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Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a world of secrets, can Esme find the courage to be her true self? Happily in love, Esme Colborne is about to marry Richard Trevannion, descendant of one of the oldest families in England. But when Esme learns she is adopted - from a working class family - she cannot allow Richard to marry so far beneath his station. Fleeing the life she knew, a chance encounter leads Esme to work as a 'decoy woman', testing British undercover operatives who may...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Events of the past can undo a lifetime of hopes and dreams ... Twenty years have passed since Maggie settled with Jack in north west England after escaping the Irish Famine. They have overcome hardships to raise a family, but not without heartache along the way. Now, Jack wishes to return to Ireland with their daughter Hannah for a nostalgic visit but Maggie is reluctant to make the trip, not wishing to invoke painful memories and concerned about...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Only she can save herself ... Maggie is sixteen years old and barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish famine. As her mother is on her deathbed, Maggie is pressed to accept a proposal from their neighbour, Jack. With few options beyond marry or starve, Maggie weds Jack and they travel from their home in County Mayo across the sea to seek a better life in north west England. In their new village, food is plentiful and work is available,...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A family's survival depends on their unbreakable bond ... The Sandberg family arrive in England having fled Russia to avoid persecution. It is 1905, and in their new home of Manchester they soon discover that hardships can come in many forms. It's a friendship with their neighbours, the Moritz family, that finally makes them feel at ease. As the two families' become increasingly intertwined, it is eldest son David who finds the culture of his new...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An old secret is about to be uncovered...
Daisy is devastated when her lover, Percy, abandons her. All alone, Daisy is forced by her own mother to give up her baby son for adoption — shortly before she throws Daisy out. War is imminent, and Daisy is evacuated to the Lake District, where she eventually tracks down her black-sheep aunt, Florrie. Together they set up a guest house, and when Daisy meets and falls in love with a young airman, Harry,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
War puts their friendship to the test, but can they unite against their true enemy?
It's 1942 and Gracie is eager to do her bit for the war effort. She joins the Women's Timber Corps, relieved to get away from her quarrelling, interfering parents. Her training leads her to Cornwall where she meets energetic newly-married Lou, and Rosie who is desperate to escape her bully of a brother. The three girls become fast friends and are happy to learn they...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man's personal journey is "wonderful . . A truly exciting novel" ( Orlando Sentinel ). After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an odd inheritance from a man he's never met: a parcel of land in east Texas. With little to lose, he and his wife set off from Kansas City and find themselves in the dusty town of Dane -- where they're met with inexplicable hostility....
Author
Publisher
Publication Consultants
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Armand Spielman had no idea of the overwhelming task before him! It was March 1969 and Armand had accepted a temporary position as a landman for the company that would build the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. His task–acquire the project right-of-way so that crude oil would flow from the oil-producing fields of Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez where it would be shipped to west-coast refineries. Later, realizing the daunting task at hand,...
Author
Series
Publisher
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's February 1942 and the American's have finally joined Britain and its allies. Meanwhile, twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino, like thousands of other women, is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by her unrequited love for Charlie Brogan, who has recently married a woman of questionable reputation, before being shipped out to North Africa with the Eighth Army.
When Francesca...
Author
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
[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...
13) The Weston Girls
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
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The changing lives of three women as their men are sent away to fight Everyone remembered the summer of '39 as golden and strange. Golden because it was the driest on record; strange because people were burrowing holes and roofing them with iron. Waiting for the bombs ... In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband's last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation...
15) Family Pride
Author
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
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...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Fire in His Wake, Spencer Wolff's exuberant debut novel, tells the story of two men swept up in refugee crises of the twenty-first century: Simon, a young employee at the UNHCR in Morocco, and Arès, a Congolese locksmith left for dead in the wake of ethnic violence.
In search of a better future, Arès embarks on an epic journey across northern Africa with Europe as his goal. He reaches Rabat, Morocco, where he joins a desperate community of...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Cast out by her family, she must find a new path... Madeleine Wyndham returns home from her Swiss finishing school to a whirlwind of social engagements and parties and to Hamilton Bramwell , the wealthy young man her parents are determined she will marry. But Madeleine's eye is caught by a young milkman, Freddy and she dreams of running away with him. However, when she finds herself pregnant, Freddy refuses to marry her and Madeleine is forced to...
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...
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