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Download or read book The Cockney Angel written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East London, 1865 Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces while her father Billy gambles away their earnings. It is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy’s addiction soon leads him into trouble. Despite having been brought up by her father to fear and distrust the police, Irene finds herself forced to collaborate with them to save him from ruin. But Billy’s errant ways finally catch up with him and he is imprisoned in Newgate jail. With her mother away from home, Irene has little choice but to seek help from Inspector Edward Kent – her sworn enemy. Only she can clear her father's name and unite the family once more...
Download or read book A Mother's Secret written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, knowing she must keep the secret of her child's birth for ever. Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy's care to Biddy Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old woman's cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for...
Download or read book We'll Meet Again written by Lily Baxter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is April 1939 and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love. But all too soon, Britain is at war with Germany, Guernsey has been occupied and Meg's family home requisitioned by the German army. Meg insists on remaining with her father, determined to help save her beloved island from the ravages of war. And then she finds herself face to face with Rayner - now a German officer - once more and her life is thrown into turmoil as they risk their lives to meet in secret . As the conflict in Europe intensifies, basic provisions become scarce and soon the people Meg loves come under threat. Torn between her love for Rayner and her duty to her family and the island she grew up on, a heartbroken Meg has a terrible choice to make...
Download or read book The Ragged Heiress written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic story from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Dilly Court. London, 1874 When Lucetta Froy wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers nothing of the events that brought her to her present state. She's taken home by two rough-speaking individuals who claim to be her brothers. However, as her health improves and her memory returns, she realises she has been kidnapped. The men hope to claim Lucetta's fortune as a ransom, for she is the daughter of a prosperous importer whose ship went down at sea. Her parents tragically drowned but Lucetta survived. Abandoned and destitute, it seems as though the world is against her. But Lucetta's spirit will never be broken, and she soon sets out to reclaim what is rightfully hers. . .
Download or read book The Lady's Maid written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. As the years have passed, Kate has grown up knowing only poverty and servitude, whilst Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood. But their past binds them together in ways they must never know. Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever. . .
Book Synopsis The Best of Daughters by : Dilly Court
Download or read book The Best of Daughters written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She is drawn to the suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are forced to move to the country and Daisy’s first duty is to her family. Here she becomes engaged to her childhood friend – a union both families have dreamed of. But, on the eve of their wedding, war is declared, and Daisy knows her life will never be the same again...
Download or read book A Mother's Wish written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MOVING, HEARTFELT AND FAMILY DRIVEN SAGA SET IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY LONDON FROM THE BESTSELLING SAGA AUTHOR Effie Grey has fallen on hard times since the death of her husband. Forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law, Jacob, Effie must put aside her own despair in order to protect her brother, Tom, and her young son, Georgie. Life becomes even more unbearable when Jacob hires the villainous Salter and his vile wife Sal to run the barge. When Tom is sent away without a penny, Effie is forced to make a choice to protect her family. Driven by desperation, Effie steals Jacob’s hidden cache of money and flees with her son in search of Tom. No matter what, she will make a home for little Georgie and keep him safe from harm.
Download or read book Cinderella Sister written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CLASSIC FAMILY SAGA FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR DILLY COURT East London, 1880 Lily Larkin is the youngest and least important member of her family. When tragedy strikes, she is left at home to look after the house whilst her older siblings go out to work. As she goes about her daily chores, her head is full of dreams, and she longs for the day she might have a life of her own. When a fire threatens to destroy the nearby docks, Lily's act of kindness towards a handsome foreigner has disastrous consequences for the whole family. Losing their home, the family struggle to make ends meet. And just when things might finally be looking up for them, Lily makes a terrible error of judgement. Forced onto the streets, Lily wonders if she'll ever see her family again . . .
Download or read book A Mother's Trust written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Family Saga from Sunday Times Bestseller Dilly Court Phoebe Giamatti lives with her Italian family in the heart of London's East End. With her father killed by a notorious gang years earlier, Phoebe is now responsible for keeping her loved ones out of trouble. But just as the Giamatti family are about to go to Italy for the winter, Phoebe discovers a secret about her mother that could tear them all apart. Determined not to betray her mother's trust, Phoebe faces an impossible decision. Can she confront a dangerous past in order to protect her family's future?
