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The Hallmarked Man The Hallmarked Man

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Career of Evil Career of Evil

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Somewhere Only We Know Somewhere Only We Know

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Home Before Dark Home Before Dark

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The Protest The Protest

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What the Night Brings What the Night Brings

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Death of a Diplomat Death of a Diplomat

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The Children of Eve The Children of Eve

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The One You Least Suspect The One You Least Suspect

A gripping, edge-of-your seat thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

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The Margaret Code The Margaret Code

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From London With Love From London With Love

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The House with Nine Locks The House with Nine Locks

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Frankie Frankie

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Storm Child Storm Child

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A Stroke of the Pen A Stroke of the Pen

A truly unmissable collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, read by an all-star cast.

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The Running Grave The Running Grave

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The Swifts The Swifts

Discover the hilarious bestselling mystery adventure perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Lemony Snicket.

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The Last Firefox The Last Firefox

A heartwarming story about family, friendship and finding your inner fire.

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Kiki's Delivery Service Kiki's Delivery Service

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Moondial Moondial

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..

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Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..




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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

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Lynne Francis / Victoria Brazier

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

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London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

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Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..

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For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..




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Jenny Holmes / Janine Birkett

It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on girls from all over the country are signing up to the..

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Jenny Holmes / Colleen Prendergast

Bobbie Fraser Mary Holland and Jean Thornton are Atta Girls - part of the Air Transport Auxiliary te..

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AnneMarie Brear / Dawn Murphy

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

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Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

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Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..




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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

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York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

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Rosie Meddon / Emma Powell

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

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Seána Tinley / Roisin Rankin

Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..

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Nancy Revell / Janine Birkett

Sunderland 1944. As the promise of victory draws closer this Christmas will surely be one to remembe..




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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1941. When Cordelia’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly she can't wait to introduce he..

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

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Kay Brellend / Annie Aldington

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

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AnneMarie Brear / Dawn Murphy

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..




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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

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Fenella J. Miller / Annie Aldington

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

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Anna Jacobs / Nicolette McKenzie

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

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Kay Seeley / Annie Aldington

The close loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves..

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Jenny Holmes / Janine Birkett

Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..




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Nancy Revell / Anne Dover

Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..

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Evie Grace / Colleen Prendergast

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..

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AnneMarie Brear / Caroline Lennon

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

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Millie Gray / Lesley Mackie

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1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..




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Evie Grace / Anne Dover

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..

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Libby Ashworth / Katy Sobey

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

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Kitty Neale / Annie Aldington

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

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Katie Flynn; Judith Saxton / Anne Dover

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

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Kate Thompson / Gina Murray

Stratford 1939: Britain is at war but on the home front keeping up morale and appearances go hand in..




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Grace Thompson / Deryn Edwards

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

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Lizzie Lane / Anne Dover

Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..

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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

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Catherine Cookson / George Bray

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..




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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

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Fenella J. Miller / Annie Aldington

London 1942. Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. ..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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Rosie Clarke / Annie Aldington

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

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Katie Flynn / Julie Maisey

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..




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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

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AnneMarie Brear / Charlotte Strevens

When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..




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Libby Ashworth / Katy Sobey

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

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AnneMarie Brear / Janine Birkett

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

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Grace Thompson / Deryn Edwards

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

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Beryl Matthews / Annie Aldington

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..




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Lyn Andrews / Julie Maisey

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

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June Francis / Julie Maisey

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

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Kay Brellend / Annie Aldington

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..




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Emma Hornby / Nikki Patel

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

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Joanne Clague / Catherine Harvey

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

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Lynne Francis / Annie Aldington

Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..

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Anna Jacobs / Rosalind Lailey

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..




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Milly Adams / Maggie Mash

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

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AnneMarie Brear / Dawn Murphy

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

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Annie Clarke / Patricia Gallimore

October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

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Glenda Young / Hannah Genesius

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

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Rosie Archer / Tamsin Kennard

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..




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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..

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Fiona Ford / Andrew Wincott

London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..

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AnneMarie Brear / Caroline Lennon

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..




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Elizabeth Gill / Julia Barrie

Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

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Fenella J Miller / Emma Powell

September 1942 Having done her duty as an ATS girl Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new chall..

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Kate Thompson / Gina Murray

Stratford 1943. World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls the workers ..

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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1942. A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison's romance with Dr Maitland..




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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

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Ellie Dean / Julie Maisey

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..