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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
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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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
A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian
prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was
this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and
amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room
mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a
thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War
nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into
the Italian countryside.
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