Download or read book In Love and War written by Lily Baxter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling wartime novel of love, loss and remembrance from the bestselling author of The Shopkeeper's Daughter. August 1914. With the approach of war about to bring tragedy and heartache to families all over England, Elsie longs to do her duty for King and country. She heads to London to act as an interpreter for thousands of Belgium refugees. But although she enjoys her work, she longs to do more. And when the opportunity arises she joins the foreign office, travelling to France as an undercover agent. When circumstances force her to return home, she joins the FANYs. And on the battlefields of Europe, she must find the courage to help save lives, each day hoping that one day she’ll be reunited with the man she loves.
Book Synopsis William Hogarth: The Cockney's Mirror by : Marjorie Bowen
Download or read book William Hogarth: The Cockney's Mirror written by Marjorie Bowen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Hogarth: The Cockney's Mirror" is a book about one of the greatest artists of England. The book is split into four parts. The first gives the background of William Hogarth's life and pictures, the second recounts his career and character and his attitude to his own genius, the third gives the stories, actors (real or imagined) of the principal pictures and prints, and the fourth describes and analyses the work from the point of view of aesthetics.
Download or read book Angel Rogue written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Pandamax Press. This book was released on with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Angels Fear written by C. S. Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST SEBASTIAN ST. CYR MYSTERY! “The combined elements of historical fiction, romance, and mystery in this fog-enshrouded London puzzler will appeal to fans of Anne Perry.”—Booklist It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then the body of a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars. Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an officer during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian’s heart years ago. In Sebastian’s world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian’s own salvation....
Book Synopsis The Best of Sisters by : Dilly Court
Download or read book The Best of Sisters written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thames carried him away from her, but would it bring him home...? Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Living above her uncle's chandlery she has grown accustomed to a life of penury and servitude, her only comfort the love and protection of her older brother, Bart. But one day Bart accidentally kills a man and is forced to flee to New Zealand. Alone, barefoot, beaten down and at the mercy of her cruel uncle, Eliza realises that her very survival is at stake...
Download or read book The Cockney Girl written by Gilda O'Neill and published by Canelo Saga. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping saga of love and loss on the eve of the Great War. The annual migration from London to the hop fields of Kent is normally a longed-for escape from the dust and grime of the East End. But this year Rose Fairleigh worries their departure will interrupt the slow-blossoming romance between her daughter Jess and postman Jack Barnes. Jack promises to visit and assures Rose he will keep an eye on her three sons, who are staying behind. Before he knows it, though, one of the boys is in trouble and it's up to Jack to bring him home. Meanwhile in Kent, Jess' life grows increasingly confusing as, full of promises and charm, the son of suffragette Lady Worlington turns his attentions to her... A heartwrenching East End family drama, perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Downton Abbey.
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Book Synopsis The Greatest Short Stories of H. G. Wells: 70+ Titles in One Edition by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Greatest Short Stories of H. G. Wells: 70+ Titles in One Edition written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Short Stories of H. G. Wells: 70+ Titles in One Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Chronic Argonauts; In The Modern Vein (A Bardlet's Romance); The Triumphs Of A Taxidermist ; The Stolen Bacillus; The Hammerpond Park Burglary; The Jilting Of Jane; The Diamond Maker; The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid; In The Avu Observatory; Through A Window (At A Window); The Treasure In The Forest; The Lord Of The Dynamos; Aepyornis Island; A Deal In Ostriches; The Flying Man; The Temptation Of Harringay; The Moth (A Moth — Genus Novo); The Remarkable Case Of Davidson's Eyes; A Catastrophe; Le Mari Terrible; Pollock And The Porroh Man; The Obliterated Man (The Sad Story Of A Dramatic Critic); The Cone; The Argonauts Of The Air; The Bulla (The Reconciliation); A Slip Under The Microscope; Under The Knife (A Slip Under The Knife)... Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even a book on war games.
