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With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years… Continue reading The Takeaway Men (Takeaway Men #1) by Meryl Ain
Every baby's bracelet held a mother's secret...For almost fifty years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young women she met there. It also holds many of… Continue reading The Paper Bracelet by Rachael English
The world was crumbling, but her love stayed strong. November 1915. For young housemaid, Anwen Rhys, life is hard in the Welsh mining village of Dorcalon, deep in the Rhymney Valley. She cares for her ill mother and beloved younger sister Sara, all while shielding them from her father’s drunken, violent temper. Anwen comforts herself with her… Continue reading Heartbreak in the Valleys (Wartime in the Valleys #1) by Francesca Capaldi
Alex lived through the war, but will he survive the peace? Jewish gang member, Alex comes back from the Great War almost destroyed by the horrors he has seen. When he is plucked from certain death by an old friend, he commits to making so much money he'll never know that agony again. But the… Continue reading East Side Hustler (Alex Cohen #2) by Leopold Borstinski
At dawn on a sweltering summer day, scrabbling sounds alerted Jeanne of the intruder downstairs. The pull chain rattled against the light bulb in the kitchen. Instantly a sliver of yellow light raced up the stairs and into her bedroom. Someone was moving about inside the house and had even been bold enough to turn… Continue reading Jeanne by Sylvia Hornback
“Outlander meets Birdsong is this haunting debut timeslip novel, where a strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in the First World War and a young woman living in modern-day England a century later. Shortlisted for the Eharmony/Orion Write Your Own Love Story Prize 2019” In 1916 1st Lieutenant Robert Lovett is a… Continue reading Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor
Can Josiah solve the puzzle before more people die, or is he out of his depth? In 1841, at the height of the industrial revolution in the North West of England, Josiah Ainscough returns from his travels and surprises everyone by joining the Stockport Police Force, rather than following his adopted father’s footsteps into the… Continue reading Children of Fire by Paul C.W. Beatty
Welcome to the blog tour for Jay Raven’s To Snare a Witch which is perfect for Halloween give or take a few days. A chilling historical tale of lust, sorcery and devastating revenge. No female dares spurn the lecherous advances of Sir Henry Cruttendon, 17th Century England’s most reviled nobleman. To do so risks a… Continue reading To Snare a Witch: Bell, Book & Candle by Jay Raven
Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and… Continue reading Cilka’s Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) by Heather Morris
You can pay a terrible price for keeping a promise…Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, but her lipstick is applied perfectly,… Continue reading My Name is Eva by Suzanne Goldring