Fifty Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria have been living in Luxembourg for two years. They are working desperately to get to the US where they hope to create new lives for themselves and their families.It is now August, 1940. The Nazis have taken over most of Europe, including Luxembourg. Now the refugees have been given permission to leave. They will be traveling in a convoy across occupied France to the Spanish border from where they must find a way to get to Lisbon. There ...

From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.***Everybody needs a little love in their lives...Pru Plum is the celebrated owner of a famous Mayfair bakery. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut. Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixty-six last year.But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears....

Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world.His novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide. Now, six years after A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted at #1, spending fourteen consecutive weeks at #1 and nearly a full year on the hardcover list, Hosseini returns with a book that is broader in scope and setting than anything he's ever written before.A multigenerational-family story revolving around brothers and si...

The captivating bestseller about a factory girl in Bermondsey during World War 1.Britain, 1911.Strikes and riots erupt countrywide as the shadow of the Great War looms over Europe. But in one small corner of London, factory girl Nellie Clark's wages are all that keep her younger brothers and sister from starvation.And, as the young women of Pearce Duff's custard factory watch their m...

From the dark days of WWII to present-day North Carolina, the bestselling author of The Notebook shares the lives of two couples overcoming destructive secrets—and finding joy together.Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to rem...

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II.Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage – not knowing that the papers she has s...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Watch Over Me and Take Me Home, the million copy selling author Daniela Sacerdoti returns to the magical and atmospheric Glen Avich in the Scottish Highlands.Margherita's marriage is slowly falling apart. Getting pregnant after trying for so long may have been a wonderful surprise for her, but for her husband it was the last straw. When she needs him most, she realises he's just not there for h...

A gripping story of love, death and danger in Nazi-occupied France from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children.When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty finds out her father is not the man who raised her, she is both shocked and intrigued. Determined to find out more about her new family, she travels to the convent of Our Lady of Mercy in France to meet her aunt, the Reverend Mother.But when France falls to the German...

The gripping sequel to bestselling THE FOUR STREETS. Shot through with darkness, but also humour, warmth and charm.In the Four Streets in Liverpool, a dreadful murder has been committed, and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man's child.This secret is so dangerous that her mother, Maura, and the redoubtable Kathleen, her best friend Nellie's grandmother, decide the girls must be sp...

The first book in a heartbreaking trilogy set in post-war Liverpool by bestselling author Nadine Dorries.1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up.One is motherless – and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it...