A gripping saga of love, loss and hope in wartime as we follow the fortunes of the Kilmaster family through the dramatic years of World War I and its aftermath.  The Great War is at its height, and while RSM Probyn Kilmaster is in France, training raw recruits to send to the trenches, in the Yorkshire pit village of Denaby Main his wife, Grace, contends with the hardships of bringing up their children alone. But when Probyn returns safely home at last and it seems life can begin anew, tragedy strikes the Kilmasters, and for Probyn's daughters: Augusta, Maddie, Mims, and especially the sensitive Beata, their father's well-meaning attempt to keep the family together by giving them a stepmother proves more than they can bear -- and each has to find her own way to escape the cruelty and oppression that has unwittingly been visited upon them.

A Different Kind of Love

Kelly, Sheelagh

Harpercollins Pb

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Secrets of Our Hearts

Romance

Harper

An Unsuitable Mother

Nell is just eighteen when war breaks out, which means leaving her safe office job and starting to train as an auxiliary nurse. This brings her face to face with the grim realities of war, but she has a secret to comfort her: a soldier she's met and fallen in love with, who's promised to return to marry her. Then bombs fall on York, and for Nell, this coincides with a dreadful tragedy she can share with nobody. She must carry on, overcoming her hidden sorrow, but she never gives up hope that one day things will be right again.

A dramatic saga that sweeps from the dust of the Boer War to the carnage of the Great War, with a bitter private conflict sandwiched in between!  Corporal Russ Hazelwood loves his wife Rachel, but she is far away, and the African woman seems the answer to long, passionless nights on the veldt. The war over, Russ returns to York and Rachel, to a growing family and increasing prosperity, little realizing how -- years later -- those moments of weakness in Africa will come back to haunt him, threatening to destroy everything he cherishes.  Then, overshadowing all, comes the most dreadful war the world has ever seen. And when it is over, the greatest battle has still to be won -- on the home front.

My Father My Son

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins

For My Brother’s Sins

Dickie

My Father, My Son

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

A Sense of Duty

Harper Collins Promotion

Sheelagh Kelly's famous first novel is also the first volume of her bestselling 'Feeney' saga. One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveyed his ruined potato crop - and for the first time knew despair. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he had no choice but to leave that wild and beautiful corner of Ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool, they are beset by new trials. After tramping the long, weary miles to York, they are forced to settle in the nightmarish slums of Walmgate, where disease and death are rife. Yet the very poverty and hopelessness of their surroundings bind the small community together in a stubborn determination to survive through tragedy and win for themselves a better life. Peopled with rich and colourful characters, here is a marvellously fresh, unpredictable saga full of passion, struggle and humour.

LONG WAY FROM HEAVEN

Contemporary

Arrow Books, Ltd.

ERIN'S CHILD

Arrow

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