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1936. Civil war in Spain. A world on the brink of chaos . . . 21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire - not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection

In 1938 Mary, a young Englishwoman in London meets Josef, an anti-Nazi refugee who had escaped from Austria. They fall in love.

For the Bennett family, the introduction of military conscription in January, 1916 is the moment of truth. Robert, newly returned from America, declines to enlist in defiance of the Military Service Act, ...

COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS - A heartwarming yet gritty novel inspired by women working at the Cadbury chocolate factory in Bournville during World War One.

All-Colour, Hard Cover Edition ---- Feeling life is slipping him by, an American agriculturalist heads to Vietnam to try and make a difference in the lives of the people as part of President Johnson's 'Hearts and Minds' campaign.

Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures.

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman - Mary Tyrell - is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child.

Blood and Roses tells the story of Margaret of Anjou (1430-82), wife of Henry VI and a key protagonist in the Wars of the Roses. This is a feminist revision of a woman frequently imagined only as the shadowy figure demonised by Shakespeare...