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**THE NINTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES**
'Emotional and gripping' Take a Break
______________________________ Sunderland, 1943: As Christmas
approaches in the shipyards, everyone is hoping for a little
magic... Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing
Dr Parker of her true feelings for him. But how can she when he
clearly has eyes for someone else? More than a year has passed
since Bel's wedding to sweetheart Joe. She knows she has much to
feel thankful for and yet there is still one burning desire which
she cannot ignore. And as Polly grows with child, she hopes against
hope for a safe delivery - and that her husband Tommy can soon
return from the front line to meet their new arrival. There will be
storms to weather, but guided by their strength and friendship
there is still hope for each of the shipyard girls that their
Christmas wishes will come true. ______________________________
Praise for Nancy Revell 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the
passions and soothe the heart!' Northern Echo 'Stirring and
heartfelt storytelling' Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'The author
is one to watch' Sun 'Well-drawn, believable characters combined
with a storyline to keep you turning the pages' Woman
Inspired by true events, a breathtaking WWII historical novel about
the brave American women who trained the British Royal Air Force,
by New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath. 1941. A
talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation.
When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to
clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to
become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of
near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her
responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows
firsthand the heavy price paid in war . . . until he returns to the
battles he never truly left behind. Rhonda Monroe might not be
skilled in the air but can give a trainee a wild ride in a flight
simulator. Fearing little, she dares to jeopardize everything for a
forbidden relationship with a charismatic airman... Innocent and
fun-loving Kitty Lovelace, Jessie's younger sister, adores dancing
with these charming newcomers, realizing too late the risks they
pose to her heart. As the war intensifies and America becomes
involved, the Girls of Flight City do their part to bring a
victorious end to the conflict, pouring all their energy into
preparing the young cadets to take to the skies and defeat the
dangers that await. And lives from both sides of the Atlantic will
be forever changed by love and loss...
TWO MEN... ONE MISSION... TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Based
on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the
culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the
attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the
Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The
Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is a thrilling tale of
courage, resilience and betrayal. The story reads like a classic
World War Two thriller and is the subject of two big-budget
Hollywood films that coincide with the anniversary of Operation
Anthropoid. In 1942 two men, trained by the British SOE, parachuted
back into their native Czechoslovakia with one sole objective: to
kill the man ruling their homeland. Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik
risked everything for their country. Their attempt on Reinhard
Heydrich's life was one of the single most dramatic events of the
Second World War, and had horrific consequences for thousands of
innocent people.2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on
Heydrich, a man so evil even fellow SS officers referred to him as
the 'Blond Beast'. In Prague, he was known as the Hangman. Hitler,
who dubbed him 'The Man with the Iron Heart', considered Heydrich
his heir, and entrusted him with the implementation of the 'Final
Solution' to the Jewish 'problem': the systematic murder of eleven
million people. 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on
Heydrich, a man so evil even fellow SS officers referred to him as
the 'Blond Beast'. In Prague, he was known as the Hangman. Hitler,
who dubbed him 'The Man with the Iron Heart', considered Heydrich
his heir, and entrusted him with the implementation of the 'Final
Solution' to the Jewish 'problem': the systematic murder of eleven
million people.
'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel Hore London, 1944. Clara
Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in
East London Clara has created the country's only underground
library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube
station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of
bunk beds, a nursery, a cafe and a theatre offering shelter, solace
and escape from the bombs that fall above. Along with her glamorous
best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the
library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war
drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of
adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the
price of keeping those closest to them alive. Based on true events,
The Little Wartime Library is a gripping and heart-wrenching
page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories
of the war.
THE ELEVENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES
Sunderland, 1944 As the promise of victory draws closer, this
Christmas will surely be one to remember. It should be a magical
time for Dorothy, who has just been proposed to by her sweetheart
Toby. But with each day that passes, Dorothy's feelings for someone
else are growing stronger. Now she has an impossible choice to
make. Gloria is thrilled that her sweetheart Jack is finally home
after more than two years away. But his past is continuing to catch
up with them both - creating untold heartache for Gloria and
everyone she holds dear. Meanwhile Helen must contend with the
fall-out of a shocking family secret that has repercussions for all
the Shipyard Girls, while holding out hope for her own happy
ending... Can a little festive magic help them win the day?
