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Abandoned at birth, little Mercy Hanley shows a fierce determination few others can match. Her inner fire burns brightly, even in the harsh conditions of turn-of-the-century Birmingham. For behind Mercy's pale and haunting face, there is a mind of steel, as her harsh foster mother, Mrs Gaskin...

Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet, but becomes so hard she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling second-hand clothes...

Now the War is Over is a moving story of post-war hardship and the struggles of a reunited family, featuring characters from Annie Murray's bestselling War Babies. The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel...

It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband Joel and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the back-breaking work and constant childbearing take their toll on...

What could tear the sisters apart? Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago, they long for her every day. Their frightfully protective father keeps the girls close but he can’t protect them forever . . . When a scandal rocks the family, the girls are forced to leave their home...

1940 - Small Heath, in the heart of Birmingham, is facing the darkest days of the war. Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP wardens to do their bit for the Home Front. Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed mother who runs the local pawn shop. At just...

From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of The Bells of Bournville Green, comes Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . . September 1940, Birmingham. While her husband and daughter work at Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her...

From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls, The Bells of Bournville Green and Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, Wartime for the Chocolate Girls is a gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . . April 1941. Almost losing her life in a bomb blast while serving in the...

'A heart-warming and affecting tale.' - Woman's Weekly Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls is the heartfelt and dramatic conclusion to this gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate. 1946: The war might be over, but for the Gilby family there are still battles to be fought at home...

Birmingham, 1858: Dora, a spirited young maid with a vivid imagination, finds solace in the library of the esteemed family she works for. But when a forbidden love leads to a secret that could ruin her, Dora has no choice but to leave the only place that has ever offered her security and...

A powerful investigation into American bureaucracy, how it wastes our time and drives inequality, and how we can make paperwork work for us Nobody likes doing paperwork, and Americans do a lot of it. Filing your taxes and getting a driver’s license is bad enough. Negotiating with your doctor...

Annie Murray's The Pearl Button Girl is book one in the Children of Birmingham series, starting in Victorian Birmingham and following the trials and triumphs of the Fletcher family. Working at the local pearl button factory, Ada Fletcher is doing her best to make ends meet in trying times. When...

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and...

Black Country Orphan is a moving story of the courage and strength of women, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Murray. The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world’s chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a...

Money touches everything — even the stuff you don't expect. Best friends Annie and Zoë talk about Bravo, pop culture, politics, business, and the news of the week, and somehow always find their way back to the dollars and cents underneath it all. Expect deep dives on the Real Housewives economy, their takes on the headlines and current trends in culture, and honest conversations about money that feel more like catching up with your smartest, funniest friends than sitting through a finance lecture. This podcast is about building money consciousness, one messy, hilarious, and enlightening ...

Auf der Flucht vor einer arrangierten Ehe findet Tara Schutz in den starken Armen von Scheich Raif ibn Ansar. Völlig überraschend fühlt sie sich bald schon unwiderstehlich zu dem charismatischen Wüstenkönig hingezogen. Seine tiefe Stimme und der feurige Blick aus seinen dunklen Augen jagen wohlige Schauer über ihren Körper. Unter dem magischen Sternenhimmel von Nahrat lassen Raifs glühende Küsse Tara dahinschmelzen.

Eine tolle Chance: Jacqui darf die spannende Geschichte des Harems von Jazeer schreiben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass sie selbst als Wüstenbraut in den Armen des feurigen Sultans Asim landet – oder doch?

Prinzessin Amelie wollte den sexy Securityboss Lambis Evangelos nie wiedersehen, seit er einst ihre Liebe zurückwies. Aber jetzt hat sie keine Wahl. Nach einem Skandal um ihre Familie ist sie nur auf seinem Luxusanwesen in Griechenland vor den Paparazzi in Sicherheit. Doch Tag und Nacht im...

Wir reden über alles, was uns gerade so beschäftigt. Von random Gedanken bis zu echten Gesprächen übers Leben, Freundschaft und den ganz normalen Wahnsinn. OH, und natürlich Snacks. Snacks? Zwei Besties in verschiedenen Lebenslagen - ehrlich, chaotisch, österreichisch humorvoll und manchmal vielleicht ein bissl z'gscheid. Zwei Gscheidhaferl halt.

Henric snurrar runt i luften, högt, högt upp. Han ser marken och himlen och marken och himlen och sedan … AJ! Henric skadar sig och får åka till det stora sjukhuset. Det är både läskigt och spännande med allt det okända. Doktorn tar kort inuti armen med en röntgenmaskin och Henric...