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The War Widow

Lorna Gray

The War Widow

While the bells of a Royal Wedding peel out to the fading echoes of war, danger stalks the coastline of Wales…Wales, 1947Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one believes she is being pursued by two violent men demanding answers she cannot give. Not the police, not the doctors, and not the guests at the Aberystwyth hotel she has come to in an...

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Lorna Gray

The Antique Dealer’s Daughter

Lorna Gray

The Antique Dealer’s Daughter

‘An original, authentic period mystery that keeps you guessing, with a strong female protagonist’ Jane Hunt Book ReviewsThe Cotswolds, Summer, 1947 In the aftermath of war, Emily Sutton struggles to find her place in a world irrevocably changed by conflict. When she refuses to follow tradition and join her father’s antiques business – or get married – her parents send her for an ‘improving’ stay with her spinster cousin in the Cotswolds. But Emily arrives to find her cousin’s cottage empty and a...

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Lorna Gray

Female Snipers

Greg Pius

Female Snipers

This is the third book in the SNIPER saga! It is now over six years since the civil war had started in Australia. Many people had died including the young and innocent. Freya Hill and Doctor Roman Ruffe were now dead and buried. Also not so young but still innocent bystanders have died in many atrocities during this civil war. Mary Feelgood was killed along with many other in a train bombing. One of Australia's greatest ever sporting heroes was shot dead for his defiance of state terrorism....

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Greg Pius

Tropic Fury

Jeff Sutton

Tropic Fury

Joe Stark – U. S. Naval Intelligence Agent – knew he’d have his hands full. There were miles of pipeline, oil wells and refineries to be wired and charged with dynamite so they could be blown to hell-and-gone when zero hour came; natives to be kept from spooking and running away; and death lurking around every corner.<P> In the meantime, there was SELINDA, boldly aggressive and acutely possessive; YOSHI, doll-like and fragile, who offered herself for reasons of her own; and SUZANNE who...

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Jeff Sutton

The Most Important Thing

David Gross

The Most Important Thing

In The Most Important Thing, author David Gross parlays his own father’s life history into a moving ﬁctional narrative about a young man’s journey from a Kentucky rural homestead to life as a soldier in the Korean War. After Bradley Gross decides to enlist in the U.S. Army at the tender age of eighteen, the beneﬁts of his decision seem endless—seeing the world, having grand adventures, and receiving bigger paychecks. However, it’s only amidst the danger, adventure, and perils of battle that he...

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David Gross

The Texas Gun Club

Mark Bowlin

The Texas Gun Club

The Texas Gun Club is author Mark Bowlin's award-winning debut novel, and the first book in The Texas Gun Club series. It is the story of cousins Perkin Berger and Sam Taft's journey from south Texas to the distant shores of wartime Italy. Sam Taft is a rancher, fiercely devoted to his wife Margaret, and intent on surviving the war and returning to Texas. Each skirmish, every battle, is one step closer to home. His cousin Perkin Berger is a student of history at the University of Texas...

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Mark Bowlin

О тех годах, растаявших в дыму. 194...

Ирина Ильфант

О тех годах, растаявших в дыму. 1941—1945

В этой книге читатель узнает все о Великой Отечественной войне. Как она началась, как погибали люди в этой страшной войне. Сколько пришлось выстрадать народу, чтобы дожить до Дня Победы! Как ковалась эта Великая Победа! Книга создана по воспоминаниям участника битв. Имена героев вымышлены. Совпадения могут быть случайны. Эпиграф написан фронтовым поэтом.

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Ирина Ильфант

And God Created the Au Pair

Pascale Smets

And God Created the Au Pair

Picture the perfect family…Now forget it & read this.An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters.When your family snapshots resemble NSPCC ads and it takes a quick-witted au pair to prevent your guests from burning alive, you have well and truly arrived in motherhood…Charlotte and Nell are sisters who live thousands of miles apart, each coping, or rather not coping, with the incalculable demands of motherhood. The daily...

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Pascale Smets

Goodbye for Now: A breathtaking his...

M.J. Hollows

Goodbye for Now: A breathtaking historical debut

Two brothers, only one survives. As Europe is torn apart by war, two brothers fight very different battles, and both could lose everything… While George has always been the brother to rush towards the action, fast becoming a boy-soldier when war breaks out, Joe thinks differently. Refusing to fight, Joe stays behind as a conscientious objector battling against the propaganda.On the Western front, George soon discovers that war is not the great adventure he was led to believe. Surrounded by mud,...

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M.J. Hollows

London Belles

Annie Groves

London Belles

London Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.United by chance, bound together in times of needWhen tragedy strikes, Olive is forced to seek lodgers. Three girls come knocking at her door, each in need of a roof over their heads.Sally has left Liverpool to work as a nurse in London and when...

