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The sixth heartwarming instalment in the Cornish Girls saga series perfect for fans of Ginny Bell and Elaine Everest Will the Cornish girls come out on top once the war is finally over? Bude, Cornwall 1944. Even in Cornwall, the war shows no signs of slowing… When tragic circumstances force...

Heartwarming and nostalgic fiction from the best selling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk. It’s 1943 and the district nurses have two new recruits… As the country ramps up for D-Day, the new nurses getting to know their patients on their patch in London’s East End. Lily is...

1918. The Great War is over, and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall - to meet a family that would once have been hers. But they must never discover her secret... 2020. Caroline has spent years trying to uncover the lies buried in her family history. And once she arrives in Cornwall, the truth finally seems to be in reach. Except with storm clouds gathering on the horizon, Caroline soon learns that some secrets are best left hidden....

The most ambitious of three sisters, Lorraine ‘Raine’ Linfoot always dreamed of becoming a pilot. As a spirited 17-year-old, she persuades her hero Doug Williams to teach her to fly. When war breaks out in 1939, Raine is determined to put her skills to good use. She enlists in the Air Transport Auxiliary, becoming one of a handful of brave female pilots flying fighter planes to the men on the front line. Raine embraces the challenges of the job, despite its perils.

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from...

Eine bitterbös-humorvolle Familiensaga: Um sich bei der Erzählung über die eigenen Familienverhältnisse nicht in Lügen zu verstricken, lässt Irene Dische lieber ihre resolute Großmutter Elisabeth Rother, genannt "Mops", zu Wort kommen. Und schnell wird klar, dass Großmama Elisabeth, für die ihr jüdischer Mann zum Katholizismus konvertierte, kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt. Eine komplexe Saga über eine deutsch-amerikanische, jüdisch-katholische Familie und ihre eigenwilligen Familienmitglieder.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double...

Read by Colin Mace and Emma Spurgin Hussey, featuring the voice of the author, China Miéville. From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making – a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and...

In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, and one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public-spirited, proud inheritors of the German Enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt—if they can—flee or try to fight.

Set in 1949 Paris, Slim Moran runs the Pitchipoi Agency with her Nazi Hunter boyfriend, Daniel. Their specialty: to find those lost in the last war. After a couple of easy cases, business has ground to halt, and Daniel has just gone on another manhunt this time to find the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Slim is bored until a British spymistress asks her to find a missing woman spy long presumed dead.

To solve a double murder in Cuba, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana’s underworld and British intelligence, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R...

THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB AND A SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READS PICK 2025 A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WAR. AN AFFAIR ON THE EDGE OF SCANDAL. Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is...

John Hannay, after surviving the actions of the Black Stone, the cabal of German spies from The 39 Steps, is now a soldier fighting in France during WW1. He receives a message from Bullivant, Head of the Foreign Office and his old ally from before the war. From there he and others are embroiled...

Im Sommer 1935 folgt die fünfundzwanzigjährige Grete ihrem Mann und zieht mit den kleinen Zwillingen in den neu gegründeten Hermann-Göring-Koog auf der Halbinsel Eiderstedt. Die Weite der Nordseeküste ist atemberaubend - und lebensgefährlich. Grete kämpft gegen den schweren, salzigen Boden, gegen Sturmfluten und gegen die Einsamkeit, die sie an den Rand ihrer Kräfte bringt. Doch noch schwerer wiegt eine Entscheidung, die sie trifft, um ihre Tochter zu schützen...

All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright...

A "remarkable novel of family and love during a time of war,"* Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun follows a soul-searching young woman who takes a leap of faith and discovers a place to call home and someone to share her heart. England, 1941. The world is at war. London is under siege as the...

Una impactante inmersión en la Alemania nazi narrada desde el punto de vista de las mujeres. «Una novela que tiene la fuerza de un gran documental.» Le Figaro Littéraire «Fascinante.» France Culture «Al captar con gran fidelidad la trágica humanidad de sus personajes, en la novela...

Noviembre de 1942, el mundo arde en llamas y España, aún arrasada y en plena represión, es un nido de espías. Carlos Lombardi, de nuevo en Madrid, sobrevive como puede con su precaria agencia de detectives. No puede permitirse el lujo de rechazar ningún trabajo por lo que tiene que...