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Having fallen pregnant and married a man she didn't love, only to miscarry and lose her husband in an accident, young working-class widow NELL POTTER is starting over. In Hazelbury, she meets injured squadron leader Max, and the two share a kiss at the summer fete. But when a new group of injured servicemen arrive at the village hospital, Nell is horrified to discover amongst them her late husband's brother, who reveals her secrets to all. Will Victoria and Beatrice stick by her when they learn the truth? And will Max forgive her for lying to him?
After losing her fiance and brothers in the Great War, and with her family's wealth gone, Beatrice must make her own living against her mother's disapproval. Fiercely independent, she dreams of becoming a headmistress one day. When a nearby country house is requisitioned for use as a military hospital, she volunteers to help and works alongside David, the village doctor. Drawn to him, Beatrice has loved and lost once and her heart is buried with her fiance in France. Yet when she kisses him at the Christmas party, she knows she has already fallen for him. Can Beatrice still achieve her career dreams as a doctor's wife? And when David is called up to serve in the EMS in London, is she set to lose another fiance?
In summer 1939, Canadian-born teacher, Victoria McKaye, takes up a new position at a London school, only to shorty coordinate the evacuation to the countryside with standoffish spinster Beatrice and young, quiet Nell. Arriving in the village of Hazelbury, Victoria sorts out billets for her young charges and meets Louis Granger, a naval officer. But why isn't a sailor based nearer the sea, and why is he meeting with foreign men in secret locales? When she confronts Louis, he admits he''s working for the British government and recruits Victoria to help. Drawn into a clandestine world, everything comes to a head when her work helps foil a Nazi plot. Yet the military police have never heard of Louis - can she trust the man she''s grown to love?
Written with quick wit and academic rigour, Whores, Hussies and Harlots is a bold new feminist history from Katie Charlwood, host of the Who Did What Now? Podcast
The third novel in a compelling new trilogy from Angus Donald, inspired by a true story about an English Templar knight who joined the Mongol horde of Genghis Khan.
A mystery body washes up under Teignmouth Pier. Jan Talantire discovers, in her investigations, that the case may have a sinister link to her misconduct allegations against Commander Brent West.
TAKEN PRISONER!Late in the Second World War Biggles and his team are in Malaya, operating a secret commando mission under the nose of the Japanese occupiers. Algy is captured after his plane goes down over the Indian Ocean but Biggles will not abandon him and a rescue plan is put into action...Join cult hero and flying ace, Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth on another action packed adventure!
Seven missing planes and a compromised air-route... Sounds like a job for Biggles!Mid-way through the Second World War, there has been suspicious activity along a vital British air corridor between the West coast of Africa and the Middle East. Aircraft have been disappearing with no explanation; urgent stores, dispatches and important officials have failed to arrive at their destinations.Something must be interfering with this vital route, and the British Government knows just who to send to investigate the mystery: Biggles and his squadron set out for the desert.However, they soon discover that this is no quick fix. A German squadron located in the desert presents an unexpected threat, and Biggles finds himself in peril once again...Join Captain James Bigglesworth to solve a wartime mystery...
Biggles protects a secret message!Following a bad bout of fever, Biggles is taking it easy. His doctor has advised him that a sea voyage will do him good, and so he is relaxing aboard the S.S. Stavritos bound for Athens, with Algy and Ginger for company.It is not all smooth sailing, however. Disaster occurs when a fighter plane attacks and crashes into the deck, sinking the ship and forcing everyone on board to swim to safety.Exhausted but alive, Biggles and the gang make it to the shore of Barcelona - but they have swapped the frying pan for the fire. A chance encounter with a British intelligence agent, a hunchbacked assassin and a mysterious coded document lands them in a web of espionage.With enemies at every turn, can Biggles, Algy and Ginger make it back to England alive, and keep the document from falling into the wrong hands?Amidst the Spanish Civil War, Biggles must face his most dangerous mission yet!
A mysterious black aeroplane... and a dastardly plot.Forced down by thick fog, Biggles and Algy cut short a pleasure flight and land on a river in Norfolk to wait out the weather. Exploring the banks, they stumble across a wartime pillbox with papers written in German hidden inside! Shortly afterwards, a massive plane - painted black to camouflage it against the night sky - sets down on the water with a roar.Biggles investigates, boarding the craft to find it is a bomber of immense proportions. He quickly finds himself in trouble when, becoming trapped inside one of the plane's compartments, he feels it take off with him still inside!Who is the mysterious 'Blackbeard'? And why is he making secretive landings on the English coast? Biggles and Algy - and introducing 'Ginger' Hebblethwaite for the first time - must find out...Britain is under threat, and our heroes will answer her call.
If you're not with them... you're against them.Oxford, 1883. Young men are being found bound, gagged and hooded at the gates of their colleges in the small hours. Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow, is asked by the senior proctor to investigate. But matters of sexual purity are dangerous, as it lays Basil open to unwelcome scrutiny of his own private life. Meanwhile, an undergraduate has been imprisoned on false charges, and secures the services of young academic and budding journalist, Non Vaughan, to clear her name. The uncovering by Basil of a secret society, The Venatores, and the murder of a student, cause Non and Basil to join forces. But is justice possible in a world so unjust and dangerous?A scintillating historical mystery from the author of CWA Historical Dagger shorlisted A Bitter Remedy. Praise for the Oxford Mysteries series'An excellent historical mystery dripping with atmosphere that exposes the chauvinism, misogyny and bigotry of late Victorian England' The Times'Real figures from history rub shoulders with those invented by Hawkins - and her inventiveness is prodigal' Financial Times'Fearlessly tackles taboo attitudes of the era, taking aim at misogyny, homophobia, and sexual politics. An excellent addition to the historical mystery canon. Marvellous!' Vaseem Khan'Brilliantly researched, rich in atmosphere and with two likeable and intriguing protagonists at the centre' Philip Gwynne Jones
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