Category: Books
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A World Between Us
Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, runs away from London to help the cause of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. But she is also following Nat, a passionate young man from the Jewish East End who has joined the International Brigades to fight Franco. And George – familiar George from home –…
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That Burning Summer
A Book of the Year (2013) for The Independent and Lovereading Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow up quickly. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a brave face since the fall of France, not least for the sake of her anxiety-prone younger brother Ernest. But now the enemy is overhead, and the rules are…
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Liberty’s Fire
A Telegraph Best YA Book of 2015 Paris, 1871. Nearly 40 years after the events of Les Miserables, a new revolution is brewing . . . Though the Franco-Prussian war is over, life through the siege has been tough, and peace proves bitter. On the edge of despair, Zéphyrine finds inspiration in the hope offered by the…
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Doctor of Love
Widely accepted as the world’s first sex therapist, Dr Graham set out to bring the sublime into the sex life of every married couple. He guaranteed both ecstasy and fertility to the users of his infamous Celestial Bed, a contraption which harnessed all the most exciting developments of the Enlightenment. Electricity, magnetism, mind-altering gasses and…
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Mr Peacock’s Possessions
“I wake again and again and wish we had never come to this place. It seems to me that we have broken into the middle of a story and now we are part of it.” Oceania, 1879. Lizzie Peacock and her siblings have endured a hardscrabble life since their parents brought them to settle a…