Vulcan is the last - the
only - deterrent. Derek
Robinson returns with
another rip-roaring,
gung-ho R.A.F. adventure,
one that exposes and
confronts the
brinkmanship and
sabre-rattling of the
Cold War Era.
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For Josie Flynn the war
was just the start of a
journey that began in
heartbreak when she was
sent to live with her
aunt and uncle. Life took
her to Barefoot House as
the paid companion of an
elderly woman; and seemed
to promise lifelong
happiness in New York
with the handsome,
charismatic Jack
Coltrane. But once again,
life is not turning out
the way Josie imagines
and she finds herself
back in Liverpool,
alone. As she renews old
loves and former
friendships, and
reflects on her time at
Barefoot House, she
embarks upon a career
which is as unlikely as
it is successful.
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Emma Blair once again
richly evokes the setting
and characters of
Scotland during the 30s.
Continuing the story she
began in Flower of
Scotland, Emma invites
the reader back into the
lives of the Drummond
family, who are still
dealing with the
aftermath of the First
World War but now must
also face up to the
horrors of the Second.
Andrew and Rose are
running the distillery
and have given a job to
Jack's son, Tommy. Tommy
hates the work and longs
to be a pilot but Jack,
horribly disfigured after
the first war, forbids
it. The onset of the new
war sweeps aside any such
decision... Andrew and
Rose must cope with the
loss of their baby;
Andrew tries to manage as
Rose's behaviour becomes
increasingly bizarre but
finds he must also face
up to his own failing
health... An enormously
touching story and life,
love and death.
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HERE IS A SMALL FACT -
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
1939. Nazi Germany. The
country is holding its
breath. Death has never
been busier. Liesel, a
nine-year-old girl, is
living with a foster
family on Himmel Street.
Her parents have been
taken away to a
concentration camp.
Liesel steals books. This
is her story and the
story of the inhabitants
of her street when the
bombs begin to fall. SOME
IMPORTANT INFORMATION -
THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY
DEATH It's a small story,
about: a girl, an
accordionist, some
fanatical Germans, a
Jewish fist fighter and
quite a lot of thievery.
ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD
KNOW - DEATH WILL VISIT
THE BOOK THIEF THREE
TIMES 1939. Nazi Germany.
The country is holding
its breath. Death has
never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old
girl, is living with a
foster family on Himmel
Street. Her parents have
been taken away to a
concentration camp.
Liesel steals books. This
is her story and the
story of the inhabitants
of her street when the
bombs begin to fall. SOME
IMPORTANT INFORMATION -
THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY
DEATH It's a small story,
about: a girl, an
accordionist, some
fanatical Germans, a
Jewish fist fighter and
quite a lot of thievery.
ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD
KNOW - DEATH WILL VISIT
THE BOOK THIEF THREE
TIMES
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'The bedlam of battle had
begun. All around me men
cried and fell to the
ground, and horses
reared and screamed in an
agony of fear and pain.
The shells whined and
roared overhead, and
every explosion seemed
like an earthquake to
us.' One horse has seen
the best and the worst of
humanity. The power of
war and the beauty of
peace. This is his story.
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Matthew Hawkwood,
ex-soldier turned Bow
Street Runner, goes
undercover to hunt down
smugglers and traitors at
the height of the
Napoleonic Wars in this
thrilling follow-up to
Ratcatcher. For a French
prisoner of war, there
is only one fate worse
than the gallows: the
hulks. Former
man-o'-wars, now
converted to prison
ships, their fearsome
reputation guarantees a
sentence served in the
most dreadful conditions.
Few survive. Escape,
it's said, is
impossible. Yet reports
persist of a sinister
smuggling operation
within this brutal world
? and the Royal Navy is
worried enough to send
two of its officers to
investigate. But when
they disappear without
trace, the Navy turns in
desperation to Bow Street
for help. It's time to
send in a man as
dangerous as the prey.
It's time to send in
Hawkwood
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Pretty seventeen-year-old
Greta has never known a
stable family life. With
no father, and loathing
her mother Rubys
latest boyfriend, Greta
finds life hard at home
and is happiest at work
with her friends at the
Cadbury factory in
Birmingham where she is
popular with the boys.
Life takes a turn for the
worse when her missing
vixen of a sister Marleen
turns up during the
freezing winter of 1962.
