Over Bethnal Green

Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright criminal. Then the grim outside world intrudes when war begins and Tom is called up almost at once, leaving Jessie to cope alone when the air raids start over the East End. And when Tom does a runner and goes AWOL, things get rapidly worse. Meanwhile Jessie's clever twin Hannah has been recruited to help at Bletchley Park, cracking the Germans' communications code.

Literature & Fiction

Worboyes, Sally

Genre Fiction

Coronet

In 1952 Eastenders are leaving their war-damaged homes and being settled into new places by the river - a new estate, with the luxury of electricity, hot water, gas cookers and proper bathrooms. Into the estate moves Edie Brown, a young war widow with a thirteen-year-old daughter, who works as a machinist in a clothing factory to eke out her small war pension.During one lunch break at the factory Edie discovers from a friend that her husband's cousin is coming from Turkey to stay with her until he finds a room to rent. He is coming from a small village in Kara - the very mention of which makes Edie's blood run cold. Kara was where her husband's boat crashed against the mountainous shoreline while searching for a missing British plane. All those aboard were listed as missing and presumed dead, drowned at sea.But the Turkish cousin will have a different story to tell...

Where Sparrows Nest

Romance

Paranormal

Coronet Books

Time Will Tell

Jamaica Street

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Room for a Lodger

Hodder&Stoughton

Errol Turner, a handsome and determined young man from Jamaica, has found the woman of his dreams in the East End of London. Errol's only assets on arrival at Southampton in the summer of 1955 were his father's old sewing machine, a few pounds in his pocket, and a touching faith in the greatness of Britain. Four years later, in love with the charismatic Rita, he is making his mark as a tailor. But in the aftermath of the race riots, racial hatred still simmers throughout London, endangering all their hopes.

Contemporary

Hodder Paperback

It is 1959 and the Armstrong family - Jack, Laura and their daughter, Kay - are setting off on their annual hop-picking holiday. Far from the bustle of the Stepney, the Kent hop fields offer hard work but fresh clean air and lively social gatherings around the campfires.Laura hopes to continue her seasonal love affair with the farm owner, Richard Wright, despite the presence of his wife and her husband; Kay, on the brink of womanhood, craves adventure and is thrown into turmoil by the handsome gypsy lad, Zacchi; and news is spreading of plans to mechanise the hop-picking, robbing the East Enders of their country idyll. As tensions grow between the cockneys and the local gypsies, it becomes clear that this summer will change lives for ever...

Wild Hops

Suddenly and tragically orphaned, Mary Dean must find an extra source of income if she and her young brother are to escape the workhouse.  The matchbox factory where she works pays poorly and she is desperate.  Tempted by the lure of the House of Assignation, Mary accepts an invitation to become a courtesan in the exclusive establishment.  Her very first client, Sir Walter, is entranced by her beauty and innocence; he insists that she be his alone. But another threat lurks.  Mary's neighbour, a midwife, is righteous in her hatred of prostitution, and holds the key to a menacing secret - the identity of the terrifying Whitechapel murderer, Jack the Ripper.  Mary has no idea of the peril she has placed herself in or the intentions of those around her.  Who can she trust - if anyone?

Whitechapel Mary

Girl from Brick Lane

<p>"Not all is as it seems at Number 10 Beaumont Square. The apparently perfect marriage of Tobias and Grace Wellington is fractured when a dark secret emerges. But to the public eye, nothing changes." "However twenty years later Tobias' past catches up with him. Flora Brown and her daughter Beanie are employed below stairs as cook and scullery maid. Beanie is the illegitimate daughter Flora conceived with Tobias all those years ago. Tobias fears that she will talk if he sacks her, so he has no choice but to let them stay: him above stairs and them below." "The Wellington's offspring, Sarah and Herbert, have no idea tht the scullery maid is their half-sister. Sarah and Beanie have become great friends; Herbert, however, is a class snob and dislikes Beanie intensely. In the meantime Grace finds that she likes and trusts her cook: they are both suffragettes. During a few sherries one night the truth about Beanie comes out. After tears and apologies, the two women become even closer and vow never to tell the children that they share the same father." "However, secrets are hard to keep and inevitably the wrong person gets hold of the right information."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

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Over Bethnal Green

Where Sparrows Nest

Time Will Tell

Jamaica Street

Room for a Lodger

Jamaica Street

Room for a Lodger

Wild Hops

Whitechapel Mary

Girl from Brick Lane