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  • Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Cambridgeshire – 1942 As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped. In his heart he longs to fight, like his two brothers, for his king and country but is duty tied to Blackberry Farm. As feelings grow between Artie and Jeanie Salmons, Artie wonders if marriage will help him to finally accept his lot and settle down...
  • Harpers Heroes by Rosie Clarke

    Harpers Heroes by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Welcome to Harpers Emporium and The Mulberry Lane Series.The Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war.Oxford Street, London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days of the war, whilst husband Ben is working all hours for the War Office...
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  • The Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale

    The Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From the USA Today, bestselling author of The Summer House, with over one million copies of her books sold, comes a heartwarming beach read, perfect for fans of Sheila Roberts, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber.After the loss of her fiancé a year ago, event planner Lauren Sutton can’t seem to go on with her choice of career or the life she’d built with her fiancé any longer...
  • Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way...
  • A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world.Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children...
  • Maggie by Charles Martin

    Maggie by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance...
  • This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the prying eyes of its small-minded, cruel-hearted townsfolk, praying for the strength to keep going. She doesn’t stop until she arrives at her childhood home in Short Junction...
  • The Waterfront Lass by AnneMarie Brear

    The Waterfront Lass by AnneMarie Brear

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wakefield 1870On the banks of the River Calder, Meg Taylor struggles to care for her younger siblings and sick mother whilst her father is away working as a boatman on the canals. The slums where they live are rife with disease, and Meg longs for a different life, away from the grinding poverty, but she'll never leave her family...
  • Family Affairs at the Orchard Cottage Hospital by Lizzie Lane

    Family Affairs at the Orchard Cottage Hospital by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Times are changing as secrets unfold…Somerset, 1931 Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital, striving to improve the medical treatments on offer to the community...
  • Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

    Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    "Leave It to Psmith" is a delightful novel that combines humor, romance, and adventure in classic P.G. Wodehouse style. When the charming and resourceful Psmith becomes embroiled in a case of mistaken identity, readers are treated to a series of comical mishaps and romantic escapades...
  • Forgotten on Sunday by Valérie Perrin

    Forgotten on Sunday by Valérie Perrin

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers.Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of her days listening to her residents’ stories...
  • Family Matters at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Family Matters at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The BRAND NEW instalment in Rosie Clarke's Blackberry Farm Series Praise for Rosie 'Brilliant read. Wonderful characters that draw you into Harpers world. Thoroughly enjoyable.' Kitty Neale'A thoroughly enjoyable read.' Reader Review'Another cracking read from Rosie Clarke... I heartily recommend that you read her books.' Reader Review'I love Rosie Clarke's books and this did not disappoint...
  • The Last Blue by Isla Morley

    The Last Blue by Isla Morley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” Isla Morley probes questions of identity, love, and family in her breathtaking new novel.In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored...
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    small town  historical  length-medium
  • Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls: A BRAND NEW instalment in May Ellis' heartfelt wartime saga series for 2024 by May Ellis

    Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls: A BRAND NEW instalment in May Ellis' heartfelt wartime saga series for 2024 by May Ellis

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    1915: As war continues to rage across the Channel, the families of the Somerset village of Street can no longer avoid its long shadow.Workers in the Clarks shoe factory, at the heart of the village, have left for the army in droves, and news from the Front seems to grow darker by the day.When life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate receive the news they had been fearing, all hope seems lost...
  • The Christmas Letters: A heartwarming, feel-good holiday romance by Jenny Hale

    The Christmas Letters: A heartwarming, feel-good holiday romance by Jenny Hale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Elizabeth Holloway's sparkling world comes crashing down around her when her boyfriend of seven years drops the bomb that he’s leaving her—at Christmas. In an attempt to piece her life back together, she suddenly finds herself seven hundred miles from her New York City home, trudging through the snow, back at her childhood farm in the Great Smoky Mountains...
  • A Widow's Courage by Anna Jacobs

    A Widow's Courage by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband’s sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wants it too...
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    small town  historical  length-medium
  • The Butterfly Garden: A BRAND NEW heartbreaking historical read from Rachel Burton for 2024 by Rachel Burton

    The Butterfly Garden: A BRAND NEW heartbreaking historical read from Rachel Burton for 2024 by Rachel Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A gripping and beautiful tale of love, loss and secrets. Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore, Lorna Cook and Kathryn Hughes.1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she’ll cause. A single woman buying property is not the ‘done thing’, especially not in a village like Carybrook...
  • With Love From Ma Maguire by Ruth Hamilton

    With Love From Ma Maguire by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the very first meeting of Philly Maguire and Richard Swainbank, a pattern of overpowering love, conflict, hatred, and secrecy was born. For although Philly and Richard were on opposite sides of the mill floor, they recognised - both of them - that they were equally matched in strength of character and the capacity for overwhelming sexual passion...
  • An Irish Country Practice by Patrick Taylor

