London, 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields, Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady of the Robin Hood pub. But Cathy has a secret from her life before – a daughter, June, whom she had to leave behind. After all these years, can June accept her? Cathy’s friend Sofia faces her own dilemma. Encountering a man from her past, Sofia is given the opportunity to return to her hometown, Naples. It would mean escaping her own troubles in the Sixteen Streets… if only she dares take the chance. Cathy & Sofia have worked hard to shed the sorrows of their youth. But maybe by revisiting the past, they can work towards a happier future… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398708990 • Author: Elsie Mason • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm ...

Dora Rodgers is adjusting to a new life in Liverpool with her young daughters Carol & Jackie. After the fear of the war years & a difficult break up with her husband Joe, Dora is finally building a future with her children.

But then an unexpected knock at the door rips her family in two.

To Doras horror, Carol is taken away by a welfare officer to live with Joe. She is determined to fight for her child, but when a tragic accident leaves her mother in hospital, & shocking news from Joe breaks her heart again, she struggles to cope.

With her family in pieces & her marriage over for good, will Dora ever manage to get her daughter Carol home where she belongs?

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• ISBN: 9780349132501
• Author: Pam Howes
• Publisher: Bookouture
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 267
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm













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Twenty-eight-year-old Lana Green has never been good at making friends. She’s perfectly happy to be left alone with her books. Or at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Nancy Ellis Hall was once a celebrated writer. Now eighty, she lives alone in her North London house, & thinks she’s doing just fine. But dementia is loosening Nancy’s grip on the world.

When Lana & Nancy become unconventional house mates, their lives will change in ways they never expected. But can an unusual friendship rescue two women who don’t realise they need to be saved?

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• ISBN: 9780008281809
• Author: Sophie Jenkins
• Publisher: Avon
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 310
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not

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Romulus & Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold
- Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior & soothsayer, born enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. Brennus is a Gaul, his entire family killed by the Romans, & he rises to become one of the most famous & feared gladiators of his day. The lives of these characters are bound & interwoven in an odyssey which begins in a Rome riven by political corruption & violence, but ends far away, at the very border of the known world, where the tattered remnants of a once-huge Roman army
- the Forgotten Legion
- will fight against overwhelming odds, & the three men will meet their destiny. This book has 657 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 2.8cm


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Arthur Pettinger's memory isn't what it used to be. 

He can't always remember the names of his grandchildren, where

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Southampton 1940.

Abandoned when she was tiny, Maisie Reynolds was separated from her twin brother & forced to grow

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In an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love… London 1900: Alice Webster has made the worst decision of her life. When her Aunt Agatha offers her the chance to go on a Grand Tour she jumps at the opportunity to get away from the glare of scandal. Heading off to see the world as the century turns, Alice begins to believe her broken heart can be healed, & a chance encounter on a train bound for Paris changes everything.  When their journey takes them to a Cretan house thick with history, & the world-famous dig at Knossos, stories from the past begin to echo through Alice’s life. London Present Day: Eloise De’ Ath is meant to be a grieving widow. But if people knew the truth about her late husb&, they’d understand why she can’t even pretend. Needing to escape, Eloise heads to Crete & the house her father-in-law Quinn left her, & slowly Quinn’s home begins to reveal its mysteries.  In his office Eloise discovers his life’s work: the st... ...

1940: Wounded in action, Archie Maxwell returns to his Scottish family estate of Rosslie. But between the uneasy company of his father's new wife, & the nightmares that haunt him, he finds the house more of a battleground than a refuge. 1980: Journalist Eva Bayne arrives at Rosslie looking for a story. Since Archie's disappearance forty years ago, the Maxwells have lived in the shadows
- & Eva is drawn to their mystery. Especially when a glimpse of a photograph stirs up long-buried memories of her childhood in Newfoundland... Could uncovering the truth heal the wounds of Eva's past? & what will it cost for Rosslie to give up its secrets? Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781399717656 •†Author: Sarah Maine •†Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:†368 •†Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm
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An international bestseller, this is a German soldiers first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War.

When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue & constant deprivation.

Posted to the crack Grosse Deutchland division, with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade, he enters a violent & remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down, & all that matters is the brute will to survive.

As the biting cold of the Russian winter sets in, & the tide begins to turn against the Germans, life becomes an endless round of pounding artillery attacks & vicious combat against a relentless & merciless Red Army.

A book of stunning force, this is an unforgettable reminder of the horrors of war.







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