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  The Mistress and The Daughter -...

  Evelyn Hood

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  THE QUEEN OF SCOTTISH SAGAS ⭐️ A heartfelt historical read about survival and long-buried secrets from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood! For fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court ❤️'Compelling from the start, heartfelt and beautifully written.' Rosie Clarke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Can they forge new futures after the death of a patriarch? 
  Paisley, Scotland, 1929 
  Isla McAdam is summoned to Paisley by a lawyer following her husband’s suicide, only to discovers that she was never truly married to Kenneth McAdam, a shameless man who had been leading a double life. 
  Ainslie, his daughter by his lawful wife, warns Isla to stay away from their family, but Isla has nowhere else to go and moves with her two children into a tiny room of the run-down tenement building Kenneth left her. 
  Kenneth's unscrupulous actions have left very little to support either of his families and when tragedy strikes, Ainslie’s mother, Catherine, becomes increasingly unstable, creating havoc for both Isla and Ainslie. 
  Despite being thrown together in unexpected and distressing circumstances, Isla and Ainslie gradually realise that they can offer one another support. But when secrets from Isla’s past spill out, her current life becomes intolerable, and both Isla and Ainslie face life-changing choices that lead them in unforeseen directions.Storytelling at its best, Evelyn Hood is the original bestselling Scottish saga writer 💫 
  Previously published as McAdam’s Women 
  PRAISE FOR EVELYN HOOD 
  'If you like Catherine Cookson, you’ll love Evelyn Hood’s books.’ - Lizzie Lane 
  ‘Evelyn Hood’s characters step off the page and into your heart.’ - Sheila Riley 
  ‘This is addictive and heartfelt storytelling, with colourful characters you'll never want to say goodbye to.’ - Jane Lark 
  'Loved the strong, relatable characters. A lively, refreshing read.' - Kate Eastham 
  'Wonderfully descriptive, with memorable characters and a true sense of place.' - Tracy Baines 
  'Faultless historical detail and emotionally complex characters makethese engrossing and intelligent Evelyn Hood's sagas deeply satisfying' - Maisie Thomas 
  ‘Evocative, beautifully rich, brilliantly detailed and meticulously researched - this story transported me and kept me up way past my bedtime - a triumph of a story. I very highly recommend Evelyn Hood’ – Renita D’Silva 
  'Scotland's Catherine Cookson' - Scots Magazine 
  ‘Hood is immaculate in her historical detail’ - Scottish Herald 
  'Quite simply, I couldn't put it down. A rich and rewarding read' - Emma Blair 
  'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' - Scots Magazine 
  ‘Touching, romantic and unforgettable’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Love all her books’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Evelyn Hood produces the best of stories’ - Reader Review 
  ‘I cannot put her books down’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Love everything Evelyn Hood writes’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Evelyn Hood is a fantastic writer, bringing the past to life and drawing you right into the story’ - Reader Review

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, Juhani...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume the once forgotten literary backwaters of Scandinavia, and its hinterland, reveal the storied works of their own literature.  Some names are familiar, some decidedly not.  But each has literary talents and compelling narratives. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Nordic - An Introduction 
  2 - The Amputated Arms by Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe 
  3 - Pioneers by Juhani Aho 
  4 - The Nursemaid by Minna Canth 
  5 - Glahn's Death by Knut Hamsun 
  6 - Photographer and Philosopher by August Strindberg 
  7 - A Dry Spell by Eimar H Kvaran 
  8 - Norvick's Old Man by Anna Wahlenburg 
  9 - The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Anderson 
  10 - Mistress Bine by Cornelia Levetzow 
  11 - The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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  The Proxy Bride

  Zoe Boccabella

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  In 1939, Giacinta sets sail from Italy to Australia. Decades later, a granddaughter discovers the true story of her family. 
  Imagine marrying someone you've never met ... 
   
  When Sofie comes to stay with her grandmother in Stanthorpe, she knows little of Nonna Gia's past. In the heat of that 1984 summer, the two clash over Gia's strict Italian ways and superstitions, her chilli-laden spaghetti and the evasive silence surrounding Sofie's father, who died before she was born. Then Sofie learns Gia had an arranged marriage. From there, the past begins to reveal why no-one will talk of her father. 
   
  As Nonna Gia cooks, furtively adding a little more chilli each time, she also begins feeding Sofie her stories. How she came to Australia on a 'bride ship', among many proxy brides, knowing little about the husbands they had married from afar. Most arriving to find someone much different than described. 
   
  Then, as World War II takes over the nation, and in the face of the growing animosity towards Italians that sees their husbands interned, Gia and her friends are left alone. Impoverished. Desperate. To keep their farms going, their only hope is banding together, along with Edie, a reclusive artist on the neighbouring farm and two Women's Land Army workers. But the venture is made near-impossible by the hatred towards the women held by the local publican and an illicit love between Gia and an Australian, Keith. 
   
  The summer burns on and the truth that unfolds is nothing like what Sofie expected ... 
   
  The author of Mezza Italiana brings to life a unique point of migrant women's untold experience, in a resonant novel of family, food and love.  
   
  'A deeply engrossing and authentic story, with such passionate realism you must keep reading.' - JACKIE FRENCH 
   
  'An authentic and heartfelt read that examines the connections we make when faced with hardship ... It's an inspiring look at women coming together to form their own community.' - BETTER READING

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  On Blazing Wings

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause — his own. Duane heads off to war in Europe, selling his deadly skills to the highest bidder. But now he's about to take off on a flight that will open his eyes — and his heart. Sometimes you have to make a choice, and for Duane, making the wrong one could cost him the woman he loves. Soar to new heights of adventure as the award-winning audio version of On Blazing Wings puts you on the front line of a battle between love and death.

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  A Woman of Courage - A...

  Rita Bradshaw

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  Survival means fighting back. Set across Sunderland and New York in the late 19th century, A Woman of Courage is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling Believing in Tomorrow.It's 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is handsome and charismatic, sweeping Josie off her feet with his beguiling lies and promises. He charms her into marrying him on her sixteenth birthday, but on her wedding night the fairy tale ends.Josie finds herself trapped in a living nightmare and there's no one to help her. Events spiral out of control, and when her life is put in danger she escapes with her baby son. Fleeing to a different country, Josie fights to make a good life for her child and then love beckons again.But the McGuigan family's power is far reaching. When the day of reckoning comes, can Josie survive it?

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  The Conquering of Tate the Pious

  Sierra Simone

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  England is burning with Norman fires, and Tate—the youngest ever abbess of Far Hope Abbey—is determined to guard the abbey's ancient secrets with her very life.   
  Her life may be what it takes, however, for a Norman warlord known only as The Wolf is pillaging his way right to the abbey's doors. But when The Wolf arrives, Tate finds not the brutal man she was expecting, but instead a cruel and beautiful woman who leads her men with a ferocity to rival that of her Viking ancestors.   
  And after she sets eyes on Tate, it becomes clear that gold and silver aren't the only things The Wolf wants to carry off into the night…

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