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It is on historical record that, on the evening of October 13th 1939, six weeks after war had been declared on Hitler's Germany, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, fierce and implacable opponents for years over the appeasement issue, met together with their two wives, Clementine and Anne, for a private dinner at Admiralty House, and event which caused ripples throughout Westminster. Chamberlain was still Prime Minister, but had seen all his efforts to negotiate peace with Hitler shattered. Churchill had been recalled to the cabinet after ten years 'in the wilderness', his dire warnings of the Nazi threat vindicated.Lucy Armitage is an innocent baker's daughter from England's majestic Lake District. A shy, insecure teenager, she seems to be heading for an unremarkable future in an unremarkable family. However the onset of World War II changes everything. A year before the outbreak of hostilities she is persuaded by her ambitious brother, Tom, and his best friend, Henry (with whom she experiences her first innocent sexual awakening) to go to London to attend secretarial college. Lucy's initial experience of the vast capital is an education. Then, with training almost completed, and with war on Germany declared, she is by strange chance conscripted in emergency into the secretarial team at the Admiralty. She suddenly finds herself having to take dictation from Winston Churchill himself, who has been brought back into the government as First Lord of the Admiralty after ten years 'in the wilderness'.

Jessica thought she knew who she was until she took her dying aunt's advice and travelled to India to ¿nd her past. The story develops into one of mystery and intrigue as it uncovers secrets about her life that she never knew, and leadsher into forbidden love. Swinging from the last decadent days of the British Raj in Shimla to nineteen ninety's rural England, chapter after chapter reveals perplexing clues of betrayal, passion and tragedy.

From Westminster to the Senedd, liars, posers and fools are harpooned as we revisit the surreal bin fire of current affairs 2023-style. Taking in - but never taken in by - a cast that includes Boris Johnson, Carol Vorderman, Mark Drakeford, Shakin' Stevens, Wayne Pivac, and Charles Windsor; Wildsmith's unflinching eye dissects the tragedies and comedies of the year. Whether writing from the 'tomato crisis' in Morocco, the Cave of the Apocalypse in Greece, or community super-club Tylorstown RFC - his missives will delight readers who rage in despair against the zeitgeist.

This is a story about a life singing in Welsh choirs, including the internationally acclaimed Morriston Orpheus Choir. Following a journey through time and across the world from the South Wales valleys to the Sydney Opera House, the story tells of great music-making and behind the scenes fun and games. The author describes the travel experiences of numerous world-wide tours and the incidents that occurred, many of them hilarious. There are tales about encounters with celebrities that he met and shared the stage with. The book describes the poignant experience of singing in Carnegie Hall in New York in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack, whilst on a happier note, The Queen's Golden Jubilee performance outside Buckingham Palace offers a taste of high pageantry. The final chapters cover the author's most recent experiences singing in a high-quality 'a cappella' choir, with performances at some notable venues including La Madeleine in Paris. From singing at a Major League baseball game in Cleveland, Ohio to performing at the famous rugby stadiums of New Zealand, the story is rich with variety and colour. It will delight all lovers of choirs and their music and appeal to, and amuse, all world travellers.

Marvel's world-famous Cinematic Universe is set in an alternate reality called Earth 616. The Secret Origin of Earth 616, reveals how it came to be.David always wanted to be a writer for Marvel Comics when he was a child. Find out how he fulfilled that dream and how his stories of Captain Britain spawned the multiverse which became the setting of the most successful film franchise of all time.Discover why superheroes are so popular, the importance of the secret identity and the world of British Comics in the 1980s and 1990s, the power of alternative realities and alternative versions of yourself, and how David used this concept to overcome his disability.

Stephen James finds communicating with people difficult. When he is accused of a serious crime, he ends up in a police cell in the small valleys' town of Ynys. He insists that not only is he innocent but that it is he who is the victim, leading to confusion by those in authority.His efforts to tell his story fall on deaf ears, those who should be helping caught up in their own struggles. He manages to break free of the religious stranglehold his mother has subjected him to and starts to take an interest in birds. He is captivated by his father's stories about messenger pigeons during the First World War.Stephen accidentally gets caught up in the affairs of the town's high-class 'Gentlemen's Club' and the local underworld, leading him to believe that he has solved a violent crime. The fact that he is obsessed with police programmes and wrestling doesn't help his cause.He is befriended by Frank Williams, a pigeon fancier, who takes him under his wing and he finds his own unique way of telling his side of the story.

Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who made up this distinct part of Wales. The author, Rob Sheffield, shares first-person accounts of how the area formed then lost the strong bonds that held the neighbourhood together. And he describes growing up here, leaving for university, and the effect of this on identity and family.From this story of Greenhill arise implications for community development everywhere, including the importance of collaboration between local residents and government.

This book tells the story of Stephen Piper, born at the beginning of the twentieth century in Swansea, South Wales. It details his life in his own words growing up in a poor family, his life in the Merchant Navy during and after the First World War, life during the Depression in Swansea. It relates what it was like in the Home Guard during the Swansea Blitz and of his time in the Pioneer Corps where he became an officer. Lastly, it tells of his life after the Second World War in Germany and coming back to Wales when he was nearly sixty.

Mr. Spring is on his own. Not only is he single but he refuses to be governed by the normal rules of society, rubbing some folk up the wrong way. Paddy's ambition to be the area's first serial killer is thwarted because he's just too kind. He buys Mr. Spring a tricycle, cementing their friendship, and when Paddy loses his job they set up in business together, despite the old man's arthritis. An accidental death in the small town remains unexplained but the Swansea police leave well alone, having had their fingers burnt by the local arsonist. Nobody takes responsibility for the three-legged dog. Mysterious graffiti appears on walls and pavements, clearly crafted by someone with literary pretensions but a sick mind. As the gossip increases, Mr Spring is seen as a loose cannon (not the loose vicar - he was in the last story) and the respectable types dub him 'the town nuisance' and plot against him. Paddy cheerfully supports him but Lucy, his girlfriend, loses patience with them both after they throw tins of beans at the TV set. It is more by luck than judgment that summer visitors from Milwaukee solve the puzzle. Or so they think.

Sir Roger Jones OBE is a pharmacist, businessman and public servant of great note. In addition to his ground-breaking work in pharmaceutical innovation, he has been highly successful in his business dealings across three continents. He was a governor of the BBC, chairman of the Welsh Development Agency and chairman of the Training and Enterprise Council. He was also chair of the governing body of Swansea University and of a number of other public bodies. In this eminently readable account of his life, Roger shows how he was motivated, despite a fairly modest background in Bala in North Wales, to achieve great heights in all his chosen fields. At the same time he gives us an engaging picture of a proud Welshman and family man with a passion for fishing and field sports.

Ibrahim is a product of his gritty Brussels neighbourhood, Molenbeek. He is thrown in jail for armed robbery and joins Islamic State. When Ibrahim and his brothers carry out the 2015 Paris attacks, the Security Service's net starts closing in, and they are chased across Brussels towards martyrdom at the airport. As Ibrahim plots the airport bombing, Liverpudlian IT mouse, Tom is yet to know that his mundane life is about to be turned upside down by Islamic State. It's not just Tom; IS are about to touch the lives of his five colourful friends too - a bride-to-be dive instructor, a philandering Swiss restaurateur, a kinky DJ, a soon-to-retire Scouse soldier, and a ruthless Indian businesswoman.

Through her stories, reminiscences and recollections of her life, Simone Mansell Broome tells us about the people she encounters and the trials and tribulations of life overcome.The child is mother to the woman and the foibles, prejudices and frailties of one generation will surface, inevitably, in the next. Simone Mansell Broome was born in Tenby, grandchild to tenant farmers in Begelly, Pembrokeshire, first child of a man with a troubled relationship to his homeland and a hard-working, dynamic, intensely emotional Englishwoman. The memoir dips in and out of the Tenby of Simone's infancy and early childhood, a later childhood over the border, a turbulent adolescence and onwards into early motherhood.This is not a purely chronological account. It does not wear its heart on its sleeve or dwell self-indulgently on the bad times. This is a series of surprising, mundane, moving and sympathetic vignettes of family life, of an education in school and in love, which seesaws like the playground and fairground rides she recalls from fun to fear, from sunshine to storms. The chapters are linked by the letter 'f'. It's a device to corral and make sense of a large database of life experience; it allows for switches in mood and style, for the reader to sample stories, memories, observations. Even at her most light-hearted moments, she is perceptive, empathetic. Even when quite dark episodes are alluded to, humour isn't very far away. A couple of the chapters and the revelations therein could startle or trouble the easily startled or easily troubled. All will strike a chord, whatever reminiscence the author is sharing.

