Reading Matters

The Liverpool Nightingales

In Victorian Liverpool the first Nurses’ Home opens its doors to a desperate city. One act of kindness will change a young woman’s life forever when housemaid Maud Linklater witnesses an appalling accident. PB, 416pp. Ref. H176034 £8.99

Frontline Nurses On Duty

When war is declared in 1914, Leonora volunteers with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, but is torn between duty and love...

PB, 386pp.

Ref. H178871 £6.99

Workhouse

Nightingale

On the streets and pregnant, Dora’s future looks bleak. Can a girl from the workhouse ever achieve anything, let alone become one of Florence Nightingale’s nurses?

PB, 400pp. Ref. H179737 £6.99

Secrets of the Frontline Nurses

In the midst of the First World War, Leonora is reunited with her sweetheart and falls pregnant, but daren’t tell for fear he would send her home to her friends... PB, 320pp.

Ref. H185222 £6.99

A Songbird in Wartime

Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. They gave her employment as a chambermaid, but it’s also where she met her fiancé Tom. When theatre agent Roland stays at the hotel and hears Emily singing, he is determined to take her away to Bristol PB, 448pp.

Ref. H193239 £7.99

A Rose Among Thorns

Despite losing her mother when young, Sassy has grown up surrounded by love: although poor, she is happy. So Sassy is devastated when her father marries wealthy widow Elizabeth Bonner. Sassy often escapes to the company of her childhood friends, but the bond is soon threatened...

PB, 480pp.

Ref. H194363 £8.99

Sunday’s Child

Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship - until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society and meets Freddie Ashton, the man of her dreams, but... PB, 512pp.

Ref. H194361 £7.99

A Daughter’s Destiny

Emerald Winter’s life suddenly changes when her father disappears, leaving the family in enormous debt. Forced to throw themselves at the mercy of Emerald’s uncle who begrudgingly allows them on his farm but desperate to find work, Emerald must leave to care for and aunt she’s never met. PB, 400pp.

Ref. H194362 £7.99

The Locked Room

Ruth is in London clearing out her mother’s belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963. PB, 368pp.

Ref. H194366 £8.99

No One Home

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party. But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace. No bodies, no evidence and no clues. Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker to solve the conundrum. PB, 496pp.

Ref. H184218 £9.99

Lily’s Promise

Lily’s Promise is a remarkable account of Lily Ebert’s experiences during the Holocaust. The accuracy of dates and facts in her book about her time in the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau contributes to the chorus of voices thanks to which we can get closer to the human experience in a world of utter dehumanisation. PB, 320pp.

Ref. H193334 £8.99

The Devil’s Hand

It has been two decades since 9/11. The enemy has been patient, the enemy has been learning, the enemy has been adapting & now the enemy is ready to strike again. Former Navy SEAL James Reece must embark on a topsecret CIA mission of retribution twenty years in the making in this riveting and timely thriller that will leave you gasping for breath. PB, 554pp.

Ref. H193241 £8.99

The Ink Black Heart

When frantic Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Robin and business partner Cormoran Strike become embroiled in uncovering Anomie’s true identity. HB, 1024pp. Ref. H194368 £25.00

Better Off Dead

Reacher never backs down from a problem and he’s about to find a big one on a deserted Arizona road where his Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems - the nearby border town is populated by people who would rather die than reveal their secrets... HB, 352pp. Ref. H188768 £20.00

Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London

In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood amidst the horrors of the Blitz and the realities of daily bombing raids, gas masks and rationing. PB, 224pp.

Ref. H194383 £12.99