Greta soon decides that
her only way out is
marriage, but all too
soon she discovers that
life with her old class
mate Trevor is not a
ticket to freedom and
happiness. She finds
herself on the streets,
pregnant and homeless?
She is taken in by her
mothers old
friends, Edie and
Anatoli Gruschov. In
Anatoli, Greta finds the
father she has never had.
Kindly Edie loves to
mother people and is
desperately missing her
son David and his family
who have settled in
Israel. But the love and
security of this haven is
soon shattered by
appalling tragedy, which
affects all the chocolate
girls and their children
and changes life forever?
Continuing the saga begun
in Chocolate Girls, and
set in 1960s Birmingham,
this is a story of
families whose lives are
entwined, of belonging
and loss? and of a young
womans search for
transforming love.
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Iris is getting old. A
widow, her days are
spent living quietly and
worrying about her
granddaughter, Grace, a
headstrong young doctor.
It's a small sort of
life. But one day Iris
receives something
unexpected in the post -
an invitation to a WWI
reunion in France.
Determined to go, Iris
is overcome by memories
of the past and of her
journey to France in
1914, where she followed
her young brother Tom,
intending to bring him
home to safety. But on
her way to find Tom,
Iris discovers the old
abbey of Royaumont,
where a group of women
work to set up a field
hospital. Putting her
fears aside, Iris
decides to stay and help.
It is at Royaumont that
she truly comes of age,
finding her capability
and her strength,
discovering her passion
for medicine, making
friends with the
vivacious Violet and
falling in love. But war
is a brutal thing, and
there is a terrible price
that Iris has to pay - a
price that will echo down
the generations.
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When elite operative John
Stratton is sent to Yemen
by the Secret
Intelligence Service to
track down a suspected
al-Qaeda cell, he thinks
he knows what he is
dealing with. But when he
and his colleagues get
captured by Somali
pirates, all bets are
off. Stratton discovers
what it is like to be
held hostage by ruthless
men who have a deadly
agenda - men for whom
Stratton and his
colleagues are just
bargaining chips. And
this is no ordinary
hostage situation:
Stratton has stepped
right into the middle of
a massive and sickening
jihadist operation.
Fighting trained warriors
who know no fear,
Stratton's skill and
ingenuity will be tested
as never before as he
battles for his life and
for the values he holds
dear...
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11:15 am, 3 September
1939. Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain
confirms the nation's
fears by announcing that
Britain is at war with
Germany. Outbreak is the
definitive history of the
build-up to, outbreak
and first few months of
the Second World War.
Drawing on the Imperial
War Museum's extensive
archives, this book
features the personal
stories of real men and
women who lived through
the startling events of
that year, as well as
those who were actively
involved in the political
negotiations and their
aftermath. Featuring
numerous photographs and
the voices of key
players, as well as
contributions from
well-known figures who
were directly affected by
the build up to war,
Outbreak is a gripping
record of an
extraordinary year in
British history.
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Golden-haired,
sunny-natured Amy is the
apple of her mother's
eye, youngest and
dearest of Annie
Flanagan's lively brood
of thirteen. With the
outbreak of World War II
the Flanagan family is
sundered, shaken from
their crowded nest in
London's East End. Joe is
soon made a sergeant,
fighting in France. Billy
volunteers for the Army
Transport, young Dan
fulfils his dreams and
joins the RAF. The young
ones are evacuated from
the war-torn capital -
the girls to Devon and
the boys to a school in
the Midlands they reckon
is worse than Colditz!
The war brings tragedy -
even the old home is in
ruins, bombed and
shell-splintered. It's
Amy, with her fierce
courage and
determination, who pulls
the family back together.
Then handsome Sparky,
full of wicked charm and
Cockney banter, walks
into her life and wins
her heart. Turbulent
happy years follow; times
of great joy for Amy and
times of bitter
heart-rending when family
ties war against the
needs of her feckless
darling husband.
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Adam Deveril, the new
Viscount Lynton and a
hero at Salamanca,
returns from the
Peninsula War to find his
family on the brink of
ruin and the broad acres
of his ancestral home
mortgaged to the hilt. It
is Lord Oversley, father
of Adam's first love,
who tactfully introduces
him to Mr Jonathan
Chaleigh, a City man of
apparently unlimited
wealth with no social
ambitions for himself,
but with his eyes firmly
fixed on a suitable match
for his one and only
daughter. For more than
fifty years Georgette
Heyer brought romance and
adventure to a wordwide
readership and Civil
Contarct shows how she
continues to be loved
today.
