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When The Dawn Breaks
Emma Fraser - Hardback - Sphere
Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice. Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. And then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, who Isabel just can't stay away from. One encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, and all their lives are irrevocably changed.
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Beacon On The Shore
Mary Withall - Paperback - Luath
A small, sheltered quarrying community in Eisdalsa, one of the Western Isles, has three new inhabitants to get used to. Their relationships with each other are sensitively depicted against the backdrop of the island's triumphs and tragedies.
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Birds In The Spring
Evelyn Hood - Paperback - Sphere
In Paisley in the 1920s, Fiona MacDowall has made it clear she intends to inherit her father's furniture emporium. However, her half-brother, Alex, although born out of wedlock, has other ideas. But it's Alex's wife, Rose, who objects most. She is sure that Fiona will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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The Fisher Lass
Margaret Dickinson - Paperback - Pan Books
Jeannie Buchanan has spent all her life in the shadow of the dark North Sea. Working with freezing fingers to gut the precious herring, she follows the fleet south, travelling far away from her Scottish home. When her beloved father's trawler goes missing, she must face up to life on her own amidst the great social upheaval of the inter-war years, but her fiery temper and fierce independence attract powerful enemies.
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The Road Beneath Me
Jessica Blair - Paperback - Piatkus
When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she marry a man she despises, she refuses and is cast out of her comfortable home in Whitby. Fortunately, a kindly local widow is looking for a lady companion and, for the moment, Kate's future is assured.
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Echoes From A Distant Shore
Mary Withall - Paperback - Luath
Set in the 1840s, 'Echoes From a Distant Shore' follows minister James Bantrie, who makes a stand against the unfair practices of the Church of Scotland, forcing his family to abandon all they know. In moving to the Inner Hebrides, James and his family begin to accept the lessons that can be learnt from the islands.
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Eighteen Couper Street
Millie Gray - Paperback - Black & White
Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community, her door at 18 Couper Street is always open, for advice, treatment for all sorts of ailments or for a cup of tea and a chat. But despite caring for those around her, she is soon embroiled in family problems.
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The Breadmakers Saga
Margaret Thomson Davis - Paperback - Black & White
'The Breadmakers Saga' follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. This volume contains the novels 'The Breadmakers', 'A Baby Might Be Crying' and 'A Sort of Peace'.
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Wax Fruit
Guy McCrone - Paperback - Black & White
'The Wax Fruit Trilogy' brings together Guy McCrone's three classic novels which chronicle the life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to prosperity in Victorian Glasgow.
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The Road Beneath Me
Jessica Blair - Hardback - Piatkus
When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she marry a man she despises, she refuses and is cast out of her comfortable home in Whitby. Fortunately, a kindly local widow is looking for a lady companion and, for the moment, Kate's future is assured.