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“spike mays”

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  • The Only Way Was Essex

    Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

    by Spike Mays ...
    In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • After the War is Over

    A heart-warming story from the queen of saga writing

    by Maureen Lee ...
    A heart-warming tale set in Liverpool and London during the post-war years, from bestselling author Maureen Lee'Queen of saga writing' My WeeklyLiverpool, 1945. Three women, firm friends, return home from the war and try to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war, and have shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Dream Come True

    by Maureen Lee ...
    From Sunday Times bestselling author Maureen Lee - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.Until that fateful day in Brighton, Maggie had thought she would never be happy again...Maggie's once-happy marriage has turned sour, leaving her tied to a husband who no longer seems to love her. So she continues to work, keeps in touch with her friends and tries not to think about ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Nightingale Nurses

    (Nightingales 3)

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 3 - Nightingales
    'Pay attention please, nurses. The next six months will be the most important of your lives'It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital.Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career.Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Christmas With Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 3 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    A wonderfully moving Christmas midwife story from the author of Call Nurse Millie.Christmas is approaching - but for Nurse Millie and Nurse Annie babies are still being born, and in the East End of London, new mothers still need all the care and support they can give.Vividly summing up all the friendship of a close-knit community - both for the midwives and for the families - CHRISTMAS WITH NURSE ... Read more

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  • Fetch Nurse Connie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 4 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    London, 1945 and as the end of the war is declared and the troops start returning home, the nurses of the East End are joining in the celebrations.For Nurse Connie Byrne the end of the war signals the beginning of a new chapter and as the revelries go on around the city, Connie's mind is on another celebration that she'll be able to arrange - the wedding to her sweetheart, Charlie, set to take ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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  • Only a Mother Knows

    by Annie Groves ...
    A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London, from the best-selling author of London Belles and My Sweet Valentine.In Article Row, in London’s Holborn – four young women, Tilly, Sally, Dulcie and Agnes – have already been witnesses to the heartache and pain that Hitler’s bombs have inflicted on ordinary Londoners.Tilly is desperate to wed her beau, Drew. Terrified that something ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Sweethearts

    Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree’s. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram

    A Nurse's Story From the Streets

    by Dot May Dunn ...
    'A wonderful tale of 1950s Britain... a vivid account of a midwife's lot' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'Charming, sad, humorous and poignant' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review*****The compelling and heartwarming true story of a young nurse's life and work in 1950s England, from the Sunday Times bestseller.'Three small children pee... ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Ruby

    by Marie Maxwell ...
    As a former evacuee, feisty Ruby is forced to fend for herself when she returns to her family in London. Set in the aftermath of WW2 and based in Southend, this gripping saga is richly evocative of the period.Special low price for a limited period to discover this new talent.Home is where the heart is…After having lived peacefully in Cambridgeshire as an evacuee, 15-year-old Ruby Blakeley is ... Read more

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  • Far From Home

    by Ellie Dean ...
    Series Book 2 - The Cliffehaven Series
    It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that she hashad to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada.Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice and heads to the Beach View boarding ... Read more

    $11.59 USD