    An Irish Country Practice by Patrick Taylor

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    An Irish Country Practice is the twelfth heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series.Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo: Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. Now his thriving practice is growing by leaps and bounds...
  • Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent

    Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys, returns with his most powerful story of human courage and determination.More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town...
  • Mr. Silver: An Enemies to Lovers Fake Dating Standalone by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Mr. Silver: An Enemies to Lovers Fake Dating Standalone by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sterling Golden—Cocky football star. Rich Playboy with a secret. Guy I’d most like to throat-punch. The cherry on top? I’m stuck pretending to be this d-bag’s girl for the next few months.When I spotted him sneaking out the Dean’s window—a woman whose reputation precedes her—I could’ve minded my business...
  • The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman

    The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Leonie Baxter finds herself out of a job and out of a relationship, she’s at her wits end. Her life has just been turned upside down and she needs a plan, fast.By chance, on a walk with her rescue puppy, Leonie stumbles across a striking house in the woods; fully furnished but unoccupied. As a journalist, she is determined to find out more, after all, reporting is in her nature...
  • Dream Sellers by Ruth Hamilton

    Dream Sellers by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Shawcross family was a strange and unhappy one. Edward Shawcross absented himself as much as possible and kept a red-haired mistress in Tintern Avenue. Alice, his wife, sought solace in chocolate and continually carped at Connie, her beautiful daughter. And Connie and Gilbert, their children, formed an uneasy alliance in the face of their parents' antipathy...
  • Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham

    Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war in this powerful love story that’s perfect for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.If you’re reading this letter, that means I’m dead...
  • The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liverpool 1953January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but trouble looms for Skinner & Sons with a new rival trying to put them out of business, but no-one knows why...
  • A Valley Secret by Anna Jacobs

    A Valley Secret by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The second in the brand new Backshaw Moss series by beloved and acclaimed author Anna Jacobs - more information coming soon! Book 1, A VALLEY DREAM, is available now! Can't wait for more Anna Jacobs? Make sure you're not missing out with this list of first books in her other series:A Daughter's Journey (Birch End Series)One Quiet Woman (Ellindale Series)Salem Street (Gibson Family Series)A Time...
  • Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kitty Underhay is playing doubles… with death.Kitty Underhay is accompanying her fiancé, Matthew Bryant, and Bertie, his new cocker spaniel, on an outing to Torbay Country Club. However, the delightful day soon turns to disaster...
  • The Golden Boys: Dark High School Bully Romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    The Golden Boys: Dark High School Bully Romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    West Golden—so easy to hate, yet so hard to resist.Don’t let that pretty face of his fool you. He isn’t the boy next door, or the kind you trust with your heart. He’s the devil in designer jeans, with all the charm of a bona fide psycho.Trust me.He swears I did something to cross him before I even stepped foot inside Cypress Prep, but it’s a lie...
  • In the Midnight Rain by Barbara O'Neal

    In the Midnight Rain by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Two converging mysteries compel a woman’s search for the truth in a captivating novel about loss, love, family, and healing by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.Biographer Ellie Connor is in Gideon, Texas, to research blues singer Mabel Beauvais who, on the verge of fame, mysteriously disappeared more than forty years ago. Gideon holds another mystery for Ellie...
  • A Daughter's Disgrace by Kitty Neale

    A Daughter's Disgrace by Kitty Neale

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartrending story of family shame from Sunday Times bestseller, Kitty Neale. A gritty London tale, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Nadine Dorries and Maureen Lee.1950s Battersea is no place for a shamed woman…FracturedAlison is the ugly duckling of her family and has always been treated with disdain by her mother...
  • An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea by Patrick Taylor

    An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea by Patrick Taylor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after...
  • The Last Summer by Karen Swan

    The Last Summer by Karen Swan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    An island full of secrets. A gripping love story . . .All her young life Effie Gillies has lived, wild and free, on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. But when Lord Sholto visits the island, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young Lord around the isle, and falls in love for the first time. But a storm hits and her world falls apart...
  • Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    West Golden—Football star. Playboy. Dead to me. Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me. At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me. His plaything. Go ahead...
  • The Corner House by Ruth Hamilton

    The Corner House by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Bernard Walsh moved his family from Bolton to Liverpool he did not expect the past to pursue him. But then Theresa Nolan, consumptive, angry and bent on revenge, arrived in the city and settled within three miles of Bernard's new home.While Theresa wrought havoc from the Mersey to the moorlands of Lancashire, two innocent children trod paths separated by fate yet joined by blood...
  • Christmas Wishes for the Bletchley Park Girls: An emotional festive wartime saga series from Patricia McBride for Christmas 2024 by Patricia McBride

    Christmas Wishes for the Bletchley Park Girls: An emotional festive wartime saga series from Patricia McBride for Christmas 2024 by Patricia McBride

