Haunted by his experiences in World War I, Tom Birkin accepts a job restoring a medieval mural in a church in Yorkshire. It is here that he falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife and learns to live again....more details Format:CD
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Shelagh Noden
ISBN:9780753185469
Meg Fraser, widowed in the early weeks of World War I, has vowed to preserve the family farm for her son, Will, and daughter, Isobel; but has made a dangerous enemy in neighbor Dod Grant...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Patricia Wentworth
ISBN:9780753181232
Hired to investigate the disappearance of the governess of the three Craddock children at Deepe House, Miss Silver assumes the young woman's vacant position. With time running out and the iron-fisted grip of terror taking hold...more details Format:Paperback Pages:335
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Anne Donovan
ISBN:9780753117965
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Center...more details Format:CD
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Laurie Lee
ISBN:9781850896883
Described by H. E. Bates as a prose poem that "flashes back and winks like a prism," this loving and intimate record of childhood and growing up in a remote Cotswold village is a testament to a vanished world. Laurie Lee draws a picture of an England of silence. Life was hard...more details
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Chris Manby
ISBN:9780753183731
Golf resort heiress Birdie Sederburg's life revolves around how visible she is on the latest celebrity watch biog. Until she (quite literally...more details Format:Paperback Pages:376
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Diney Costeloe
ISBN:9780753183571
London 1937. When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty discovers she is not who she thought she was, her search for her true family leads her to the convent of Our Lady of Mercy in St Croix in northern France. The defeat of France brings German occupation to the village...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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Joyce Dennys
ISBN:9780753186022
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Gemma Fox
ISBN:9780753184363
The heat is on--but can Maggie stand the pace? Maggie Morgan has been longing to find Mr. Right all her life but even she didn't expect him to be delivered to her door...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:360
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Elizabeth Lord
ISBN:9780753149485
London, 1921. Julia Longfield lives on the fringes of the East End, in prosperous Victoria Park. With her brother and two younger sisters, she has known a happy childhood...more details Format:Hardcover
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Henry Allingham
ISBN:9780753182918
Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in World War I and one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In "Kitchener's Last Volunteer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:279
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Ada Leverson
ISBN:9780753185445
This first novel by Ada Leverson (whom Oscar Wilde called "the wittiest woman in the world") is the story of Edith and Bruce Ottley, who live in a very new...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:248
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Dolores Gordon-Smith
ISBN:9780753181812
Midsummer 1923 and Isabelle's parents are celebrating their silver wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus. Isabelle has a dilemma some might envy: two men are in love with her. But her romantic difficulties are quickly forgotten when tragedy occurs. One of the guests apparently commits suicide at the ball. Jack Haldean believes it's murder...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Carole Llewellyn
ISBN:9780753183991
In 1919, poverty in the mining village where 16-year-old Megan Williams lives forces her to leave her loving family to work as a kitchen maid in Bristol. Her sly cousin Lizzie is already a parlor maid at Redcliffe House and is determined to make things difficult for Megan. But it was never going to be easy for both--upstairs and downstairs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Roberta Grieve
ISBN:9780753183656
Young Dolly Dixon is determined to overcome her illegitimate background and lead a respectable life. She attends evening classes in an attempt to better herself. But when her mother runs off with a lover...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Anne Fine
ISBN:9780753185049
The final straw in the ongoing rivalry between Geraldine and her stepsister comes when Lulu gloatingly gets herself pregnant, much to the silent horror of Geraldine who's been trying to do the same for five years. Anne Fine's spiky...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:252
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Chris Manby
ISBN:9780753149669
Every bride is entitled to some pre-wedding jitters. And what girl wouldn't think twice about marriage when her fiance gets his eyebrows shaved off just in time to look horrendous for the photographs. But what if it's not the ceremony that freaks you out but the happy ever after? Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others for macho...more details Format:Hardcover
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Eliza Graham
ISBN:9780753183717
February 1945. Europe is in ruins and the Red Army is searing its way across Germany. The War is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning. Alix...more details Format:Paperback Pages:408
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Tom Bowling
ISBN:9780753183533
Fishing captain Jean Cotterell is rescued by a French frigate--"The Hortense"--off the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia in May 1794. His fishing vessel has foundered and he is the sole survivor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Robin Jenkins
ISBN:9780753183755
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charles Forbes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Will Kingdom
ISBN:9780753146736
Life isn't easy for Detective Inspector Bobby Maiden. Death is even harder. When Maiden is revived in hospital after dying in a hit and run incident...more details Format:Hardcover
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Norah Lofts
ISBN:9780753183311
"All eyes and hair" a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:544
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Mari Strachan
ISBN:9780753184905
This debut novel by a 62-year-old Welsh novelist tells a story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of 12-year-old Gwenni, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:372
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Peter Kerr
ISBN:9780753183151
Doogie O'Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student, applies for a gap-year job as a tour rep in Africa, where he also hopes to find time to study the wildlife. Instead...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344
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Philip Pullman
ISBN:9780753186381
- Pullman's acclaimed trilogy, His Dark Materials, sold tens of millions of copies and was awarded the Carnegie Medal, The Guardian Children's Book Award...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:175
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Susan Wooldridge
ISBN:9780753184943
March 1933. The luxury liner SS Etoile sets sail from Southampton for New York and on board is Lily Sutton - a fragile but determined woman who is seeking to escape the brutality of her failed marriage...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:352
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Susan Sallis
ISBN:9780753184677
After David died, Viv tries to escape her sense of guilt by running, mainly around the nearby lake -- a desolate and deserted place. But through her misery she makes some unexpected friends and...more details Format:Paperback Pages:328
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Denise Robertson
ISBN:9780753184356
Ben Webster appears to have it all - health, wealth, a beautiful wife and a thriving business. In reality, his wife is unfaithful and predators are circling the profitable firm that he heads. And then his beloved grandmother tells him that the family business has been built on the theft of the birthright of three children orphaned during the war. "Find them...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344
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Michael Foss
ISBN:9780753185308
The Road Taken is the narrative of the dramatic life and shocking death of Lew Holle, a complex, fascinating, and ultimately tragic character. The book is based on his memoirs...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:448
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Grace Thompson
ISBN:9780753182710
Faith Pryor has always run away when things become difficult, whether it be from care homes or foster parents. She always lived in the hope she would find the family she had lost during the chaos of the war. Then she ran away from her fiance Matt...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344
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Gladys Mitchell
ISBN:9780753185384
When the vicar's wife discovers that her unmarried housemaid is pregnant, sometime detective and full-time Freudian, Mrs. Bradley, undertakes an unnervingly unorthodox investigation into the mysterious pregnancy....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:292