Let the Manningham family introduce themselves and, if you will indulge them, they would like to take you on a saga that spans three continents and three generations, holding a conversation with history with cocktails of love, class and conflict on land and sea, from the peaceful prairies of Canada to the wartime terrors of the Western Front.   For, unbeknown to the Manninghams, fate has w

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It is a 1926 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, a perfection of craftsmanship and engineering; a birthday gift to Isabel Kane from her husband, Hugo. Isabel appears to have it all. She is beautiful, with a loving husband who is successful in business, children, a lovely home and no financial worries.   That is until the car accident and in an instant her life is changed. She believes the family is

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Lische, the second book by Wynn Johnson, reads like a novel but the people we meet and the events that take place were very real. The author relates in detail how his ancestor, Lische, establishes his farm after staking his claim in the wild lands of Kentucky in 1857. He marries his childhood sweetheart, Sally, in 1858 and, almost against his original idea of leading a simple, self-suffi

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It's 1931 and Mark Coltishall is young and ready to embrace the world of work. When he takes up a clerical position at a local north London factory, he meets Eve, a colleague who is as attracted to him as he is to her. However, despite their relationship, the pull of the sea is strong for Mark and he goes on a ship, eventually training as an engineer. L

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Britannia AD 78. Roman feet thud through the land as an army of occupation. Cadeyrn, a young native aristocrat, passionately hates the invaders led by governor Agricola. Cadeyrn fears for the safety of his sister, who lives far away, and sets off to go to her despite warnings from his father and brothers.   But he does not get there.   Instead, he is thrown into a

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At the outbreak of the Second World War, German troops are storming through Europe. Englishman Harry, having settled in Brussels, has to get away... fast! But what of his two young Belgian born sons, Paul and Stephen?   They head for the northern French coast but are unable to cross the English Channel to safety. They eventually find themselves holed up in a small fishing village in southern

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‘My hand moved to his head, the fingers sank in spongy flesh and his brain dripped through my fingers.' Harrowing words from a man's diary. No one could ever imagine the horrors of war or the injuries and suffering these brave men went through in the trenches, or the sadness of losing yet another one of your men. He wanted to shut out the sights and smells

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After the disaster that was Bannockburn, the English army returns home in disarray, running southwards on land and sea, fleeing the triumphant Robert the Bruce. However, one man decides to go north, into the jaws of the Scottish horde. Young squire Richard de Mauville is on a mission: to find and return the body of his beloved knight and mentor to his home and then to fight on. Strange, then, that it will b

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Ill-fated Rosalia is born on the very first day the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. This story charts that path of the impoverished Hungarian Gypsy girl from birth to her lonely death, as turbulent events beyond her control take over her life and the world around her. Rosalia is thrust from misery to tragedy, glimpsing touching moments of humanity along the way. In a compelling tale which spans continents,

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Grant and Debra are renovating their country cottage when they find a packet of love letters that have lain hidden behind a fireplace for over two hundred years. Debra reads them and learns the secrets of Clara, a woman married to a slave-owner in Bristol, living on the wealth of his sugar plantation in Jamaica. In the late eighteenth century there is an outcry in England against slavery in the B

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Tom Tremayne and his Aborigine ‘brother', Star Boy, uncover the truth about Thomas' background and find a fortune at the same time. They travel from Australia to England to set the record straight and to exact revenge upon those who stole his heritage.

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The village of Oradour-sur-Glane is etched into the memory of every French soul. It was a pretty, vibrant town at the beginning of the Second World War, filled with people who went about their business and pleasure with the thought only of enjoying the life they had been given. Romances blossomed, babies were born, friendships were forged, until one bright, summer day, war descended on them with a vengeance

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