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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A touching story of village life in the heart of Wales Nelly Luke is a Cockney born and bred, but after thirteen years in Hen Carw Parc, Dirty Nelly and her eccentric ways are as much part of village life as its most senior citizen, old Grandad Owen. But not even Nelly, with her shrewd eye on village goings-on, can predict the surprises in store for her family and friends as the year 1954 opens in the tranquil Welsh valley. For the new year brings...
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the first Pendragon Island saga, the much-loved Grace Thompson takes us on a nostalgic trip to a beautiful Welsh seaside town -- then uncovers its darkest secrets. Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays, with a stretch of clean golden sand and a glorious funfair nearby. Yet for one local family, the happy holiday atmosphere risks becoming a cruel joke, as the unusually-named Lewis Lewis's affair with close friend Nia Martin threatens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, rich, and popular: the Weston Girls seem to have it all ... until they fall in love with the wrong men The Weston family have always pinned their hopes for creating a dynasty on their glamorous granddaughters. But Joan and Megan -- confident and eligible though they are -- regularly set tongues wagging with their outrageous behaviour. Their grandmother Gladys decides she must organise a party to find them suitable husbands -- and that's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The classic wartime sagas, now in a special omnibus edition
Read Grace Thompson's delightful Holidays at Home series, now in one volume!
These heartwarming sagas follow the inhabitants of St David's Wells, a small Welsh seaside town, charting the highs and lows they experience during the Second World War. From engagements to tragic accidents, ice-creams to utter deprivation, this bestselling series from the much-loved author Grace Thompson will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A delightful post-war saga set in a charming Welsh town The little Welsh village of Hen Carw Parc -- the old deer park -- seems to be an island of rural tranquility. But the inhabitants are a lively and varied community -- and none more so than Nelly Luke, the cheerful Cockney widow who for many years has made the ramshackle cottage on the village outskirts her cosy, if unconventional, home. Although her eccentric lifestyle is the despair of her social-climbing...
6) Family Pride
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
All's fair in love, war, and baking A delightful standalone Grace Thompson saga set during World War II Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street, in the same Welsh seaside town, is the rival bakery: Green's. As Gilly's grandfather falls ill, and facing the outbreak of the Second World War, things look tough for the Jenkins. Amidst the hardship of war they face an unexpected tragedy. Their feud with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The outside world is coming to the Welsh valleys ... The small South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace, a gentle backwater where the rhythms of life flow at a time-honoured pace. But times are changing and, although Nelly Luke and the older villagers stick resolutely to tradition, the younger ones have caught tantalising glimpses of a world beyond their quiet valley. For ambitious Fay Cartwright the lure of a career strains...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, comfort comes from an unlikely place…
Christmas, 1940. As the festive season approaches in a small Welsh village, two friends, Patricia and Vanessa, fall for the same man. Vanessa will stop at nothing to win his affections, but it is Patricia who is successful in finding love.
Yet when tragedy strikes and Patricia has to piece her life back together, she throws herself into revitalising a traditional gelato business, and...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The wonderfully atmospheric follow-up to The Posthorn Inn from bestselling saga writer Grace Thompson
On the wild and restless Welsh coast in the early years of the nineteenth century, illegal smuggling is a necessary evil if the community is to survive. As a year passes, the village must come together to battle against poverty and the Excise men.
But that's not all that goes on beneath the rugged cliffs, and it's the last thing on the mind of...
10) The Posthorn Inn
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A charming historical tale of smuggling, village gossip and romance on the rugged Welsh coast, perfect for fans of Poldark
The enigmatic Barrass delivers post in the village of Mumbles. He works long hours for little pay, and his home is a cold, damp lean-to. But half the young women in the village seem sweet on him, and indeed, three girls claim their babies are his.
Olwen, a local fisherman's daughter, seeks a way out of the drudgery and to prove...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A captivating mystery from the bestselling and much-loved saga writer Grace Thompson
On the last day of her holiday, Rosemary Roberts meets an intriguing American in the foyer of her London hotel. By some extraordinary slice of fortune, Larry Madison-Jones is due to visit the tiny Welsh village where Rosemary lives. But how much of a coincidence is it really?
When Rosemary returns home, her life takes a sinister turn. As she gets closer to the enigmatic...
12) Day Trippers
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A little bit of laughter will always see you through St. David's Wells blossoms in the English tourist trade of the war years. The Castle family runs the rides and stalls, struggling to manage without their absent songs, and amid tragedies and anxieties, there is time for what St David's Wells does best - fun and laughter. The fourth in Grace Thompson's bestselling Holidays at Home series, Day Trippers is a wonderful journey into a seaside town in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Badgers Brook: more than a home, a way of life. A timeless, emotional journey from a beloved writer, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs and Freda Lightfoot. Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can't help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. He's increasingly prone to drink and gambling, and has become strangely secretive. Worried that Ivor's behaviour is putting their growing family at risk,...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An enthralling fourth trip to the house at Badgers Brook sees a young woman facing tension at home and in the office Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency ever since she left school. While happy there, she knows she must carve a career of her own, so lands a job with Cwm Derw's Ace Estate Agency. Soon she discovers her new boss, George Dexter, dislikes her father intensely, though she cannot understand why. Just what is at the root...
15) Maisie's Way
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Wait Till Summer and The House by the Brook, the captivating fourth novel in the Pendragon Island saga series When Masie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island, she causes unrest within more than one family. Underneath the happy surface of this Welsh seaside town, relationships can seem fragile and easily destroyed. When Maisie comes to work for Edward Jenkins at Montague Court,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an enthralling and heart-rending saga, Badgers Brook once again provides sanctuary for a family in need Married life hasn't been easy for Hope Murton -- her mother-in-law, Marjorie, is overbearing and critical, and Hope's husband, Ralph, refuses to stand up for himself. Eventually Hope persuades him to move out and to set up a new home at Badgers Brook with their small son, Davy. Soon they are beset by tragedy when a road accident leaves Ralph...
17) The Tangled Web
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Unraveling the past comes at a price ... Supporting her brother between his spells in prison costs Amanda Clifford more than money. She loses friends and always has to move. But he's the only family she's ever known. Until, that is, she's told that a great aunt has left her a cottage. The only catch: her brother isn't allowed to live there with her. Can she really leave him? When she befriends the cottage's current occupier, her hopes grow. This is...
18) Sophie Street
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The final instalment of Grace Thompson's celebrated Pendragon Island sagas Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married, but Mair, the daughter of the local police constable, does not seem to be the wisest choice. And anyway, she is far more interested in the secretive Carl Rees, who refuses to even be seen with her in public. Elsewhere in Pendragon Island, Jennie Francis has to rethink her life as she is forced to say...
19) False Friends
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an absorbing finale to Grace Thompson's much-admired saga series, Lowri Vaughan is in need of refuge - where better to find it than Badgers Brook? Rumours abound that her father is a fraudster, maybe even a murderer, but while he is indeed locked up, Lowri and her mother know he's an innocent man. Some gossip-seeking townsfolk work on currying Lowri's favour, hoping she will drop her guard. Sorting those who can't be trusted from those that can...
Author
Series
Holidays at home volume 2
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A loving family is the greatest gift In 1940, foreign travel is no longer feasible due to the War, so "holidays at home" enjoy a new lease of life, meaning business is booming for Piper's Café at St David's Wells. However, not everyone in the family-run business is as happy as they seem. Beth Castle has known Freddy Clements her entire life, and they are certain to become engaged any day now. But war changes everything, and with Freddy and her brothers...
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