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Gail has lived in council houses all her life - not as bad as a large orphanage but even so...However, she has a skill in gymnastics and through it she feels she can, and must, succeed.

A young Welsh clerk arrives at the seaside town of Penmadoc to work in the local bank.

A poignant story of an autumn love affair. Owen returns to Britain after 30 years in the East and meets again the woman he had once loved.

A tale of the glittering promise of the early mining towns of America's West. Val and Grita Redway head West to find their fortune and their destiny.

Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

The handsome Earl of Droxford relished all the privileges of being wealthy - and a bachelor. Now, because of King William's decree, he must be married within a month.

Contemporary saga depicting the terrible consequences of obsessional love and the happiness which can come from eventual maturity.

The story of the great family, the Counts of Anjou, who became kings of England and were known as the Plantagenets.

A detailed account of one of the greatest convoy battles of World War Two, following hard on the disaster of Convoy PQ17.

More than 30 years of research and study have produced this fascinating book ... richly anecdotal.

The New York State Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge, a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and spiralling staircases.

A story of aborigines, their living conditions, their relationship with white people, all set in the North West Australia but dealing primarily with the history of Coonardoo, the heroine.

Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech tree which shades the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown.

Clare Ashland is a woman with the world at her feet - she's beautiful, at the top of her career ladder, with an enviable London lifestyle and plenty of admirers.

Mr Montague Cork, and elderly insurance man, is looking forward to a quiet fishing holiday.