Thirteenth-century France: Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. Nut the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents & supernatural abilities. Bridget's duty to continue the bloodline leads her into the arms of Raoul de Montvallant
- a Catholic. But when the Church's savage religious intolerance causes Raoul to turn rebel, a terrible vengeance is extracted by Simon de Montfort, the unstoppable Catholic leader...
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Maddy Shillabeer's prospects are limited.

Being the only woman in a household of men, she's resigned herself to

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The autobiography of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Hong Ying grew up in a slum on the banks of the Yangtze, an area permanently veiled in fog & steeped in superstition. Life was precarious & Hong Ying, the youngest of the six children, grew up afraid that she would be condemned to a life of carrying sand & emptying chamber pots. Gradually, Hong Ying began to try & solve some of the mysteries which had seemed to surround her early life: a stalker who had followed her since she was a child, a VD record in her father's file, & a persistent feeling that there was something strange about her birth. Among her discoveries, Hong Ying learnt that her mother was once married to a Triadman who had died in a labour camp as a counter-revolutionary, while her father, now a blind sailor, had several times barely escaped with his life during the civil war. Under the corrupt rule, her mother had taken extreme measures to keep the children alive while several of her relatives starved to death during the Great Famine. Moreover, Hong Ying's stalker turned out to have an astoundingly close connection with her. After the tragic deaths of both her first lover & her first child, Hong Ying decided she had to take control of her own life: she left home & worked hard to become a published poet & a novelist. After the events in Tian'anmen Square, she left China to live in London. ...

Inspector Alan Grant, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains
- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure?
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Details: A captivating new saga set in Liverpool & Irel&, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE & FAR FROM HOME
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Love blossoms under the storm clouds of war

Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought

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William Melville's daughters are heiresses to the world's most exclusive fashion dynasty. Rich & beautiful, they are envied by all. But behind the glittering facade of their lives, each girl hides their own dark secret that threatens to tear their family apart. As each of them seeks to carve out her own destiny, they face difficult choices, taking them into wildly different directions. Their paths inevitably cross as old wounds resurface & threaten to destroy the Melville empire. ...

With the scars of World War I still fresh, the Dransfield family face further challenges... When Steven Dransfield loses his fortune in the Depression, his wife Leonie is forced to save the family from ruin. But Steve resents the success of her dressmaking business &, trapped in a loveless marriage, Leonie is drawn into the arms of another man. Just as their children, Milo & June, begin to spread their wings, Leonie finds herself pregnant, but her duty lies with her family & when Amy is born she unites them all. Then with the outbreak of World War II & danger looming in Liverpool, Amy is evacuated to Wales, &, as the bombs start to drop, lives are lost & hearts are broken & the Dransfields must learn to support one another through the heartache that lies ahead. ...

France, 1944.

Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village,

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Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women
- her daughters-in-law
- are usurping her position.

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