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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Other Side Of Paradise The Other Side Of Paradise Margaret Mayhew An epic love story under the shadow of warShe lived only for pleasure...until war forced her to find courage she did not know she had, and love where she least expected it. It is 1941, and while Brit… OL15174850W
The Other Side of Paradise The Other Side of Paradise Margaret Mayhew *She lived only for pleasure...until war forced her to find courage she did not know she had, and love where she least expected it.* It is 1941, and while Britain is in the grip of war, life in th… OL19359300W
Lifeline (Village Mysteries #6) Lifeline (Village Mysteries #6) Margaret Mayhew Major Cuthbertson stumbles across a body among the fragrant tomato plants. A bloody spade lies next to the face-down victim. Ruth Harvey has taken over the manor in Frog End, where she runs a succ… OL20749148W
Bluebirds Bluebirds Margaret Mayhew 1939 - Officer Felicity Newman and a ragtag group of young women arrive at RAF Colston. They are the first of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force: brave female pilots ready to do their bit. But Statio… OL24209093W
The Boat Girls The Boat Girls Margaret Mayhew It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. They become friends when they join a band of women working the canal boat delivering goods and doing a man's… OL24686969W
The cry of the owl The cry of the owl Margaret Mayhew A romantic period novel set on a lonely, eerie English marsh, in the great days of smuggling. The most shocking thing that Tamazine had heard in her life was uttered by her father on his deathbed: "B… OL5261598W
Quadrille Quadrille Margaret Mayhew Compelled by his ageing Aunt Augusta to take a wife or risk losing his inheritance, Lord Nicholas Strickland is in a quandary. He has no wish to marry at present, particularly not his aunt's favoured… OL5261607W
Quadrille Quadrille Margaret Mayhew Compelled by his ageing Aunt Augusta to take a wife or risk losing his inheritance, Lord Nicholas Strickland is in a quandary. He has no wish to marry at present, particularly not his aunt's favoured… OL5261608W
The Railway King The Railway King Margaret Mayhew Kirby England, a blunt and rugged nineteenth-century Yorkshireman, was born to poverty in the Dales, but climbed with ruthless ambition to become the rich and famous Railway King. He was surprised wh… OL5261609W
Rosebuds Rosebuds Margaret Mayhew A novel of lifelong friendship, in the tradition of Rosamunde Pilcher. Flora and Tally first meet as schoolgirls in 1947. Theirs is an unlikely friendship, born of the fact that both girls are out… OL5261612W
The Boat Girls The Boat Girls Margaret Mayhew It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. For Frances, her life of seeming privilege has been a lonely one. Brave and strong, stifled by her tradit… OL5261615W
Old Soldiers Never Die (Village Mysteries #1) Old Soldiers Never Die (Village Mysteries #1) Margaret Mayhew Meet the Colonel (hardly anyone calls him Hugh). He moves to a quiet country cottage in Dorset, which he’d once visited with his late wife. He finds it easy to slip into local society and decides … OL5261617W
Our Yanks Our Yanks Margaret Mayhew It was August 1943 - and the inhabitants of King's Thorpe had lived with the idea of invasion for some time – but by the Germans, not the Americans. The village had never seen anything like them befo… OL5261618W
Those in Peril Those in Peril Margaret Mayhew In 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to leave his studio in Brittany and, in his small motor boat, make the short but perilous journey to England. His aim … OL5261622W