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List view record 41: The Bermondsey bookshopList view anchor tag for record 41: The Bermondsey bookshop
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The Bermondsey bookshop

Gibson, Mary (Romantic fiction writer)2020
Books
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss's struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate h...
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The Bermondsey bookshop

Gibson, Mary (Romantic fiction writer)2020
Books
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss's struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate h...
List view record 43: Beyond a broken skyList view anchor tag for record 43: Beyond a broken sky
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Beyond a broken sky

Fortin, Sue2022
Books
Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and the owner's son, Nate Hartwell, discover a body underneath one of the flagstones in the chapel, Rhoda cannot let the myster...
List view record 44: Big lies in a small townList view anchor tag for record 44: Big lies in a small town
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Big lies in a small town

Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-2020
Books
North Carolina, 2018. Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a 3-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Centre. Her dream of a career in the arts is put on hold - until a mysterious visitor makes her an...
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Big lies in a small town

Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-2020
Books
North Carolina, 2018. Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a 3-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Centre. Her dream of a career in the arts is put on hold - until a mysterious visitor makes her an...
List view record 46: The biscuit factory girlsList view anchor tag for record 46: The biscuit factory girls
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The biscuit factory girls

Mason, Elsie2020
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Newly married to dashing RAF officer, Tom, Irene Farley leaves behind her safe countryside life to move in with his family by the docks in South Shields. Little prepares her for the devastation the Jerry bombers have wreaked on the Sixteen Streets or that they would be living under her mother-in-...
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A bitter remedy

Hawkins, Alis2023
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Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus college fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to ac...
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A bitter remedy

Hawkins, Alis2023
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Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus college fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to ac...
[7 copies, 4 available, 1 reserve]
List view record 49: Black Country orphanList view anchor tag for record 49: Black Country orphan
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Black Country orphan

Murray, Annie2021
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The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world's chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler...
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Black Country orphan

Murray, Annie2021
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Set in the early 1900s in the Black Country. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoveri...
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