Allison: 698 books

Little Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood abruptly ends with the sudden death of both her parents in a typhoid epidemic. While her kind Aunt Polly takes her in, Clare longs to leave the cramped house in Belfast and return to the country. So she seizes the opportunity to return...

The summer of 1957 is the happiest of times for Clare Hamilton, despite a recent loss. She will shortly embark on her final year at Queen’s University, Belfast, and she is engaged to marry her childhood sweetheart, Andrew. Together they plan for a future which will take them far beyond the green...

Every party needs good food! Don’t be the one that shows up without a dish to share. The ready-made appetizers at the grocery store look tasty, but they are overpriced. With our simple appetizer recipes, you’ll have time to spare and money in your pocket. All of these recipes can be made in 15...

‘The end of the old world’ people said about the long hot summer of 1914. It was the last season of optimism, of certainty about the future as the sun set on the Edwardian age.That summer Aunt Tilly comes to stay with her brother the Rector and his four lively daughters in the sleepy Sussex village...

‘A DARK AND MACABRE ATMOSPHERE THAT FEELS FRESH AND ORIGINAL’ THE TIMES HISTORICAL BOOK OF THE MONTH Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. Charlotte has many secrets, and when she’s found on the moor with...

‘A gripping read from start to finish’ Carol Rivers, author of A Wartime Christmas 1920, Manchester. Carrie Jenkins is trying on her wedding dress, eagerly anticipating becoming Mrs Billy Shipton. But all too soon she is reeling from the news that her beloved father was shot for desertion...

May 1915. Kingdom Lock and his faithful sidekick, Siddhartha Singh are gunned down on the streets of Basra and suspicion falls on German spy, Wilhelm Wassmuss. Major Ross believes Wassmuss is not only still alive but that he is behind the assassination of a senior Turkish officer, the death of whom...

There’s a fine line between fact and fiction… Following the publication of his latest crime novel, Barclay Curle receives a letter from a woman accusing him of writing about the murders she has committed. Is it just the wild ramblings of a crazed fan, or could there really be a violent murderess...

Escaping to America from the turmoil of her life back in Edinburgh, DI Jim Meldrum's daughter, Betty, is swept off her feet by a handsome man from back home. A whirlwind romance quickly culminates in marriage. But what are the secrets he is hiding? Handsome and rich, but still a mystery, has Betty...

Set against the backdrop of World War I and amid the beautiful Cornish countryside, this is the story of a mother and daughter, bound together by a collection of pressed flowers and the memories they hold. To the delight of her parents, Violet Prideaux is set to marry local squire Weston...

Claudia has crafted her life carefully. She runs a sweetshop, has a few close friends, dates a handsome journalist. There is nothing to alert anyone to her whereabouts or her secret. It is this secret that Claudia dreads anyone finding out. That she is a witch is no secret, but it is something...

Prince Antone Salvatore is determined to uphold his duty—both to his blossoming country and to his family. So, when the ghost of a one night stand comes knocking on his door with the news that he’s to be a father, there’s only one option—he must marry this woman and secure his child’s place...

‘INTELLIGENT AND WELL-WRITTEN’ HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY Cambridge, 1940. Snow is falling thick and fast on a cold winter’s night. As a college porter makes his nightly rounds, he is startled to hear a boy’s desperate screams for help coming from the icy river below. But by dawn the...

Fallow Glyph daydreams during class, asks too many questions and pushes the rules. Even worse, he is haunted by strange nightmares and is fascinated by the Border, the monstrous black wall that all villagers in Wyndeswytch must avoid … or face punishment.When his feet lead him to the Border,...