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Black Candle
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Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with ...
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Tilly Trotter Widowed
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Reissue of a novel first published in 1982. The author's other novels include "Invisible Cord", "The Mallen Girl", "Tilly Trotter", "The Tide of Life" and "Gambling Man".
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Lady on My Left
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Paul Aylmer, an antiques dealer, adopted Alison Read when she was a very little girl and taught her everything he knew about the antiques business. Now she is grown up, and is hopelessly in love with Paul--who has an eye for nothing but antiques. When one of his old girlfriends turns up with a mystery--where are those missing jewels?--Paul's ...
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Thursday Friend
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Hannah and Humphrey Drayton seem to be happily married. Yet Hannah has reached the stage where she can't stand her husband. Every Thursday she meets with her friend, David Craventon, and they go to the cinema or the theatre. Yet when Humphrey finds out, her Thursday friend becomes her saviour.
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Cultured Handmaiden
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At 21, Jinny's alone in the world, working with a marked lack of job satisfaction in the typing pool of a big engineering firm in Tyneside. However, things are about to change. Two older men come into her life, and reshape her life.
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The Blind Years
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Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the Blitz and she is brought up with the Overmeers in Northumbria. Unaware that she had been manipulated into marrying their son, Laurence, an encounter with the son of a farmer opens her eyes. When she calls off the wedding, Laurence seeks his revenge.
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Round Tower
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Vanessa Ratcliffe is just sixteen, daughter of one of the town's richest men. And in spite of her social standing and convent education Vanessa's provocative manner often draws envious eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond, living in filthy Ryder's Row, but as engineer at Affleck and Tate he's worth his weight in gold. Angus has ...
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The Bonny Dawn
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The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself.
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Dwelling Place
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When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the ...
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Ruthless Need
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This novel tells the story of a young girl, Lizzie, who was rescued from the streets and given the chance of a new life. Lizzie blossomed into a woman with ideals and expectations, and began to realize that she no longer needed the support of the man she had once regarded as her saviour.
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The Forester Girl
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Set in the northern countryside of Victorian-era England, this spellbinding novel of good and evil, wealth and want, and the profound power of love is another major achievement in the career of one of the world's most widely read and beloved authors.
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The Glass Virgin
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The gently reared Annabella Lagrane is kept far away from the suffering lower classes. But as a young woman, Annabella learns that her blood is less than blue, She is in fact the daughter of one of her wastrel father Edmund's many mistresses, a brothel madam, and no relation to Edmund's puritanical wife Rosina. Shocked by this revelation, ...
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Justice is a Woman
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The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families - these objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the ...
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Bannaman Legacy
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The Silent Lady
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The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at ...
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Tinker's girl
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When young Jinnie Howlett's widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was indeed fortunate already to be an inmate of a northern workhouse, for with no other relatives, she might otherwise have ended up on the streets, a fate for children of her age that was, in the latter years of the nineteenth century, all too common. When, close to her ...
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Feathers in the Fire
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Davie Armstrong watched as his master, Angus McBain, thrashed young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had dishonoured her. And yet, not an hour later, Davie saw the two of them alone in the malthouse, and Molly was acting like a whore on market day. In a whirl of disbelieving rage, he overheard McBain's plan - to let him, Davie, take ...
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Solace of Sin
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When Connie buys a house on the moors, she has to negotiate with the abrupt Vincent O'Connor. She soon discovers that mystery is a way of life for Vincent, who has an increasing influence on her life. Then the shocking truth about the man with whom she shared many years of her life comes to light.
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Black Velvet Gown
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A novel which follows the fortunes of a widow as she returns with her children to her native place, where her new job as a housekeeper leads to many other opportunities for her and her family.
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Desert Crop
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Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s, so when Hector Stewart announced to his children that he was to marry Moira, a wealthy distant relative, it was Daniel the youngest who guessed the purpose of the union. This book focuses on Moira and a family conflict.
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The blind miller
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Mary Hetherington was a mother who dominated her family. She was kind, efficient and generous - providing they did what she wanted. But when David brought home Sarah from the 'wrong end' of the Fifteen Streets, a girl who brought life and laughter into her dustless house, she soon took against her. Then, when she discovered that Sarah was loved ...
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Kate Hannigans Girl
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It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be going well for the Prince family, but soon spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to haunt both her and Annie - an insidious threat that ...
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Dinner of Herbs
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Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met with a violent death and the boy was left with all memory gone.
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House of Women
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Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is ...
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Fanny McBride
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Fanny McBride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her fifties, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. All but one of her sons and daughters had married and left home, leaving her with spare time on her hands. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at ...
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