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The four courageous Bletchley Park girls continue to help England win World War Two at the top secret code-breaking centre where they work.The fourth Christmas of the war is approaching fast. It should be a happy time, yet life throws them challenges they could never have imagined.Lily's heart is torn in two when her boyfriend, Grant, is badly injured in an air raid...
  • The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The next gripping and emotional historical fiction read from international bestseller, Mandy Robotham.Norway, 1942. War rages, and operation Shetland bus is in full swing. Under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and other locals smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea to the relative safety of Scotland...
  • The Last Summer by Karen Swan

    The Last Summer by Karen Swan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 16 ratings
    When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it’s in search of a better life on mainland Scotland compared to the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea.For eighteen-year-old tomboy Effie Gillies, it’s a bittersweet departure. She’s the best young climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men...
  • The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan

    The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    ‘A gripping new series . . . beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers’ - Santa Montefiore on The Last SummerA reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . .It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can’t support her past the coming winter...
  • The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The next gripping and emotional historical fiction read from international bestseller, Mandy Robotham.Norway, 1942. War rages, and operation Shetland bus is in full swing. Under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and other locals smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea to the relative safety of Scotland...
  • That Summer in Berlin by Lecia Cornwall

    That Summer in Berlin by Lecia Cornwall

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the summer of 1936, while the Nazis make secret plans for World War II, a courageous and daring young woman struggles to expose the lies behind the dazzling spectacle of the Berlin Olympics. German power is rising again, threatening a war that will be even worse than the last one. The English aristocracy turns to an age-old institution to stave off war and strengthen political bonds—marriage...
    Categorized as:
    sports  war  historical  20th century  length-long
  • That Summer in Berlin by Lecia Cornwall

    That Summer in Berlin by Lecia Cornwall

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the summer of 1936, while the Nazis make secret plans for World War II, a courageous and daring young woman struggles to expose the lies behind the dazzling spectacle of the Berlin Olympics. German power is rising again, threatening a war that will be even worse than the last one. The English aristocracy turns to an age-old institution to stave off war and strengthen political bonds—marriage...
    Categorized as:
    sports  historical  war  20th century  length-long
  • The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The next gripping and emotional historical fiction read from international bestseller, Mandy Robotham.Norway, 1942. War rages, and operation Shetland bus is in full swing. Under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and other locals smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea to the relative safety of Scotland...
  • Poison at the Village Show: The start of a BRAND NEW cozy murder mystery series from Catherine Coles for 2022 by Catherine Coles

    Poison at the Village Show: The start of a BRAND NEW cozy murder mystery series from Catherine Coles for 2022 by Catherine Coles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Westleham Village 1947. It’s the Westleham village show and with the war finally over, everyone is looking forward to a pleasant day.But newcomer, Martha Miller doesn’t share the excitement. Because since her husband Stan left for work one day and never returned, Martha has been treated as somewhat of an outsider in Westleham. The village gossip is that Martha must be to blame…...
  • A Whisper To The Living by Ruth Hamilton

    A Whisper To The Living by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Annie Byrne was born during one of the worst winters Lancashire ever remembered. When the doctor finally got through the nine-foot drifts of snow, mother and daughter were in a pretty bad way, but both the new-born Annie and her exhausted mother - a spinner in the cotton mill - were fighters, tough and determined not to let the world knock them down...
  • Megan of Merseyside by Rosie Harris

    Megan of Merseyside by Rosie Harris

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A POWERFUL SAGA SET IN LIVERPOOL.She fell in love - he broke her heartYoung Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start. She soon joins her father at Walker's Shipping Company where his co-driver Robert Field takes a great interest in her. But she has fallen deeply in love with dashing Miles Walker and does all she can to discourage Robert...
  • So Long At The Fair by Jess Foley

    So Long At The Fair by Jess Foley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her - a life of drudgery as a menial servant, like that of her sisters. But everything changes when Abbie is twelve and their emotional, spirited mother casts them into a crisis for which no one is prepared...
  • The Best Mistake by Traci Hunter Abramson

    The Best Mistake by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Following a knee injury during the final Stanley Cup game, professional hockey player Miles Donnelly finds himself sidelined in the hospital with his career hanging in the balance. His only hope is to work with a doctor to rehab and rebuild the strength in his knee. The catch: he has to remain in New York City for the next two months rather than return home to Montreal...
  • Can't Stop the Feeling by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Can't Stop the Feeling by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The local branch of the Scottish Women’s Institute want to use Kintyre Mansion to hold their annual fundraising ball. There’s only one problem—its owner. Duncan Stewart is a young widower, still reeling from grief two years after losing his wife, and making the town suffer while he does it. The artist doesn’t paint anymore—he’s become a bad-tempered recluse...
  • Trouble for the Boat Girl by Lizzie Lane

    Trouble for the Boat Girl by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    1925 - The Midlands Born on the canals, feisty Beth Dawson knows danger lurks in the shadows and suspecting she might be pregnant after a vicious attack she quickly marries a fellow boatman. Her mundane existence is interrupted by the arrival of Anthony Wesley whose mission is to organise the impoverished boatmen for strike action...
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