Pan Books Secrets of the Chocolate Girls Murray Annie

April 1941 • Almost losing her life in a bomb blast while serving in the Women's Volunteer Service has made Ann Gilby take stock of what's really important - her family • With daughter Sheila back home, and Joy still working munitions at the Cadbury factory and engaged to her soldier sweetheart, home life feels more settled too. Ann has even come to an uneasy truce with her husband, Len, despite her recent discovery of his infidelity and the fact that he has fathered a child with another woman • But what Ann has not reckoned with is Marianne, Len’s other woman, turning up on her doorstep - a woman with a mysterious past • Only Ann has secrets of her own and one day soon she knows she will have to tell her youngest child, Martin, who his father really is

The second novel in the uplifting railway girls series. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Margaret Dickinson • Manchester, November 1940 • As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls, they will discover the true meaning of friendship • For Dot, her job on the railways is everything. Transporting parcels around the country gives her pride that she is doing her bit for the war effort, but a growing friendship causes problems when home and work collide • Joan loves her boyfriend Bob dearly, but when tragedy strikes, her heart is torn apart, and she is forced to make a decision that could hurt those she loves most • Meanwhile Mabel has finally found a place to call home and her relationship seems to be going from strength to strength

Sunderland, 1941 • As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them strength to carry on • Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy, but baby Hope’s first weeks are bittersweet. Hope's father is missing at sea, and with their future as a family so uncertain, Gloria must lean on her girls for support • Meanwhile, head welder Rosie has turned her back on love to keep her double life secret. But her persistent beau is determined to find out the truth and if he does, it could ruin her • And there is finally a glimmer of hope for Polly and her family when Bel and Joe fall in love. But it isn’t long before a scandalous revelation threatens to pull them all apart

In Annie Murray's bestselling Chocolate Girls, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, where their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David • Edie marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen, and having lost her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her care… • Ruby, meanwhile, doesn't want to be left behind in the wedding stakes, and settles for marriage with Frank • Finally there's Janet, kind-hearted and susceptible to male charm, who is hurt desperately by an affair with a married man • David, the child who steals Edie's heart as she brings him up through a time none of them will ever forget, is the love of all their lives

Christmas with the Teashop Girls is a heartwarming and moving story of wartime love, bravery and hope, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest • It is late 1940 and the war feels closer to home than ever for Rose Neville and her staff at the Lyon's Teashop in Margate. The worry of rationing hangs overhead as the Nippies do their best to provide a happy smile and a hot cup of tea for their customers. When a heavy bombing raid targets the Kent coastline, Lyon's is badly hit, throwing the future of the cafe into jeopardy • The light in Rose's life is her dashing fiance Capt. Ben Hargreaves and planning their Christmas Eve wedding. But she must also plan to take two new step-daughters into her life and get on the right side of her wealthy mother-in-law, Lady Diana

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city – from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between – to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them

Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama • A Battle of Ideals • It is 1933 and, at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leader in the British Union of Fascists • An Evil Uprising • Berlin is in turmoil. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Many are resolved to oppose Hitler’s brutal regime – but are they willing to betray their country? • A Global Conflict on a Scale Never Seen Before • Shaken by the tyranny and the prospect of war, the lives of five families become ever more enmeshed

Paths of the Dead is the thrilling ninth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod • When Amy MacKenzie agrees to attend a meeting at a local spiritualist church, the last person she expects to hear calling to her from beyond the grave is her son. The son whom she'd only spoken to an hour before • Then the body of a young man is found inside a Neolithic stone circle high above the city of Glasgow and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is soon on the case. The hands have been severed and there is a stone in the victim's mouth with the number five scratched on it. DI Michael McNab is certain it's a gangland murder, but Rhona isn't convinced • When a second body is found in similar circumstances, a pattern begins to emerge, of a killer intent on masterminding a gruesome Druidic game that everyone will be forced to play

Археолог, разведчица, арабист, лингвист, писательница, поэтесса, фотограф, альпинистка и созидательница нации, Гертруда Белл родилась в 1868 году в мире привилегий и изобилия, но она отвернулась от всего этого из-за своей страсти к арабским народам, став архитектором независимого королевства Ирак и увидев, как оно меняется. его первый король Фейсал благополучно взошел на трон в 1921 году. "Королева пустыни. Необыкновенная жизнь Гертруды Белл", написанная Джорджиной Хауэлл - это ее история, живо рассказанная и безупречно исследованная, основанная на собственных трудах Гертруды, как опубликованных, так и неопубликованных • Книга на английском языке • Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921

В книге “Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess” Аманда Оуэн рассказывает нам самые разнообразные истории из своей сельской жизни. Мы узнаем о том, как они с семьей отчаянно пытались найти пропавшего теленка; о том, как ее нижнее белье утащили городские ласточки, чтобы обустроить свое гнездо; а также о том, как одна суровая зима чуть не заставила ее сдаться. И вот во всей этой суматохе ее внимание привлекает один интересный проект… • Свою ферму они арендуют, и как только соседский дом выставляют на продажу, Аманда решает воспользоваться возможностью и купить его – все ради детей. Дом старый и требует ремонта, а денег у них мало, поэтому Аманда решает сама взяться за работу. В этом ей поможет путешествующий монах, сантехник и ее муж Клайв. Стоит сказать, что все идет не по плану! • Аманда Оуэн наслаждается жизнью на ферме со своим мужем Клайвом и девятью детьми

Глазго, 1932-й год. Когда зятя одного из богатейших кораблестроителей города находят в реке Клайд с перерезанным горлом, расследование его убийства поручают инспектору Джимми Дрегхорну. Даже несмотря на сложные отношения, связывающие его и Ислу Локхарт, вдову жертвы • Чтобы понять, кто и почему желал убитому смерти, Дрегхорну и его напарнику, Арчи МакДэйду по прозвищу Бонни, придётся погрузиться в мрачные тайны города, сталкиваясь и с его скорым на расправу преступным миром, и с вероломством высших эшелонов общества Глазго • А тем временем жестокий убийца оставляет за собой след из трупов. Дело становится всё запутаннее, и напрашивается вопрос: получится ли у Дрегхорна поймать преступника? Или же он даже не доживёт до конца расследования? • Откройте для себя мрачный криминальный роман Робби Моррисона, действие которого разворачивается в Глазго образца 1932-го года - городе, который так и не оправился после Первой мировой войны и который разрывают на части банды и религиозные разногласия