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Billy Hopkins' nostalgic novels have captured the imagination of many thousands of readers. Following the story of the Hopkins family, from his mother’s struggles in turn-of-the-century Manchester, through Billy’s own childhood in the city and his own young family’s attempts to start a new life in Africa, they’re full of warm-hearted memories of days gone by.
Now Billy’s father Tommy takes centre stage in Tommy’s World, a warm-hearted and nostalgic novel set at the turn of the nineteenth-to-twentieth century. With charm, warmth and humour, Billy Hopkins vividly evokes the tragic, and always touching story of his beloved dad. Tommy’s World gives the reader a nostalgic glimpse of a time almost forgotten, and of people who knew how to make the best of what little they had.
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From the well-loved author comes an epic historical saga - a captivating tale of the power of love, friendship...and betrayal.
Despite losing her mother at a young age, Sassy has grown up surrounded by love: although poor, she is happy. So Sassy is devastated when her father marries wealthy widow Elizabeth Bonner. Social climber Elizabeth despairs of a step-daughter who is more at ease with servants than those above stairs, and is jealous of Sassy’s growing beauty which threatens to outshine her own daughter.
Unwelcome and out of place in this unfamiliar world, Sassy often escapes to her old home on Tuttle Hill and the company of her childhood friends, brothers Thomas and Jack Mallabone. But the trio’s bond is threatened by the consequences of her blind adoration for wayward Thomas, much to the dismay of Jack, who has long worshipped Sassy in secret...
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Barbara Nadel's new Turkish crime novel sees Inspector Ikmen tackling a complex case of organised crime in London.
When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process, Istanbul's Inspector Çetin Ikmen is injured. Documents found in the factory lead the authorities in both Istanbul and London to believe that a terrorist attack, in part orchestrated from the Tarlabasi factory, is about to be enacted in the British capital. Ikmen goes undercover amongst the Turkish community of North London, although what he uncovers there is certainly not what his British colleagues were expecting...
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Sacred Treason is the first novel from award winning historian Dr Ian Mortimer. Perfect for fans of CJ Sansom, Sacred Treason is a fast-paced historical thriller that combines true events with fiction whilst vividly bringing to life the turbulence and turmoil of sixteenth-century London. Brimming with conflict, intrigue and murder, the novel centres on the discovery and concealment of a manuscript which doubts the legitimacy of Queen Elizabeth the First.
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Lovers are torn apart in World War Two and a mother and daughter separated by guilt and shame in a stunning new novel from the author of DANCE WITH WINGS.
When the Second World War breaks out, Carrie Chapman rebels against her controlling husband to work at a local hospital. Amidst the chaos of the Bristol blitz, Carrie finds herself falling in love with a young doctor, Dev. Carrie's willing to defy convention and leave her stifling marriage for Dev, but one summer evening, horrific events change Carrie’s life for ever. Since that night, for forty years, Carrie's beloved daughter, Gillian, has refused to see or speak to her. Now, someone is digging into the past. Will Carrie break her long silence and, if she does, will Gillian finally be able to forgive?
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An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era.
When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces her intention to visit the elderly Maddie, Maddie recognises her last chance to unburden herself of a story that has gnawed at her for sixty years. For Maddie, rather like the butterfly cabinet she keeps safely under lock and key, has for too long guarded a secret: that of the day a four-year-old girl died at the big house where she worked as a nanny. Finally, Maddie knows, Anna is ready to hear what happened. As Maddie's mind drifts back through the years, so too is revealed the story of Charlotte's mother, Harriet Ormond. A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet's great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.
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