Hodder Stoughton: 1633 books
Lizzie
A brilliant tale of wartime fortitude
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
No matter what life throws at her, she refuses to give up . . .
Tiny, warm-hearted, and totally devoted to her charming rogue of a husband, Lizzie mothers her brood of nephews and nieces through the perils of the war-torn capital. As she struggles to make a home for them in the busy bomb shelters...
Autumn Alley
Enter a world of gas lights and horse-drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains...
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Autumn Alley: where the East End's most fascinating call their home . . .
Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles alongside her wayward...
Down Our Street
War isn't the only thing that could tear this family apart...
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
'A real East-End tale . . . brilliant!' - 5-STAR reader review
Golden-haired, sunny-natured Amy, youngest and dearest of Annie Flanagan's lively brood of thirteen, is the apple of her mother's eye. But with the outbreak of World War II, the Flanagan family is torn apart, shaken from their crowded...
Owen Oliver
A charming, intriguing tale of unrelenting love and the struggle against poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
A turbulent tale of a young man's growth from innocence to maturity in the harsh world of Victorian England.
In the teeming heart of nineteenth-century London, Owen Oliver walks out of his gloomy, unwelcoming lodgings and doesn't stop his travels until he reaches Kent.
There, Owen's...
by Claire Lorrimer
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Clementine Foster is young, unbelievably innocent, and wildly in love with a man who doesn?t even know of her existence. When, one golden summer night, she steps in front of his horse, he takes her with all the drunken arrogance of a young aristocrat used to having whatever he wanted. The repercussions...
by Denise Robins
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Lucia marries young, yielding more to her parents urgings than the dictates of
her heart. As the years go by, she grows to despise her brutish, egotistical
husband - finding contentment only in raising her two young daughters. Then
suddenly, Lucia falls gloriously in love, discovering the tenderness...
This Bed Thy Centre
The Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
'Striking first novel . . . qualities of vitality and humour which set it apart.' New York Times
Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this story of seduction and marriage,...
The Unspeakable Skipton
The Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess
Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', delve into the sparkling and satirical world of Pamela Hansford Johnson with this wickedly funny tragicomedy about a destitute English author living...
The Holiday Friend
The Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
'A powerful tragedy'Independent
Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this story of seduction and marriage, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard and Barbara Pym.
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Gavin...
by Denise Robins
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A darkly captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1929 and now available for the first time in eBook.
Marion Grayle is in love! Overwhelmingly, totally in love. Wild and elemental as her native Dartmoor, with her flaming red-gold hair,...
by Denise Robins
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
When Barry Elderton comes back from Ceylon to marry Virginia Brame, it
is to find her the wife of the wealthy Sir Ian Kingleigh. So Barry turns
to Virginia's cousin Joan for consolation. But she, loving Barry as much
as he loved Virginia, knows that for him she is only 'second best'. Can
she ever...
by Skye Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Skye's story is one of survival against the odds. Abandoned by her mother at the age of four and placed in a series of horrible institutions, she learnt to fend for herself from an early age. After a horrific rape when she was ten, she ran from the care home and went to live with the gypsies in the...
by Denise Robins
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
When both her father and mother pass away within a few months of each
other, Clem Wright suddenly finds herself all alone in the world without
a real friend to turn to.
She takes a job, becoming personal assistant to the brilliant osteopath,
Charles Maddison - and soon her troubles are forgotten...
by Denise Robins
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Philippa had come out to Malaya five years ago, full of ideals, to marry George March. And for five years they have been `happily married? ? Philippa would never `fool around? like the other bored planters? wives in Khota.
In the club, where hypocritical gossip abounded, it never touched Philippa...