___________________________________________ Praise for Nancy
Revell: 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the
heart!' Northern Echo 'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'Emotional and gripping' Take a
Break
The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli
coast, the 'lost' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for
Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo
arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager colonists to
join her brother and his new wife. Liliana is sure she was on the
brink of a great adventure, but what awaits her is not the
Mediterranean idyll of cocktail parties, smart dances, dashing
officers and romantic intrigues she had imagined. Instead she finds
a world of persecution, violence, repression, corruption and
deceptions both great and small. A child of fascist Italy, blown
about by the winds of fascism and Catholicism, Liliana becomes
enmeshed in a dark liaison which has terrible consequences both for
her and those she loves most. The Fourth Shore is the engrossing
and intensely poignant story of Liliana's journey from Rome to
Tripoli to a north London suburb where, as plain Lily Jones, she
begins to uncover a secret she has buried so deeply that even she
is far from certain what it is. Praise for Early One Morning by
Virginia Baily: 'As gripping as any thriller...really, really good'
Daily Mail 'A big, generous and absorbing piece of storytelling'
Samantha Harvey, Guardian 'A real treat' Philip Hensher, Observer
'Wonderful' Tessa Hadley
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937,
and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old
German narrator of Anna Seghers's multilayered masterpiece,
Transit, ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseilles. Along the way
he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and
discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase
with letters and the manuscript of a novel inside. As he makes his
way to Marseilles to find Weidel's wife, the narrator assumes the
identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think
he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseilles,
the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their
stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together
the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrator's
"deathly boredom," bringing him to a deeper awareness of the
transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for
their transit papers, some leaving, only to disappear into
internment camps. Several years before Waiting for Godot, Seghers
wrote this existential, political, literary thriller that explores
the significance of literature and the agonies of boredom and
waiting with extraordinary compassion and insight.
"A great WWII-era historical fiction that has it all: mystery,
suspense, history, espionage, action, and a dash of romance all
wrapped up into an addictive and intriguing novel." Goodreads
reviewer, A life-changing moment May 1941: German bombs drop on
Dublin taking Sarah Gillespie's family and home. Days later, the
man she loves leaves Ireland to enlist. A heart-breaking choice
With nothing to keep her in Ireland and a burning desire to help
the war effort, Sarah seeks refuge with relatives in England. But
before long, her father's dark past threatens to catch up with her.
A dangerous mission Sarah is asked to prove her loyalty to Britain
through a special mission. Her courage could save lives. But it
could also come at the cost of her own... A gripping story that
explores a deadly tangle of love and espionage in war-torn Britain,
perfect for fans of Pam Jenoff, Kate Quinn and Kate Furnivall.
Readers love Her Secret War: "Gorgeous... [it] swept me away... I
completely got lost in the writing and story... More, please!"
Goodreads reviewer, "Absolutely amazing, I loved every minute of
it.... had me on the edge of my seat from the very beginning... I
was so engrossed I very nearly missed my stop."Goodreads reviewer,
"I couldn't put it down... I can't praise this book enough."
NetGalley reviewer "Wow... The excitement!... What a rollercoaster.
Loved it." Goodreads reviewer, ">." Goodreads reviewer,
"Absolutely mesmerising from beginning to end." NetGalley reviewer,
"Excellent... please let there be a sequel." NetGalley reviewer,
"Had me hooked from the very start." NetGalley reviewer, "A
gripping and absorbing read... so many twists and turns, I found
myself turning the pages to see what would happen next."Goodreads
reviewer, "Everything in this book, from the epic start to the
gripping ending was hugely absorbing and enjoyable... brilliant."
Goodreads reviewer,
From the bestselling author of The Open Door comes a moving and
uplifting story about a generation of young people living through
World War II September, 1939. In the sleepy village of Roehampton,
Annie Webster has finally found comfort for herself and her
close-knit family, far from the poverty and hardships of their
childhood in Bermondsey. Then, an announcement shatters their
newfound peace. England is at war . . . As her brothers enlist for
duty, Annie sacrifices her glamorous job in London for the urgent
work of the WAAF, where women of all backgrounds pull together
tirelessly for the war effort. Brave, resourceful and determined to
do her bit for her country, Annie's intelligence and warmth singles
her out for a daring new role . . . But as Annie quickly catches
the eye of a dashing officer, will she ever find peace in her
heart? And will Annie and her loved ones survive Britain's darkest
hour? 'A heartwarming and uplifting tale' Daily Express PREVIOUSLY
PUBLISHED AS WINGS OF THE MORNING
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book
Club Pick* *An Indie Next Great Read* '[A] vivid depiction of a
family's heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding.' - Clare Lombardo,
New York Times Book Review 'Spanning generations and continents,
from pre-WWII Germany to current day midwestern America, Send For
Me is a richly imagined testament to the ties that bind.' Whitney
Scharer Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future
while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim,
Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come.
There are rumours that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but
Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect
them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in
love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter Ruthie, the dangers
grow closer: a brick thrown through her window; a childhood friend
who cuts ties with her; customers refusing to patronise the bakery.