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It is just before the
outbreak of World War 1
and Britain must enlist
the aide of Russia. Czar
Nicholas's nephew is to
visit London for secret
naval talks with Lord
Waldren, who has lived
in Russia and has a
Russian wife, Lydia. But
there are other people
who are interested in the
arrival of Prince Alexei:
the Waldrens' only
daughter Charlotte -
wilful, idealistic, and
with an awakening social
conscience; Basil
Thompson, head of
Special Branch; and above
all, Feliks Kschessinky,
the ruthless Russian
anarchist. No one could
have foretold that Lydia
should recognise Feliks,
or that she might put her
own daughters life at
risk for his sake. As the
secret negotiations
progress, the destinies
of these characters
become ineluctably
enmeshed. And as Europe
prepares for the
catastrophe of war, the
final private tragedy
which will shatter the
complacency of the
Waldens is acted out.
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Plymouth, 1954. The
future seems rosy for
schoolgirl Anna
Millington as she studies
for teacher training
college. But Anna’s
life isn’t all that it
appears. Her family has
hidden a cruel secret
since the worst night of
the Plymouth Blitz back
in 1941, a night Anna
remembers all too well as
a small child cowering in
a bomb shelter. Now the
devastating consequences
threaten to erupt again
in tragedy, compelling
Anna to abandon to her
friends and career hopes
and flee for her life to
nearby Dartmoor.
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The guys in the Regiment
know they face their
fiercest enemies when
they fight the Taliban.
No-one is tougher, more
deadly - or more cunning.
And if they enter the
Taliban's kill zone,
they know just what to
expect...When three
deadly Stinger missiles
go missing in Helmand
Province, the Regiment
is tasked to retrieve the
weapons at all costs. SAS
legend Jack Harker has a
mission to lead an
eight-man team into a
suspected Taliban
facility. He's suspicious
about what the aims of
the mission really are -
and it's about to get
noisy. Meanwhile, in
Belfast, Siobhan Byrne,
a highly trained
surveillance operative,
is infiltrating the drug
crew of a former IRA
commander. But are her
motives professional or
personal? Even she
doesn't know any more.
Neither Jack nor Siobhan
can guess just how
closely linked their
operations are about to
become, or just what's
at stake. But as the
President of the United
States makes plans to
visit the UK, a
devastating plot unfolds.
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Summer, 1545. England is
at war. Henry VIIIs
invasion of France has
gone badly wrong, and a
massive French fleet is
preparing to sail across
the Channel...
Meanwhile, Matthew
Shardlake is given an
intriguing legal case by
an old servant of Queen
Catherine Parr. Asked to
investigate claims of
?monstrous wrongs?
committed against his
young ward, Hugh
Curteys, by Sir Nicholas
Hobbey, Shardlake and
his assistant Barak
journey to Portsmouth.
There, Shardlake also
intends to investigate
the mysterious past of
Ellen Fettiplace, a
young woman incarcerated
in the Bedlam. Once in
Portsmouth, Shardlake
and Barak find themselves
in a city preparing for
war. The mysteries
surrounding the Hobbey
family and the events
that destroyed
Ellens family
nineteen years before,
involve Shardlake in
reunions both with an old
friend and an old enemy
close to the throne. Soon
events will converge on
board one of the
kings great
warships gathered in
Portsmouth harbour,
waiting to sail out and
confront the approaching
French fleet.
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The war is progressing
for the Nippies, the
girls who work at the
Lyons Corner House in
Marble Arch. With the
air-raids, rationing and
blackouts, life no
longer has the carefree
attitude it used to have.
But new pain and pleasure
await as everyone decides
what effort they can make
towards victory. Jo
yearns for Nick, but the
burns he sustained when
he was shot down are
life-changing and need
the new procedure of
plastic surgery. Will
their marriage ever go
ahead? And does Jo want
it to? She loses herself
in her new role as
lumberjill, one of the
women hewing timber for
the war effort.
Meanwhile, Phyl has been
selected, along with
some other trusted
Nippies, for secret
work. Far from family and
friends, she works with
munitions and tries to
forget her desire to be a
Wren. Her husband is far
away but she never loses
faith that one day they
will be reunited...
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