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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...

Never Anyone But You

Never Anyone But You
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): France, Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A small city in western France, the early 1900s. Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for drawing, is entranced by brilliant but troubled Lucie, the daughter of a Jewish newspaper magnate, and the two young women embark...

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 Hidden

The Hidden
  • Author(s): Mary Chamberlain
  • Location(s): Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back to WW2

Dora Simon and Joe O Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she...

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 Last Kings of Sark

The Last Kings of Sark
  • Author(s): Rosa Rankin-Gee
  • Location(s): Sark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local...

The Lighthouse Sisters

The Lighthouse Sisters
  • Author(s): Gill Thompson
  • Location(s): Jersey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World war two

1996: The war may have ended decades earlier, but for the elegant woman sitting alone now, the images live on in her memory: her sister’s carefree laughter, the inky black of a German soldier’s boots, the little boats that...

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....

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