Seventeen-year-old Constance has had a privileged upbringing in Clapham, with staff to attend to her every need.

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Agnes Sullivan is 15 when she is found crying in the lane near her parent's farm by her younger brother Tom. She's been attacked & abandoned. Heartbroken, she is forced to leave her family & home. Tom, barely a teenager himself, decides the attacker must pay for his actions. Annie flees to Birmingham, but the safe haven she's been promised turns out to be too dangerous to stay for too long. With few options she's given a helping hand by a person she'd never even spoken to from her past life. Will World War One ruin her precarious hopes for the future? & will she ever see any of her family again? ...

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The beginning of a br&-new trilogy from bestselling author Kay Brell&, featuring the Silvertown Explosion, the rise of women’s football, & East End suffragettes. She is her family’s only hope. 1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper’s mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover’s unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from questions, & bound to secrecy by her beloved mother, Clover leaves her infant brother at a nunnery for safekeeping, despite her heartbreak at parting with him. But when Sidney unexpectedly returns from the Western Front, life at home suddenly feels more dangerous than a battlefield. Strained by keeping such a secret, Clover turns to her fiercely protective grandmother, Elsie, for advice. But Elsie has her own life-changing decision to make. Then tragedy strikes, & Clover will have to fin... ...

Kathy Cole, is a determined young woman. She refuses to stay at home with her bitter, drunken father & is instead determined to do her bit for the men in the Great War by training to be a nurse.

While in training, she meets up with a face from the past – Tom O’ Rourke – now a doctor with many responsibilities. He doesnt initially take much notice of the young, innocent Kathy & she knows it’s wrong to think of Tom as anything other than a friend, especially as shes promised to Billy Ryan back home in the East End.

However, Kathy & Tom find themselves thrown together &, like so many other young couples during the war, they become closer than they should.

But when the war is finally over, Kathy makes a life-changing decision about her future, believing it to be the only possible solution... with disastrous effects.

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• ISBN: 9780008168612
• Author: Cathy Sharp
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 298
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm













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Angela O' Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt & uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Irel&, but for Angela it means that her mother & father don't love her any more.

Angela is well cared for until she's sixteen, but then her uncle takes to drink, & it's not safe for her to stay in his house. Moving to Liverpool in the early 1960s, she begins to make her mark in the world of fashion design. But the pain of a disastrous love affair sends her home to Ireland just after the death of her aunt: & there, among old papers, Angela makes an astonishing discovery. As she learns the truth about the past, a brighter new future beckons.

This paperback book has 438 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3cm



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After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa & Europe. The conflict in Southeast Asia, however, has reached new heights of savagery, & Operation Monsun poses a sinister threat to the hope of allied victory. The Special Operations mission of the Burmese coast requires volunteers. Men with nothing to live for, or men with everything to lose. Men like Lieutenant James Ross, awarded the Victoria Cross for his work in underwater sabotage, or the desperate amateur Charles Villiers, heir to a fortune now controlled by the Japanese. The tow-man torpedo ...

A taste of the daily lives of the people, animals & objects who made history.

Featuring a day in the life of early

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If you've ever wanted to know what a panda does all day long, how your heart manages to shift all that blood around your body

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