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Taking a job in a munitions factory during the first World War, Lizzie Kershaw finds independence from her abusive soldier husband and the promise of a new love, which is compromised by her husband's impending return.

A young priest with problems between the sacred and the profane.

Italian reading of classic - Jane Eyre

An action packed novel of the adventures, triumphs and tragedies of Sean Courtney in 19th century South Africa.

The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old hostility.

The story of an African American family held together with a mother's grit and monumental courage.

sabella walked right into my first scene in Singapore. I hadn't worked out much about her when I started, but she showed me clearly what she was like. Singapore in the 1860s is exotic and yet terrifying for a penniless Englishwoman, alone and vulnerable after her mother's death. Too pretty to obtain a governess's job, Isabella accepts an offer from a Chinese merchant, Mr Lee, to teach him English and live with his family. Two years later Bram Deagan arrives in Singapore, determined to make his fortune as a trader.

Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool after the birth.

Film tie-in edtion of this magnificent tale of rivalry and jealousy set in the volatile court of King Henry VIII. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens and the course of English history is irrevocably altered.

This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, fourteen year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from the coast where the air is fresh; unlike Ruby's home in Cradle Cross, its factory furnaces pumping and filthy slits of canal water sending up a stink. Isa is on the hunt for a missing person, and Ruby is eager to help, convinced she will be repaid with an adventure at sea.