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Set in Cornwall, this is one of the popular family sagas by the Cornish writer Gloria Cook. The story unfolds in six novels following the lives of the Harvey family of Ford Farm through two world wars, from 1917 to 1948. The titles included in this set are:Touch the Silence (Read more...)Moments of Time (Read more...)From a Distance (Read more...)Never Just a Memory (Read more...)A Stranger Light (Read more...)A Whisper of Life (Read more...)

Leaving the bright lights of London, Sally Thomas joins an acting troupe in Crewe. But, as this novel by the much-loved actress Lynda Bellingham unfolds, life in the provinces turns out to be anything but tranquil, and tragedy is gathering backstage…

From the age of eleven, Jane Austen was writing short pieces of fiction, poetry and drama, often parodying contemporary novels and often violent and risqué. She copied some of these stories into notebooks – ‘Volumes’ – for family and friends to read. This book presents a photographic facsimile of the first of the three surviving notebooks, offering a rare and sometimes quite shocking introduction to the young Austen, along with an introduction, ‘A Writer’s Apprenticeship’, by Kathryn Sutherland.

Lily was a housemaid at St Clere’s Hall in Essex; Charlotte was the pampered daughter of the Hall; but when war broke out in 1914, both went to work in the munitions factory. However different their backgrounds, now they must work together to improve their lives.