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  Borrowed Dreams

  May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey

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  THE PROPOSAL
  Driven to undo the evil wrought by her dead husband, Millicent Wentworth must find a way to save her estate and free the innocent people he enslaves. Her only hope is a marriage—in name only—to the notorious widower, the Earl of Aytoun.
   
  THE GROOM
  Devastated by the tragic accident that killed his wife and left him gravely wounded, Lyon Pennington, fourth Earl of Aytoun, is tormented by the accusations that blame him for the catastrophe. Filled with despair, he lets his mother lure him into a marriage of convenience—for the sake of a good-hearted woman on the verge of financial ruin.
   
  THE DESIRE
  Under Millicent's gentle gaze, Lyon begins to regain his strength and his wounded heart begins to heal. And soon Millicent discovers that beneath his unruly beard and grim demeanor, Lyon just may be the most handsome—and caring—man she's ever encountered. For the first time in her life, she realizes that she is alive—alive with a smoldering desire for the one man she'll love forever…
   
   Holt Medallion Winner for Best Historical Romance
  Romantic Times Award Winner for Best British-Set Historical Romance 

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  An Idle Woman - based on one of...

  Wendy Parkins

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  ONE WOMAN CLAIMS THE POWER TO TAKE CHARGE OF HER OWN DESTINY 
  1838, England: When eighteen-year-old Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, all her hopes for her future are quickly shattered as she finds there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps Frances in isolation on his family’s estate, while spending her fortune and preying upon their maids. 
  Frances yearns to break free from her marriage but the law is not on her side. Only when John’s abuse escalates can she set in motion a daring plan to secure her freedom. 
  A story of gaslighting, control and one woman’s fight, An Idle Woman is the true story behind one of the most sensational divorce trials of the nineteenth century. 
  ‘Remarkable… an engaging and informative read’ Leah Moyes, author of A Polish Nurse 
  ‘Reading it felt like falling through the cracks of time and witnessing a terrifying fight for freedom first-hand’ Meg Ellis, @megsreadingspot 
  ‘Powerful, heartfelt and affecting… an important story that demands to be read’ Emma Alvey, @emmas.biblio.treasures

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  A Time to Remember

  Josephine Cox

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  Don’t miss the gripping new drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller! 
  Are some memories best forgotten? 
  Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she’s been easy to take advantage of. 
  All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her friend, Barbara Hayle. 
  Glamorous, and with a successful career on the stage, Barbara seems to be everything that Maureen is not. But things aren’t as they seem, and what starts out as a nostalgic trip between friends, becomes something different altogether. Much has changed in the years since they first met ̶ now Maureen has something that her friend desperately needs, and Barbara is used to getting exactly what she wants. 
  As their journey takes them down some dark byways, will this be the one friendship that Maureen should have left firmly in the past? 
  Praise for Josephine Cox: 
  ‘Cox’s talent as a storyteller never lets you escape the spell’ Daily Mail 
  ‘A surefire winner’ Woman’s Weekly 
  In this historical fiction, Josephine Cox, a top coming author and Sunday Times bestselling author, weaves a tale of life and family sagas that will leave you breathless. A TIME TO REMEMBER is not just a bestseller, it's a journey through time that will make you question everything you thought you knew about friendship and sacrifice. 
  For fans of Anna Jacobs (The Secrets of Eastby End), Lizzie Lane (Tough Times on Coronation Close), Pamela Kavanagh (THE LONELY FURROW a spellbinding historical family saga), Sylvia Broady (THE GUNNER GIRLS), and Rosie Clarke (Family Matters at Blackberry Farm). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  A Matter of Persuasion

  Theresa Howes

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  'Achingly romantic with lashings of Gilded Age glamour.' Jessica Bull 
  'A Matter of Persuasion completely captured my heart! The way it immerses you in the lavish details of the era made me feel like I was living in that time. I couldn’t help but stay up late, lost in the world the author created.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'Loved this beautiful Gilded age novel! The outfits the settings and gorgeous historical content had me reading late into the night!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Lose yourself in this retelling of Persuasion, the ultimate tale of love, loss and sacrifice, re-imagined in the opulent but guarded Gilded Age society.  
  New York, 1882. Amy Eaton is a bestselling authoress, much to the embarrassment of her family. Proudly ‘old money’, they see her professionalism as an impropriety. Despite their undisguised disdain for her, Amy is bound by a promise she made to her dying mother to look after her two sisters and father. 
  Eight years have passed since Amy gave up the love of her life, after her mother’s best friend persuaded her not to marry him. But now Wareham is back: a rich, self-made man in search of a wife. 
  Doing her best to forget the life she might have had with Wareham, Amy must learn how to navigate her small social circle without letting her true feelings show. As new and unexpected situations arise, will Amy defy expectations and choose her own path?Praise for Theresa Howes: 
  ‘Truly gripping… I loved it.’ Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author of Promise Me 
  ‘I absolutely loved this… Vivid and heartbreaking.’ Lana Kortchik, USA Today bestselling author of Sisters of War 
  ‘War, passion and tragedy unite in this atmospheric and moving tale.’S D Sykes, author of the Oswald de Lacy Medieval Murders series 
  ‘A wonderfully immersive, emotional read.’ Annabelle Thorpe, author of The Enemy of Love 
  ‘I stayed up late into the night to finish… A thrilling, exciting story… You might want to have some tissues handy.’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This book will stay with me for a long time. A credit to Theresa Howes for exquisite writing and an evocative storyline.’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘It was absolutely compulsive – my heart was in my throat for the brilliant heroine all the way through.’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  For fans of Alexandra Weston (The Lavender Bride), Katherine Sherbrooke (Leaving Coy's Hill), Ellie Midwood (The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz), Catherine Hokin (What Only We Know), and Rachel Wesson (Light Rises).

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  Codename: Madeleine - Love...

  Barnaby Jameson

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  A Mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War. 
  A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front. 
  A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity. 
  An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books. 
  Each will make a journey that changes history. 
  The constellations will force the Mystic's daughter to make an impossible choice. To remain at her harp as the shadow of the war looms again – or join the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Bābouli to her Sufi father, Madeleine to the Gestapo, a lone mission to Occupied Paris promises to be the most hazardous of World War Two. 
  Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with tigers, zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, angels, assassins, chessmen, cyanide, beetles, butterflies and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India and Latin America, Codename: Madeleine is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry and resistance.

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  The Settlement

  Jock Serong

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  In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. 
   
  On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. 
   
  He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them—from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country. 
   
  The orphans Whelk and Pipi, fighting for their survival against the malevolent old man they know as the Catechist, watch as almost everything about this situation proves resistant to the Commandant’s will. The wind, the spread of disease, the strange black dog that floats in on the prow of a wrecked ship… 
   
  But above all the Chief, the leader of the exiles, before whom the Commandant performs a perverse, intimate dance of violence and betrayal. 
   
  ‘An extraordinarily vivid imagining of one of the most significant encounters in Australian history.’ AMANDA LOHREY 
   
  ‘Grips from the first page. It’s unsentimental, truthful and profound – all in a milieu effortlessly imagined.’ DON WATSON

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