Blogs in April 2025

Secrets of the Shipyard Girls 8th April 2025

(The Shipyard Girls Series, 3) Sunderland, 1941 As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them strength to carry on. Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy,...

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A Woman of Courage 7th November 2023

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

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The Sixpenny Orphan 7th May 2023

‘Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don’t know how to live apart.’ After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a...

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A Mother’s Christmas Wish 20th November 2022

‘I hope this Christmas is better than last year’s.’ Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help...

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Saltwater 13th November 2022

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

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