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LIBERATION DAY

LIBERATION DAY
  • Author(s): Pippa McCathie
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

She wanted to get back at her cheating boyfriend but stealing his boat wasn’t a great idea. When Caro Bennett finds her boyfriend in the arms of another woman, she decides to get her own back by commandeering his...

The French House

The French House
  • Author(s): Jacquie Bloese
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

In Nazi-occupied Guernsey, the wrong decision can destroy a life… Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Émile is no stranger to isolation – or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change...

The Inheritance – The Guernsey Novels Book 7

The Inheritance – The Guernsey Novels Book 7
  • Author(s): Anne Allen
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th C and modern day

How close were Victor Hugo and his copyist? 1862 Young widow Eugénie is left bereft when her husband dies suddenly and faces an uncertain future in Guernsey. A further tragedy brings her to the attention of Monsieur Victor Hugo,...

The Many Seas to Guernsey

The Many Seas to Guernsey
  • Author(s): Catherine Taylor
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s WW2

In the last golden years before Europe erupts into WWII a young English writer and a German Roman Catholic priest-in-training meet by chance on the small British island of Guernsey – and are drawn into a forbidden, all-consuming love....

The soldier’s Wife

The soldier’s Wife
  • Author(s): Margaret Leroy
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom...

Toilers of the Sea

Toilers of the Sea
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Guernsey… St Malo… Anew translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground...

Where Seagulls Dare and other tales from Herm Island

Where Seagulls Dare and other tales from Herm Island
  • Author(s): Paul Sherman
  • Location(s): Guernsey, Herm
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Mostly the present, with one set in WW2

The tiny Channel Island of Herm measures one and a half miles long by half a mile wide. This book comprises twelve short stories drawing on the island’s history, myths and legends – each evocative of an island location....

Zoffany’s daughter: love and treachery on a small island

Zoffany’s daughter: love and treachery on a small island
  • Author(s): Stephen Foster
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1820s

‘I am only obeying the law that Nature has engraved indelibly in the heart of a mother, to never be separated from her child.’ 2nd July 1825: Cecilia Zoffany, daughter of a famous artist, flees to the island of...

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