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Lizzie Lane is a pseudonym of Jean G Goodhind, an author with a passion for storytelling with over 50 novels to her several names, including crime mysteries, exotic sagas and historical romance. Lizzie Lane specializes in stories set in England during the Second World War. The four titles included in this set are: Wartime Brides (Read more...) War Baby (Read more...) Home Sweet Home (Read more...) A Wartime Friend (Read more...)

At war’s end, three women wait for their men to come home: Edna’s fiancé returns badly crippled; Charlotte’s husband is no longer the kind, gentle man she once knew; and Polly’s GI boyfriend doesn’t come back at all.

The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, but an orphaned baby, found alive in a bombed house in London, makes life worth living.

Frances Sweet is coming of age during wartime, much attracted to a dashing American GI, but still living with her uncle, aunt and cousins and longing to find the mother she has never known.

Lily and Rudy, her German Shepherd dog, escape from a train bound for the death camps, but even back in England, in the Somerset countryside, they are not safe. Somebody wants Rudy gone.

Sent to the workhouse aged just three years old, Lottie's future looks bleak. When an opportunity arises at the local chapel, she seizes the chance to make a better life for herself, against all the odds.

Forced into service at Fortune Hall, Hetty Pearson strikes up an unlikely friendship with the younger son of the house, Richard. She rejects the attentions of his brother, the ruthless seducer Matthew, and finds herself with an impossible choice.

This comprehensive introduction to slow cooking comprises more than 200 easy-to-prepare recipes from around the world – including soups, stews, pot roasts, risottos, cakes and desserts – plus clear guidance on how to choose and care for your slow cooker, adapt and scale recipes to suit different requirements, and common troubleshooting issues.

This visual field guide to sea birds focuses on 50 species, each illustrated by a watercolour portrait, alongside notes on colour and behaviour. The birds range from the well-known – Emperor Penguin, Albatross – to the more unusually named Parasitic Jaegar and Blue-footed Booby. A useful spotting guide displays the birds across seven spreads.

The London crime scene of the 1950s and 1960s was rife with notorious villains such as the Krays and the Richardsons, but this book reveals that behind the headline-grabbers there was an unsuspected mastermind planning the Great Train Robbery and a string of other major robberies, a shadowy Mr Big controlling London's crime from the cover of his day job as a solicitor's clerk. His only confidant, his nephew Lee Sturley, tells the story.

A leading expert in the history of landscape, Richard Muir covers all aspects of villages throughout the British Isles, explaining how to interpret the history of a village by exploring features such as the village green, the church, cottages and farmsteads. As well as each of these features there are chapters on fishing villages, deserted villages and Scottish clachans and fermtouns, all richly illustrated with photographs and interspersed with practical guidance on how to carry out your own research.

Sometimes known as the 'British Schindler', Frank Foley worked in the British Embassy in Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War and helped up to 10,000 Jews escape from Germany by arranging for visas and issuing fake documents. This book tells the stories of Foley and 26 other Britons who risked their lives to help Jews evade Nazi persecution and who were awarded the 'Hero of the Holocaust' medal in 2010.