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Annie Groves

The Secret Orphan

Glynis Peters

The Secret Orphan

Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved … but at what cost?This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of Orphan Train and The Secret WifeAs the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor...

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Glynis Peters

The Last Kestrel

Jill McGivering

The Last Kestrel

Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival.Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan 's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil. In her search for justice in a land ravaged by death and destruction, she uncovers disturbing truths.Hasina, forced by tradition into the role of wife and mother, lives in a village which is taken by British Forces. Her only son, Aref, is part of a network of...

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Jill McGivering

The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew

Cristina Odone

The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew

Harriet Carew is the endearing heroine of Cristina Odone's popular weekly 'Daily Telegraph' column, 'Posh But Poor'. Based on the character from the column, 'The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew' is the story of her struggle to juggle family life, work and money.Meet Harriet Carew, mother of three and juggler of work, home and family. Harriet only wants to do her best for her husband Guy, her children, and herself. But while their friends flourish, and other parents look on pityingly, the Carews are...

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Cristina Odone

Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with B...

Sean Rayment

Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit

'Afghanistan is just like Iraq – hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth – Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Bomb Hunters are up against the Improvised Explosive Device – the IED – the deadly homemade bombs planted by the Taliban. Hard to detect and easy to trigger, an...

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Sean Rayment

Królestwo

Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...

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Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

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Szczepan Twardoch

Goodbye Lullaby

Jan Murray

Goodbye Lullaby

A little boy lost. A country at war. A promise made long ago that cannot be forgotten. As a sixteen-year-old in the Fifties, Miki Patrick is forced to surrender her baby son. It's now 1971 and the anti-war activist with a price on her head risks her freedom to find her somewhere child and keep him out of an unrighteous war. The drama played over two decades revolves around the feud between Miki and her best friend since childhood, the whip-smart, potty-mouthed Jude Brenner. The troubled...

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Jan Murray

The Map Of Honour

Max Carmichael

The Map Of Honour

In 1914 men of colour were expressly forbidden from joining the Australian Imperial Force but a number like Aboriginal man Robert Green, enlisted anyway. Deployed to Gallipoli, Green becomes a skilled sniper earning fame as «Killer Green», a nickname he deplores. As the campaign progresses Green's skills and intelligence are recognised by Brigadier John Monash. Monash employs Green to good effect, and protects him from military justice when Green assaults an officer who was unnecessarily...

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Max Carmichael

Manipulation

D.K. Wilde

Manipulation

Wade Ross, Aboriginal, ex Australian SAS had been on 'Walkabout' when two assassins tried to take him down. Returning to civilisation he learns they are also hunting his new girlfriend. His search for answers uncovers a web of intrigue that includes the multiple personality sister of ex US Vice President Daniel Cooper to a group of satanic ritualistic billionaires. As those close to him start to get hurt the hunt becomes revenge. A fast paced international thriller that transports...

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D.K. Wilde

Pacific Standoff (Periscope #1)

Richard Deming

Pacific Standoff (Periscope #1)

After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back. With the nucleus of their battleship and carrier fleet destroyed, they had to rely on the much-scorned submarines of the Silent Service. <P> Jack McCrary, like his comrades in the submarine service, was determined not to let them down. In his battered «pig boat,» the 'Manta,' he led an ocean-wide attack on Japanese freighters and battleships that held the vaunted Imperial Navy to a...

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Richard Deming

Warhost of Vastmark

Janny Wurts

Warhost of Vastmark

Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict.Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the...

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Janny Wurts

Fugitive Prince: First Book of The...

Janny Wurts

Fugitive Prince: First Book of The Alliance of Light

Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fourth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy.The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause, and loathes the other for opposing it…Lysaer, Prince of the Light – a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine power to safeguard his people from an enemy he is...

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Janny Wurts

Curse of the Mistwraith

Janny Wurts

Curse of the Mistwraith

The stunning first volume in Janny Wurts’s epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity.The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith’s stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light.Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than...

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Janny Wurts

Stealing Into Winter

Graeme Talboys K.

Stealing Into Winter

A breathtaking tale of adventure, survival and loyalty.When the thief Jeniche finds her prison cell collapsing around her, she knows it is not going to be a good day.Certainly, the last thing she wanted once she escaped was to become involved with a group of monks and nuns being hunted by the Occassan soldiers who have invaded the city. Nor did she want to help the group flee by being their guide through the desert and mountains. Unfortunately, Jeniche’s skills are their only hope of making it...

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Graeme Talboys K.

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