Published By: RiderPages: 320Released On: 08/06/2023 When five-year-old Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, she soon struck up a friendship with a precocious, outspoken and fun-loving girl named Anne Frank. For several blissful years, the girls were inseparable, enjoying carefree childhood games and sleepovers in their neighbourhood of Rivierenbuurt.Then,Continue reading “My Friend Anne Frank – Hannah Pick-Goslar with Dina Kraft”
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Mindfulness in Baking: Meditations on Bakes & Calm – Julia Ponsonby
Published By: Leaping Hare PressPages: 144Released On: 15/06/2023 The Art of Mindful Baking is a delightful insight into how the act of baking is a practical meditation by its very nature. Julia Ponsonby, head of food at Schumacher College, looks at what it means to use our hands and why kneading promotes wellbeing, and explores theContinue reading “Mindfulness in Baking: Meditations on Bakes & Calm – Julia Ponsonby”
The Lost Daughters of Ukraine – Erin Litteken
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 420Released On: 24/04/2023 Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin’s purges, and war looms once more on the horizon. Vika lives in fear for her children. She and her sister survivedContinue reading “The Lost Daughters of Ukraine – Erin Litteken”
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Small Pain – Victoria MacKenzie
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 176Released On: 19/01/2023 In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband’sContinue reading “For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Small Pain – Victoria MacKenzie”
Lady MacBethad – Isabelle Schuler
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 368Released On: 02/03/2023 Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance.She will be Queen. Whatever it takes… Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, as a child it is prophesied that one day Gruoch will be queen of Alba. When she is betrothed to Duncan, heir elect, this appears to confirm the prophecy.Continue reading “Lady MacBethad – Isabelle Schuler”
Weyward – Emilia Hart
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 384Released On: 02/02/2023 Kate, 2019Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. Violet, 1942Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing trees than inContinue reading “Weyward – Emilia Hart”
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Published By: VintagePages: 224Released On: 03/01/1996Translated By: Brian Murdoch In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing theContinue reading “All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque”
The Darlings of the Asylum – Noel O’Reilly
Published By: HQPages: 384Released On: 08/12/2022 In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring does not want to marry. She longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms. When her scheming mother secures a desirable marriage proposal from an eligible Brighton gentleman for her, Violet protests.Continue reading “The Darlings of the Asylum – Noel O’Reilly”
The Secret of Matterdale Hall – Marianne Ratcliffe
Published By: Bellows PressPages: 380Released On: 15/11/2022 Susan Mottram lives an idyllic existence until her eighteenth birthday, when her father’s sudden death plunges the family into penury. To support her mother and younger sister, Susan takes employment as a teacher at a remote Yorkshire boarding school, Matterdale Hall, owned by the radical Dr. Claybourn andContinue reading “The Secret of Matterdale Hall – Marianne Ratcliffe”
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia – Mark Piesing
Published By: MarinerPages: 448Released On: 13/10/2022 The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin ran passenger serviceContinue reading “N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia – Mark Piesing”
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