Luckily Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for
America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and
safety are uncertain. Two generations later, in a small Midwestern
city, Ruthie's daughter and Annelise's granddaughter, Clare, is a
young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon her
grandmother's letters from Germany, she sees the history of her
family's sacrifices in a new light, and suddenly she's faced with
an impossible choice: the past, or her future. A novel of dazzling
emotional richness that is based on letters from Lauren Fox's own
family, Send for Me is an epic and intimate exploration of mothers
and daughters, duty and obligation, hope and forgiveness.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN'S
FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE 'The same chilling
brilliance of Daphne du Maurier's most unsettling short fiction'
FINANCIAL TIMES 'Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully
realised' DAILY MAIL 'It's a rare writer who can create a world as
convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page novel; Shipstead's
fluency in both forms is testament to the skill she modestly casts
as a work in progress' Stephanie Merritt, GUARDIAN 'Maggie
Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a poet's attention to
detail' THE TIMES A collection of sparkling award-winning stories
from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler
of the daring and the damaged. Diving into eclectic and vivid
settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a
Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of unforgettable characters,
Shipstead traverses the ordinary and extraordinary with cunning,
compassion, and wit. Meet the silent cowgirl and horse wrangler
escaping an ugly home life, only to fall into a decade-long
triangle of unrequited love; a male novelist who is just reckoning
with his own pretentiousness as his debut novel goes to print; a
honeymoon couple's time in the hills of Romania builds into a
moment of shattering tragedy. In the title story, a famous child
actress breaks away from a religious cult, as she tells - with
brittle candour - her tale of childhood damage and the dark side of
fame. Exuding both tenderness and bite, Shipstead exposes
complicated truths in this dazzling collection sealing her
reputation as an astonishingly versatile master of fiction.
--------------------- 'Shipstead is a writer who can vividly summon
whatever she chooses, taking the reader deep inside the world she
creates' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Shipstead observes people beautifully'
THE TIMES
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Harvest
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Georgina Harding
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'I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth
Strout, Jon McGregor' BBC Radio 4 'Harding achieves a weighty sense
of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the
aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness' Sunday
Times 'A masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and
compassion the darkest corners of the human heart' Guardian A farm
in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English
lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of
perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with
roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat. But
between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father's violent
death almost twenty years before, the unresolved narrative of their
childhood - a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the
last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to
surface as the work of the harvest begins. 'Taut and unsettling ...
A fine meditation on war's long reach' Mail on Sunday
On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a
12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was
serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, he
started to write this novel. 'What I wanted to do,' he says, 'was
to capture that feeling of those times and remind people of what
the country went through.' 'Fabulous, often funny . . . the
authentic, freewheeling atmosphere of a time when all bets were
off' Daily Mail As Churchill and the nation face their darkest hour
in 1940, a Lincolnshire village wakes up to a glorious summer's
morning. Following Dunkirk, the fate of the whole war will soon
rest with the RAF and their desperate effort to win the Battle of
Britain. If they fail, Hitler's next step will be invasion. And as
the scene comes to life before us over the next six months, this
shadow of war will not disappear. From the pub to the church,
struggling single mother to the lady of the manor, the paper boy to
a traumatised bomb disposal volunteer, this superb jewel of a novel
portrays a community of people and weaves together their stories
with passion, betrayal, intrigue and suspense. There Was a Time is
a triumph of the storyteller's art. This edition includes a new
Author's Note and additional illustrations by the author.
THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 'Magnificent' Sunday Times
'Gripping... the twists and intrigue keep coming' Observer 'As
ever, Furst vividly evokes a sense of time and place' Mail on
Sunday (Must-Read Books of the Year) Occupied Paris, 1942. In the
dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are
everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly
to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the
Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting
novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a
military weapon - one that might have important information for the
Allied forces - and Ricard realizes he must try to get it into the
hands of members of the resistance network. As he finds himself
drawn deeper and deeper into anti-German efforts, Ricard travels
deep into enemy territory and along the escape routes of
underground resistance safe houses, spying on Nazi maneuvers. And
when he meets the mysterious and beautiful Leila, a professional
spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of
France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London. ALAN
FURST - The master of the historical spy novel 'Alan Furst is in a
class of his own' William Boyd 'Furst is an addiction' The Times
'If you are a John le Carre' fan, this is definitely for you' James
Patterson 'Furst's ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is
matchless' Robert Harris 'America's preeminent spy novelist' New
York Times 'Furst never stops astounding me' Tom Hanks 'How I envy
anybody who has not yet discovered Furst's writing' Telegraph
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Voices in the Evening
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Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by D.M. Low; Introduction by Colm Toibin
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After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the
thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the
novel's narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian
life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and
shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find
happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from
the expectations and burdens of her town's history, but the weight
of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the
question: "Why has everything been ruined?"
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Bomber
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Len Deighton
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'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air
campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with
historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for
their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will
never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping
minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four
hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on
the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town
in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals
caught up in the wreckage of war. 'A superbly mobilised tragedy of
the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly'
Spectator
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