World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory girls & is sent to the ordnance factories in her hometown of Nottingham.

At first she relishes the opportunity for a nostalgia trip, but when she starts work on a portrait of two particular women, violet Smith, & her co-worker Zelah Fitzlord, memories begin to resurface that she has spent half a lifetime trying to forget.

violet is an industrial conscript, & her wages help support a sprawling family back home in Kent. But working in munitions also meant freedom from a small-town mentality, & the disappointment of a first love turned sour.

For Zelah, too, working in the gun factory meant escape: her dreams of the future were dashed in the carnage of the Plymouth Blitz, & she found refuge in the numbing repetition of manual work.

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• ISBN: 9781471161865
• Author: Clare Harvey
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 423
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940.

The pilot

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Heavy rains have burst the banks of the Willamette River, several people have died in the furiously rising water, but the latest victim didn?t drown. She was killed before she went in to the water. Other victims are found, & Police Detective Archie Sheridan realizes that Portland has a new serial killer on its hands. ...

Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.

At

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If the Night Stalker is watching, youre already dead...

In the dead of a swelteringly hot summers night, Detective Erika

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When their midnight snack is interrupted by some shocking news, the ninjas don't hang about!

Their new mission is to

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Books Adventure Books Follow Lana & Harrison from The Day I Fell into a Fairytale, as they adventure through a storybook land… Lana & Harrison are staying with their grandparents when they discover their favourite tree to play in are under threat. That night, a magical golden thread leads them up through the hollow of the tree into a storybook l&, where wind & rain rage & a fearsome beast terrifies all who live there. When Harrison is kidnapped by the evil Spider Queen, Lana must do whatever it takes to find him, save the villagers & restore the balance of the storybook world, before the night is out. By bestselling author, comedian & beloved actor, Ben Miller, who brings you another magical & hilarious story that both adults & children will enjoy!   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781471192494 •†Author:†  Ben Miller •†Publisher:†  Simon & Schuster Ltd •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 304 •†Dimensions:† 21.6 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm ...

Matron Kathleen Fox has the job of putting the Nightingale Hospital back together. But memories & ghosts of those lost fill the bomb-damaged buildings, & she wonders if she is up to the task.

In the name of festive cheer Kathleen decides to put on a Christmas Show for the patients. The idea is greeted with mixed feelings by the nurses, who are struggling with their own post-war problems.

And the newly-formed rivalry between newcomer Assistant Matron Charlotte Davis & ward sister violet Tanner isn’t helping matters.

As rehearsals begin however, it seems the show isn’t just a tonic for the patients – could the Nightingale Christmas Show be just what the doctor ordered for the nurses too?

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• ISBN: 9781787462113
• Author: Donna Douglas
• Publisher: Penguin
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 358
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna Stockholm, Sweden: the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an abandoned boat. Later, a man is found hanging alone in his apartment. Should the deaths be treated as suicide or murder? Only four people know the answer. & one man wants them dead. Can Detective Inspector Joona Linna keep them alive long enough to find out the truth? ...

DI Zoe Dolan is tracking a stalker who brutally attacks women in their own homes. With no idea how he gets in, or who hell target next, the case is at a dead end
- until a tip-off from a confidential helpline.

But instead of helping, the new information drags Zoe deeper into the darkness. As the psyche of a vicious criminal threatens to drown her, the traumas of the past shes never escaped creep closer & closer.

Now, for Zoe & the other women of the city, nowhere is safe. Particularly their own bedroom in the dead of night.

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• ISBN: 9781409137610
• Author: Steve Mosby
• Publisher: Orion Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 19 x 12cm












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