Ebury Digital imprint: 1072 books
Girl A
The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BBC DRAMA ‘THREE GIRLS’ **
What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies there, sobbing, looking up at them...as they come to me one by one.
This is the shocking true story of how a young girl from Rochdale...
Heroes of the Holocaust
Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers....
The Mill Girls
Moving true stories of love and loss from inside Lancashire's cotton mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
'I dragged my heels all the way to the mill. ‘I can’t do it!’ I sulked. Mother sighed and shook her head. My heart sank. Of course, I’d seen the mill hundreds of times before, but now it was different – now, I was going in. I’d never seen a place so depressing; I wanted to cry.'
With...
Fatty Batter
How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit...
by Maggie Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
She's no more than an unpaid servant...
Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and, sent to live with her aunt in her boarding house, she grows up desperately craving affection.
And although she finds friendship – and even love – in the boarding house,...
by Maggie Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
All she wants is a family of her own...
Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A childhood spent in poverty, skivvying for other people, leaves her with no prospects, no family...
Yet Lottie is bright and has ambitions for a better life....
by Maggie Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Torn between love and duty...
After the birth of their son, Eliza naively hopes her husband Jack will put his gambling habit behind him and become more responsible. But then he loses their home and abandons her, leaving Eliza with no choice but to return to her parents’ house.
She...
Detour de France
An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of travel experience (Weymouth,...
by Evelyn Prentis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another and not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. "Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in being paid for so little labour.'
At...
My Sister's Wishes
My Promise to Make my Twin’s Last Wishes Come True
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
‘Just like that, I wasn’t a twin anymore… It broke my heart that I hadn’t been able to save her, but I could keep a part of her alive by finishing what she’d started’
The bond between twins is so strong it can never be broken – even in death. When Melissa lost her twin sister...
Quit Alcohol (for a month)
How to quit alcohol for a month or more
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Start the year fresh and sober this dry January and reset your drinking habits in 28 days
Tired of hangovers and splitting headaches? Want to save the cash you spend on cocktails?
With over 3 million adults taking part in Dry January in 2017, not to mention Dryathlon, Stoptober, or plain...
by Maggie Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Can she escape the hardships of her past?
Growing up in London’s tough East End, young Sara Porter has had to learn to take care of herself. Her mother resents her maternal responsibilities and has never shown her daughter the slightest bit of love.
Starved of affection, Sara vows...
by Maggie Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
From rags to riches...
With the Armistice only a few months passed, times are hard for eighteen-year-old Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life.
When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a...
by Maggie Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In his absence, she will find her strength…
After a childhood in poverty and leaving school to work at the age of thirteen, life is beginning to look up for Brenda Wilson. Freshly married to her handsome soldier husband, she finds her true vocation in hairdressing.
However, Brenda...