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Юная Китти Кокс, родившаяся в бедности и живущая под крышей своего жестокого шурина, мечтает работать в магазине женской одежды в Вест-Энде — за миллион миль от реальности, в которой она живет, собирая мусор на берегах Темзы • Вскоре вмешивается судьба, и Китти оказывается служанкой в доме у сэра Десмонда и леди Арабеллы Мейблтон, в Мейфэре. Из-за издевательств кухарок Китти вскоре попадает под крыло леди Арабеллы, и тогда впервые в жизни Китти осмеливается… надеяться на лучшее • Но у леди «Беллы» есть тайна, и, не в силах продолжать жить со своим властным мужем, она решает уйти, борясь за опеку над их дочерью Леони • Китти готова на все ради своей хозяйки, но ее преданность подвергается суровому испытанию, поскольку вся их жизнь превращается в хаос, и Китти снова сталкивается с бедностью и лишениями в трущобах Ист-Энда

Тилли не всегда будет бедной, ведь она это твердо решила • Уволенная с должности горничной по недоразумению, Тилли Тру вынуждена вернуться домой. Но она полна решимости добиться чего-то в своей жизни, и вместо того, чтобы признаться в этом своей бедной семье, она снова отправляется на поиски работы • Ее путешествие приводит ее в лондонский суд, мрачный дом священника в одном из самых печально известных районов Ист-Энда и дом с дурной репутацией • Но когда она поддается опасному обаянию Барнаби Пэлгрейва, Тилли вскоре обнаруживает, что ее неприятности только начинаются • "Tilly True" Дилли Корт — удивительно захватывающий и трогательный, богатый историческими подробностями, дарующий надежду и согревающий сердце роман от автора бестселлеров №1 Sunday Times

После смерти мужа у Эффи Грей наступили действительно трудные времена. Вынужденная жить на узкой лодке, принадлежащей ее свекру-тирану Джейкобу, Эффи должна преодолеть собственное отчаяние, чтобы быть в силах защитить своего брата Тома и маленького сына Джорджи • Жизнь становится еще куда более невыносимой после того, как Джейкоб нанимает злодея Солтера и его мерзкую жену Сэл управлять баржей. Когда Тома отправляют прочь без гроша за душой, Эффи будет вынуждена сделать выбор, чтобы защитить свою семью • Движимая отчаянием, Эффи крадет спрятанные деньги Джейкоба и бежит, отправляясь на поиски Тома вместе со своим сыном. Несмотря ни на что, она создаст дом для маленького Джорджи и защитит его от бед • "A Mother’s Wish" Дилли Корт — отличная книга в подарок, трогательный роман от автора бестселлеров №1 Sunday Times

The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France • Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown • Amid the glittering fetes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir

The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs • In the 15th Century, Spain is full of intrigue and threatened by civil war. The independent young princess Isabella has become the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother, kept as a virtual prisoner at the sordid court of her half-brother, France's Henry IV • Just sixteen years old, all seems lost: is Isabella fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious womanisers in Castile? • Numbed with grief and fear, Isabella holds onto one cherished hope: that one day, she will escape her tormentors and marry Ferdinand, the handsome young Prince of Aragon - her only true betrothed

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy • While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is darkening with tragedy is fraught with the kind of misunderstandings that bring as much laughter as pain, and as many dreams as nightmares. How does a child cope when faced with a wall of adult secrets? What does a mother do when her biggest fear starts to become a reality? Because it's the Sixties, and because it's shameful to own up to feelings, Eddress tries to deny the truth, while Susan creates a world that will never allow her mother to leave • Set in a world where a fridge is a luxury, cars have starting handles, and where bingo and coupons bring in the little extras, Just One More Day is a deeply moving true-life account, told by mother and daughter, of how the spectre of death moved into their family, and how hard they tried to pretend it wasn't there

Liverpool, 1939: Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent step-father in the middle of the night, and finds herself stranded on a station platform completely alone • Desperate to know what has become of her beloved mother, who she had no choice but to leave behind, Lizzy returns the next day only to find her home deserted. Devastated, Lizzy joins forces with her old school friend Dolly and Clara, an escaped evacuee, and vows to find her mother whatever it takes • But the war rages on and demands on the home front take Lizzy's life in a host of unexpected directions, and hopes of finding her mother gradually start to fade • If Lizzy can muster the strength to keep searching, she might just get her Christmas wish after all

Liverpool, 1940: There comes a moment in every child’s life when they must learn to stand on their own two feet • For fifteen-year-old Ellie Lancton, that time has come all too soon. The death of her mother and the increase in air raids leaves Ellie alone and in grave danger. It’s not long before she is forced to leave her beloved Liverpool behind and cross the Mersey to seek refuge in the countryside • But as the war takes comforts away, so too does it bring new opportunities; for work, new friendships, and perhaps a little love… • It will take all of Ellie’s courage to find her way without her mother’s guidance. But if Ellie can soldier on with grace and dignity, there might just be light at the end of the tunnel

When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. All she knows are the sights and sounds of London's East End - but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind, knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl and play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. Playing mother is nothing new for Sally - their real mother Florrie, a good-time girl, hasn't even come to the station to wave them off and Ernie, crippled at an early age by polio, is used to depending on his older sister • When they arrive in Cliffehaven, they're taken to live at the Beach View Boarding House where they're welcomed by the open-hearted Reilly family headed up by warm, loving Peggy, and life begins to improve

Liverpool, 1923 • Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can • She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues the pair of them from drowning. Clem works on the Canal boat, The Liverpool Rose, with Jake Pridmore and his wife, plying between the great cities of Leeds and Liverpool • But Lizzie's situation at home starts to worsen as her uncle grows surlier and more violent. Eventually the worst happens and Lizzie is forced to flee from the Court or risk serious injury, perhaps even death

Memories are short on HMS Royston - they have to be • As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs she must carry out her vital role whatever the conditions, whatever the risk • Sub-Lieutenant Royce is newly assigned to MTB 1991, joining a crew already seasoned by death and fear • Now with only three months' sea-experience behind him, Royce must learn the job the hard way - in the tough school of combat • A classic tale of naval warfare from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master of naval fiction, who served with the Royal Navy on convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the North Sea. He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic Wars

Two sisters • One extraordinary true story • Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with their father missing in action, sisters Barbie and Eva were confronted with an impossible choice • Should they stay and face invasion or risk their lives to find their mother? • Together, they set out on a perilous three-hundred mile journey on foot across a country ravaged by war. Fuelled by courage and love, Eva and seven-year-old Barbie encounter incredible hardship, extraordinary bravery, and overwhelming generosity • Against all odds, they both survived • But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed • This is the powerful true story of their escape