Lesley Pearse Number 1 bestselling author of Stolen & Belle" returns with the phenomenal novel " The Promise". Heartbreaking enduring & masterfully told " The Promise" will take you on a breathtaking journey into the battlefields of the First World War. War threatens to take all she has loved & lived for... On the outbreak of war Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists & heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There a tragic accident brings her face to face with Etienne
- a man from her past she's never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion loyalty & love Belle is caught in an impossible situation. Will she succumb to the dark forces of this most brutal of wars? Or will fate intervene & finally lead her to lasting happiness? " The Promise" vividly describes life behind the front line & the tragic choices that war forces people to make. " Pearse will pull your heartstrings". (" Sun"). " Characters it is impossible not to care about". (" Daily Mail"). " An addictive tear-jerker with characters you'll adore laugh with & cry for". (" Bella"). " Full of love passion & heartbreak". (" Best"). " Glorious heartwarming". (" Woman & Home"). Lesley Pearse's fourteen most recent books including " Belle" " Stolen" " Gypsy" " Faith" " Hope" "A Lesser Evil" " Secrets" " Remember Me" " Till We Meet Again" " Father Unknown" " Trust Me" " Never Look Back" " Charlie & Rosie" are huge bestsellers & available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol & has three daughters & two grandchildren. Find Lesley on Twitter @ Lesley Pearse or find out more on her website."
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This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl & her brother growing up during the Second World War caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. Written specially for children Eva describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind & loving parents & her older brother Heinz whom she adored. But when the Nazis marched into Austria everything changed. Eva's family fled to Belgium then to Amsterdam where with the help of the Dutch Resistance they spent the next two years in hiding
- Eva & her mother in one house & her father & brother in another. Finally though they were all betrayed & deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Pol&. Despite the horrors of the camp Eva's positive attitude & stubborn personality (which had often got her into trouble) saw her through one of the most tragic events in history & she & her mother eventually returned to Amsterdam. Sadly her father & brother perished just weeks before the liberation. Eva & her mother went back to the house where Heinz & his father had hidden for Eva had remembered that Heinz had told her he had hidden his paintings beneath the floorboards there. Sure enough there were over thirty beautiful paintings. Heinz hadn't wasted any of his talents during his captivity. For Eva here was a tangible everlasting memory of her brother & a reminder of her father's promise that all the good things you accomplish will make a difference to someone & your achievements will be carried on. Heinz's paintings have been on display in exhibitions in the USA & are now a part of a permanent exhibition in Amsterdam's war museum. Told simply & clearly for younger readers The Promise" is an unforgettable story written by Eva Schloss the step-daughter of Otto Frank & Barbara Powers Eva's very close friend."
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They promised never to say goodbye.. . For Michael & Nancy the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end bringing the hardest test of their love for each other. He was the handsome heir to the mighty Hillyard business empire. She was just twenty-one beautiful
- & an orphan from nowhere. One fateful day after graduation they sealed a bond for years to come
- a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy doubt & despair.. .

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San Francisco 1904. Georgia Briscoe a young woman from a good family is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him but when the couple are married it soon transpires that Drews charm is only skin-deep & that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women including Georgias maid Maura & jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia & Maura fall pregnant both women decide to escape to be with the men they love providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew
- & much more besides. London 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed Prudence claims that Chrissies mother Vanessa & her late father Aaran are brother & sister. As the truth unfurls the passion emotion & astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed & three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
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When a handsome man literally falls at her feet while she's walking through a moonlit convent courtyard Helena knows he must be there for a scandalous liaison. Yet she keeps his presence a secret from the questioning nuns
- & for her silence the stranger rewards her with an enticing unforgettable kiss. What Helena doesn't know was that her wild Englishman is Sebastian Cynster Duke of St. Ives. Seven years later Sebastian spies Helena from across a crowded ballroom. This heiress is dazzling London society with her wit & beauty tantalising all the eligible men with the prospect of taking her hand in marriage. But Helena is not looking for just any husb&. She wants an equal a challenge
- someone who can live up to the promise of that delicious never-forgotten kiss.

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Whenever an august figure departs the world of cricket The Daily Telegraph records a decorous tribute. There will certainly be an obituary
- in days of yore penned by the doyen of cricket writers E.W. Swanton in recent times unafraid to be a lot more whimsical waspish & even extremely funny. There will often be an appreciation by one of the paper's stable of cricket correspondents such as Derek Pringle Michael Henderson or Scyld Berry most likely drawing on their memories of having played against the subject or watched his deeds. & sometimes a hero's demise will prompt a heartfelt tribute from someone whose only qualification as an elegist is their own eloquence as John Major displays on Denis Compton & Michael Parkinson on Keith Miller. & those cricket lives deemed worthy of memorialising need not be illustrious Test careers though all the great names from Bradman to Bedser Cowdrey to D' Oliviera are here. They can also be quixotic county mavericks like ' Bomber' Wells self-effacing professionals like Tom Cartwright & Derek Shackleton or charismatic one-offs like Colin Milburn or the Nawab of Pataudi. They may not even be cricketers but rather much-loved commentators & broadcasters like Brian Johnston & Christopher Martin-Jenkins players-turned-umpires like David Shepherd & Bill Alley or like the Bishop of Liverpool who previously opened for Sussex & England have made their name equally elsewhere. Their achievements are often hymned by their peers
- Mark Nicholas on his Hampshire team-mate Malcolm Marshall Tony Lewis on John Arlott Colin Croft on Alf Valentine & Simon Hughes on facing the fearsome Sylvester Clarke. Here then are more than eighty greats of the game
- Australians & South Africans alongside Somerset yeomen & Yorkshire's finest. For any cricket lover this little book is an endlessly browsable testament to the sheer richness & variety of the cricketing life.


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Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride leaving behind her baby son her sister Nadia & Nadias two small children. As she described so powerfully in her internationally bestselling book SOLD Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could to obtain their freedom as well. A PROMISE TO NADIA tells the extraordinary story of those ten years; of the familys lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities; of the refusal of their own government in London to help; & of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organisation specialising in the recovery of abducted children. ...

Anthony Clavane loves Leeds
- certainly the football club but also the city & the tribes that make it. Now that he is an exile
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'I Must Stand Up for Myself More' promises Maggie Storm who spends her days cleaning houses for people who often have more money than manners. Married to a man with as much sex appeal as Mr Blobby she dreams of a life straight from the pages of a romantic novel. ' My Head Must Rule Over My Heart' promises Ella Moore who determined never to let her heart get the better of her again is recovering from seven wasted years of failing to win over the daughter of the man with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. ' No More Women' promises Ethan Edwards who to distract himself from the depressing sham of his marriage is a repeat offender when it comes to turning to other women for sexual consolation. But when Ella appears unexpectedly in his life he finds himself turning to her for very different reasons... ...

The village of Glenree is home to the Munroe women: from the glamorous new in-law Emma to dogsbody Miriam & Airs-&-Graces Sheila who is forced to watch her own daughter Ellen become the talk of the county. The saying love is blind could have been invented for the wayward Ellen whose life changes for ever when she leaves the ebony darkness & winding country roads of Glenree for the bright lights of the city. It is there she falls in love with Chris Wallace a skunk of the highest order. Promises Promises" covers a decade in the lives of the four Munroe women
- & the charming womanizer who left a trail of emotional destruction in his wake. This is a tale of love & heartbreak laughter & tears that will strike a chord with all women...especially those who have loved a rotter!"
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