Books Historical Fiction Books A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships & the sustaining power of love & community... Bellbird River, 1998: Teacher & single mum Alex has arrived in the small town of Belllbird River after escaping the city in search of a change of pace & the chance to reconnect with her young daughter. Across town, well-known matriarch Victoria & her globe-trotting, opera-singing cousin Gabrielle find themselves at a crossroads in their personal & professional lives, while local baker Janine & newcomer to the area Debbie are each secretly dealing with the consequences of painful pasts. With its dusty streets, lone pub & iron-lace verandahs, Bellbird River could just be a pit stop on the road to somewhere else. But their town holds some secrets & surprises
- & it has a heart: the Bellbird River choir. Amid the melodies & camaraderie of the choir, each of the women will find the courage to leave the past behind. A...
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Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, & loathing her mother Rubys latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home & 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 & happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant & homeless? She is taken in by her mothers old friends, Edie & Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people & is desperately missing her son David & his family who have settled in Israel. But the love & security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls & their children & changes life forever? Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls, & set in 1960s Birmingham, this is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging & loss? & of a young womans search for transforming love. ...

Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls, this is a story of families who lives are entwined, of loving & loss... & of a young girl's search for transforming love. It is 1962 & pretty seventeen-year-old Greta finds life at home hard. She has no father, & loathes her mother's latest boyfriend. She's happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory, where she is popular with the boys. When her missing vixen of a sister, Marlene, turns up during the worst winter for decades, Greta decides that she has to get away, & the only escape route is marriage. However, she soon finds out that life with her old classmate, Trevor, is not as she'd hoped & freedom & happiness still elude her. She finds herself on the streets
- pregnant & homeless
- until her mother's friends Edie & Anatoli take her in, & provide the safe, secure haven she has never known. Until, that is tragedy strikes & shatters not only Greta's world, but also the lives of those around her. Life for all of them will never be the same again...

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In 1930, Bridget O? Brien, a young widow with two children, fled her brutal & bigoted father & headed for Liverpool & an arranged marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination, the famous Scotland Road, was noisome & terrifying & a far cry from the clean air & flowing rivers of the only country she had known, Irel&. When she met her middle-aged bridegroom, Sam Bell, whose twin sons were older than she was, her sense of isolation only increased. Anthony, one of her so-called stepsons, also held out the strong hand of friendship, but Liam, the favourite of his father, had the power to terrify her. Liam was cold, compelling, mysterious & antagonistic. He was also a priest. ...

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised & made a new life for himself amid the colleges & spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home's most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets & falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful & enigmatic medical student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship & privilege, & soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden's self-belief knows no bounds, & as he draws his sister & closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all... ...

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex's first children's book, The Bench, beautifully captures the special relationship between father

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It's never too late to take a stand! From the director of Big Daddy & Happy Gilmore & produced by Adam Sandler comes this hit slapstick comedy for anyone who has been picked on, put down or pushed around. Rob Schneider, David Spade & Jon Hedrer star as three older guys who know what it'slike to be bullied. After catching some nasty kids picking on their friends son, they strike back by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge the state's best Little Leaguers. Now, cheered on by every nerd, geek & misfit in town, these underdogs are about to have a field day. ...

This helpful handbook tells you everything you need to know for a truly victorious vacation. From top tanning tips by Madge Harvey, a guide to holiday romance from Mateo, to advice on how to make your holiday 'swing' from Donald & Jacqueline, you'll find it all within the pages of this essential holiday bible. ...

Join comedy megastar Benny Hill in two of his classic shows from the 1970's. Known throughout the world for his combination of high-speed farce, risque jokes & gorgeous ladies, it is these shows
- made for Thames Television
- that turned him into a global household name. With every show a critically acclaimed ratings topper, it's no surprise that The Benny Hill Show was one of the most successful programmes on British television. So join Benny, the ladies & his trio of hopeless helpers (Henry Mc Gee, Bob Todd & Jack Wright) in two superb shows from 1976.

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Berlin, 1945: A group of Nazis frantically plot the next steps for their country. SS recruits gather east of the city for an

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