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Planes to deliver. A war to be won • Bobbie Fraser, Mary Holland and Jean Thornton are Atta Girls - part of the Air Transport Auxiliary team flying planes between bases. Taking to the air in anything they're given, their work is dangerous but their courage always comes through • Now there's a new girl joining the ranks - Canadian Viv Robertson, who is bright, brash and brave. But can Viv settle into her new home with the other girls? And when life on the ground leaves them as vulnerable as in the air, can they stick together through the tough times ahead and ultimately fly to victory? • A heart-warming, romantic story of friendship, camaraderie and triumph over adversity that fans of Donna Douglas, Nancy Revell and Elaine Everest will adore

The Plumberry School of Comfort Food was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package • Putting other people first doesn’t always mean you have to come second… • Verity has lost everything she loved; her best friend and baking companion has died, taking with her their shared passion for cooking. To top it off, it looks like her career and love life might soon follow suit • Although she’s very much in need of some time for herself, Verity instead leaps at the opportunity to help a friend find her feet and help establish a cooking school. Just as long as she doesn’t have to cook anything! Even so, it’s all far from easy, even with the comfort of new friendship and a taste of fresh romance • So when tragedy strikes at the very heart of the cookery school Verity once again risks losing everything

'Anything to Anywhere!' • That's the motto of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the brave team of female pilots who fly fighter planes between bases at the height of WWII • Mary is a driver for the ATA and although she yearns to fly a Spitfire, she fears her humble background will hold her back. After all, glamorous Angela is set to be the next 'Atta Girl' on recruitment posters. Bobbie learned to fly in her father's private plane and Jean was taught the queen's English at grammar school before joining the squad. Dedicated and resilient the three girls rule the skies: weathering storms and dodging enemy fire. Mary can only dream of joining them - until she gets the push she needs to overcome her self-doubt • Thrown together, the girls form a tight bond as they face the perils of their job

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years old, fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man, a woman living in Britain today • How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and space

'Calling All Women!' • It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on, girls from all over the country are signing up to the Women's Land Army. Renowned for their camaraderie and spirit, it is these brave women who step in to take on the gruelling farm work from the men conscripted into the armed forces • When Yorkshire mill girl Una joins the cause, she wonders how she'll adapt to country life. Luckily she's quickly befriended by more experienced Land Girls Brenda and Grace. But as Christmas draws ever near, the girls' resolve is tested as scandals and secrets are revealed, lovers risk being torn apart, and even patriotic loyalties are called into question • With only a week to go until the festivities, can the strain of wartime still allow for the magic of Christmas? • A wonderful, festive tale of friendship, romance and triumph over adversity that fans of Daisy Styles, Donna Douglas and Call the Midwife will adore

Дикси – самая младшая из бриллиантовых девочек. Несмотря на то, что они с сестрами совершенно разные, их мама всегда учила их держаться вместе • И вот теперь она ждет еще одного ребенка и уверена, что на этот раз у нее родится мальчик. Мама считает, что им нужно переехать, но их новый дом грязный, обветшалый и неухоженный…а еще не успели они разобрать свои вещи, как у мамы начались схватки! Смогут ли бриллиантовые девочки подготовиться к возвращению мамы из роддома? И разгадает ли кто-нибудь еще (кроме Дикси) мамин секрет? • «Бриллиантовые девочки» – захватывающий, увлекательный и трогательный роман от признанной детской писательницы Жаклин Уилсон. Произведение станет отличным подарком для детей • Книга на английском языке • Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl

Викторианский Лондон, 1851 год. На троне восседает королева Виктория. Вот-вот откроется Всемирная выставка! • Люси Локет живет вместе с отцом, новой мамой и новым ребенком. Они отпустили ее любимую няню и заменили ее ужасной гувернанткой. Люси хочется человеческого отношения к себе...а еще веселья – в ее семье этого очень не хватает • Китти Фишер – уличная артистка, которая зарабатывает на жизнь акробатикой. Она выросла на улице и всегда полагалась лишь на свои способности, принимая помощь лишь от доброго старика. Но его больше нет. Китти совсем одна • Люси убегает из дома, и Китти объясняет ей, как выживать – например, где найти лучшие остатки от пикника. Люси ловит все на лету и сама обучает Китти всему, что знает – как общаться с людьми, как получить бесплатное питание и петь красивые мелодии для толпы

November, 1941 • Christmas is coming... and despite the blackout, shortages and a constant threat of air raids, the inhabitants of Kelthorpe on the Yorkshire coast are determined that war won't stop them celebrating • The run-up to Christmas sees sisters Connie and Lizzie, and their good friend Pamela, busier than ever. Between their jobs, carol-singing rehearsals with the church choir and night shifts doing their bit as Air Raid Wardens and ambulance drivers, it's all go • But when Connie and Lizzie's dear dad falls ill, their sweethearts Tom and Bill are called up by the Royal Navy for dangerous mine-sweeping duties, and Pamela's sweetheart Fred is targeted by vicious locals, the girls have to believe in miracles to keep soldiering on • Can their dearest wishes come true this Christmas?

Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016 • From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain. This third volume tells of Alan’s early political skirmishes as a trades union leader, where his negotiating skills and charismatic style soon came to the notice of Tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party • As a result, Alan was chosen to stand in the constituency of Hull West and Hessle, and entered Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997. But this is no self-aggrandizing memoir of Westminster politicking and skulduggery

Jenny is determined to make her own way in the world, and she secures a job as the kitchen maid in a grand house in Yorkshire. Gradually, she gains the attention of the young master of the house, and they fall in love.But their hopes and dreams turn to nightmares, culminating in a scandal that will force Jenny to leave behind everything she knows • Cast aside by her own family, Jenny faces many difficulties until an usual promise changes the course of her life. Jenny the kitchen maid becomes the mistress of her own grand house. Although she tries to fit in with this new world, however, she never forgets the words that the gypsy told her: that one day she will return to where she was once happy - and discover her true love • If you've liked books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity

'The police belonged to another world - the world they saw on the television or in the papers. Not theirs.' • When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing on their gap year in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft and frantic with worry • Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth - and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, who she hasn't seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. This time it's personal • And as the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think

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 first shown the door - but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years • What Irene - the silent lady of the title - had been doing, and where she had been, gradually emerged over the following weeks as Armstrong met the unlikely benefactors who had befriended her and helped her to build a useful and satisfying life in a sheltered environment