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  Thursday’s Child

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in post-war Liverpool continues to move readers. 
  Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war. 
  Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian man — a student shortly to return home to an arranged marriage. 
  When Peggy and Ajit fell in love, they knew the future would not be easy. As they begin their new life, far from their homes and their families, is love enough to bring two worlds together? 
  In this top-rated historical saga, Forrester takes us on a journey through post-war Liverpool, exploring the complexities of family ties and love. Thursday's Child is a testament to the resilience of Peggy and Ajit as they navigate their way through societal expectations and personal desires. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (The Winter Bride), Maureen Lee (The Kelly Sisters), Pam Howes (Dreams on Mersey Square), Anna Jacobs (Lavender Lane), and Rosie Goodwin (Dancing Till Midnight). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Unsealing - Love Lust and...

  Robert Brighton

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  Named BookLife Editor's Pick - "... Written with grace and power, capturing the moment that electricity lit up the world ..." 
   "An addictive page-turner with rich historical details ..." - Kirkus Reviews 
  A gripping, lush, immersive historical mystery inspired by a 'true crime of the century' that shocked the world, set against the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. This is the first novel - the origin story - in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries from award-winning author Robert Brighton - as much a 'whydunit' as a 'whodunit' in a page-turning story culminating in a murder that leaves readers wanting more. 
  Buffalo, New York, 1901 … a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes … The Electric City … where the money that builds Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests … 
  And less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the young, elite Ashwood Set. Alicia and Edward Miller may be one of Ashwood’s most envied couples, but as their marriage curdles, simmering and sultry Alicia falls for dashing, young attorney Arthur Pendle, on whose mysterious income he and his longsuffering wife – facing demons of their own – live fast and high … 
  But life is never fast enough, or high enough, for the Ashwood Set, who plunge headlong into a deadly whirlpool of official corruption, financial deceit, and infidelity which can only end in disaster … while the fate of beautiful, aspiring sleuth Sarah Payne and her Avenging Angel Detective Agency hang precariously in the balance. 
  Pitting detective against detective, husband against wife, and set against the backdrop of Gilded Age splendor and excess, The Unsealing is a gripping, psychological tale of forbidden pleasures and fathomless pain.

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  War and Peace Book 3

  Leo Tolstoy

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  In Book 3 of War and Peace, the Napoleonic Wars intensify as Russia retreats after the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, wounded and disillusioned, finds solace in Natasha Rostova’s youthful vitality and falls deeply in love. Their relationship blossoms despite societal obstacles. Pierre Bezukhov, meanwhile, struggles with his inheritance and marriage to the manipulative Helene Kuragin, seeking meaning through philosophy and Freemasonry. The Rostov family faces financial hardships, yet their spirit remains unshaken. Tolstoy weaves personal narratives with historical events, exploring themes of love, destiny, and the search for purpose amid chaos and war.

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  Waves and War - A Short Story

  Kevin Moore

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  September, 1813 
  The United States' second war with Great Britain has thus far been disheartening for the young country. The American invasion of Canada from New York has been thoroughly repelled. The U.S. Navy has suffered a string of embarrassing defeats along the Atlantic Seaboard. Entire swaths of the Northwest Territory are now under His Majesty’s control. But the Americans are not without hope. 
  Crewman Joshua Nelson is serving his country aboard the USS Niagara, the flagship of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The American fleet has the dangerous yet pivotal opportunity to wrest Lake Erie from British hands and with it the supply line for their troops in the Northwest Territory.

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  When Knighthood Was in Flower

  Charles Major

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  Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has arranged for her to wed King Louis XII of France and demands his sister put the House of Tudor first, threatening, "You will marry France and I will give you a wedding present – Charles Brandon's head!" (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

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  3 Christmas Stories - With...

  WW Jacobs, Hans Christian...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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