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The brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling
Goodwill House series.August 1940 As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna
Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land
girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie. Sally, a feisty blonde from the
East End, has never seen a cow before, but she's desperate to
escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours
are long and the work hard, Sal quickly becomes good friends with
the other girls Daphne and Charlie and enjoys life at Goodwill
House. Until Dennis reappears threatening to drag her back to
London. Sal fears her life as a land girl is over, just as she
finally felt worthy. But Lady Joanna has other ideas and a plan to
keep Sal safe and doing the job she loves. Don't miss the next
heart-breaking instalment in Fenella J. Miller's beautiful Goodwill
House series. Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Curl up in a chair
with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another
time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and
setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain.
A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton
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Shell-Shock
(Hardcover)
Adelbert Scholtz
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R1,153
R976
Discovery Miles 9 760
Save R177 (15%)
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The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists.
The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.
In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.
The next thrilling adventure, all NEW from MJ Porter Icel is a lone
wolf no more... Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and
acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman AElfstan's warrior band, Icel
continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the
Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and
Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia
is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia's only enemy. An
unknown danger lurks in the form of merciless Viking raiders, who
set their sights on infiltrating the waterways of the traitorous
breakaway kingdom of the East Angles, within touching distance of
Mercia's eastern borders. Icel must journey to the kingdom of the
East Angles and unite against a common enemy to ensure Mercia's
hard-won freedom prevails. Praise for MJ Porter 'Immediate and
personal' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'No lover of Dark Age
warfare is going to be disappointed. Personal, real, fascinating
and satisfying.' S.J.A. Turney 'If you love history, fiction,
adventure and great stories - You won't regret it!" Eric Schumacher
'MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age
within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' Bestselling
author Matthew Harffy 'Refreshing... I was reluctant to put the
book down' Historical Novel Society Readers are spell-bound 'So
real I felt I was there!... A page-turner' Reader review 'Wonderful
to read and hard to put down' Reader review 'I found the pages
flying by... A great book' Reader review
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