Thirteen stalwart and like-minded women meet weekly, as a Sewing Circle, to publicly portray their dedication to knitting, needlework and all things stitched. But... what are their real activities? Bessie the Law learns that there has been a serious outbreak of litter all over Pembroke town. She calls upon the Sewing Circle members to quickly expose the young culprits. How deep will they have to dig to find the real criminal who aims to make money out of the town's discarded rubbish? A member of a respected family in the town is accused of poisoning her sister. Bron the Books steps out of the library and engages the Sewing Circle to prove her friend's innocence. Will they need to take a closer look at the treasured family pets to uncover the real poisoner? Megan the Signals alerts the Sewing Circle to an auction fraud involving her grandmother's antique chairs. Will a pair of fake heirlooms and a crockery crashing intervention be enough to spring their trap on the unscrupulous dealer? How can the Station Road Sewing Circle possibly solve these and other mysteries without revealing their identity?

'Reading, writing and walking: such an agreeable way to pass the days...' This is Rhian's discovery after she takes early retirement and travels to spend time on solitary retreat in a beautiful corner of Wales. From there her life unfolds in ways she could not possibly have foreseen. She revisits fragments of her childhood, reconciles fragile family relationships, survives a bad bout of flu and makes new friendships, especially with her rather eccentric neighbour. Her story and his become entwined and lead to life-changing events for both of them in her through-the-looking-glass existence. 'Step through the canvas, end the mirror-phase...' Set against the magical backdrop of Pembrokeshire's Coast Path and surrounding area, the heart of this novel is Rhian's exploration of what 'home' means, and how that can change. 'Day by day this place, with its serenity and seclusion, continued to nurture me, away from the intruding world. The worst of the winter was now over, and March beckoned with its daffodils, primroses and quietly fattening buds...' Rhian discovers that the poetry she has longed to write takes inspiration from her surroundings and echoes her inner journey. How remote it seems,That time I had the fever,A patchwork of dreamsStitched by a phantom weaverFor a dream-believer.

There's a killer on the Loose on the streets of Swansea. And he is leaving clues. Detective Inspector Gus Reid and his tema have a gruesome murder on their hands but no suspects and no obvious motive. All they have to go on is a series of literary quotations that appear like graffiti on walls throughout the city. Can Gus's daughter, an expert in Renaisance literature, help solve the crime? Or will she become the next victim?The Killer believes he is much cleverer than the 'police detectives'. But is he too clever for his own good?

ON A WING AND A PRAYER by Helen Carey is a nostalgic and heart-warming novel of south London during the Second World War. This is the third book in the Lavender Road series.

The second of the Lavender Road wartime novels by Helen Carey. Following on from LAVENDER ROAD, SOME SUNNY DAY vividly depicts the courage, the resilience, and the defiant laughter of war-torn London,

World War II has begun. As war rages, and the evacuation of Dunkirk approaches, the women of south London have their own battles to fight. Helen Carey's LONDON ROAD is a compelling novel perfect for fans of Lilian Harry, Kate Thompson and Annie Murray.

It's December 1942, and German air raids have devastated south London. While their husbands and loved-ones face up to Hitler's forces in Europe and North Africa, the women of Lavender Road have their own problems to confront. Lavender Road is a perfectly ordinary London street. But in wartime ordinary people sometimes find themselves doing extraordinary things, and nurse Molly Coogan and actress Jen Carter are about to take on the biggest challenge of their lives. LONDON CALLING was shortlisted for the 2017 RoNA Award for Best Historical Romance. 'In this dramatic and poignant novel, hugely popular British novelist Helen Carey depicts the courage and resilience of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary war.' London Evening Standard. 'What a fantastic book. Loved it from the first page.' Amazon review 'This book is an incredible tale of bravery, love and trust.'

It's August 1944. Allied forces are finally making headway in Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a chilling reminder that the war is not yet won. Victory may be just round the corner, but the fighting is far from over for the women of Lavender Road.Helen de Burrel knows from bitter experience how dangerous things are in war-torn France, but it's a long time since she heard from André Cabillard, her French fiancé, and nothing is going to stop her going back to track him down. Meanwhile, her friend Molly Coogan has returned to London after a spell of nursing in North Africa, and now it is suddenly important to her to discover the truth about the mother who gave her up for adoption when she was four years old.Sweeping from London to France and on into Germany as Hitler's army begins to retreat, Victory Girls is full of emotion, excitement and suspense, which will hold readers on the edge of their seats