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Title: Without Sin

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Narrator: Susan Jameson

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Isaac Pendleton, master of the workhouse, rules the lives of all those within its walls, but when Sarah becomes his latest mistress, Meg is disgusted. Her loyal friend, Jake, born and bred in the workhouse, has a maturity and understanding beyond his years.

"The Master's good to his women," Jake tells her. "He'll look after your mam."

"But it's not how she brought me up to behave," Meg retorts, angry, hurt, and disillusioned.

Yet it is Meg's fiery independence that encourages Jake to leave the workhouse and seek employment on Middleditch Farm. His future is assured, but who will take care of Meg? The pretty, vivacious girl, once so innocent, becomes a calculating and manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get her own way, even if it means betraying those she has loved.

Without Sin is Margaret Dickinson's spirited historical saga of a passionate young woman who learns to fight for her own survival in a cruel world.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Great book.

Five Stars

Margaret Dickinson is a brilliant writer who never fails to write great books. This one is no exception!

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Title: Birmingham Rose

Author: Annie Murray

Narrator: Frances Barber

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Life, however, seldom follows the way of dreams. After a childhood marked by tragedy, she eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. From Italy, where she has travelled during the Second World War, she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage, her hopes and illusions shattered.

Finally, after further struggle, she leaves the beloved city of her childhood as it rises from the ashes of its bombed devastation. For the powerful spirit of Rose will not be defeated.

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Title: Family of Women

Author: Annie Murray

Narrator: Frances Barber

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Bessie, who is scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children.

Violet, one of Bessie's four children, who marries young to escape into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war.

Linda, who grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with her older sister, Joyce, and her beloved younger sister, Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her. Torn from her longed for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets that haunt her family.

Spanning more than half of the last century, Family of Women is the story of one family - and of the joys, struggles, and changes in women's lives.

Members Reviews:

light reading but a little like a soap opera

An o.k. Book,light reading but a little like a soap opera,enjoyed the characters but the story was a little dull and predictable

Brave women

Being a Brit it was wonderfully enjoyable book for me. Ilove the way Annie Murray writes, she brings everything to life.

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Title: Orphan of Angel Street

Author: Annie Murray

Narrator: Frances Barber

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For behind Mercy's pale and haunting face, there is a mind of steel, as her harsh foster mother, Mrs Gaskin, soon discovers. Beatings, threats, and poverty cannot halt Mercy's efforts to improve herself, or to create a new life for Susan, Mrs Gaskin's crippled daughter.

Even in the worst times, it is as if someone is watching over Mercy, willing her to succeed.

Through the dark shadow of world war, Mercy continues her fight for survival. She will first earn her freedom and security. Then, at long last, she can give her love.

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Title: Searching for Home

Author: Mary Stanley

Narrator: Mary Stanley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-07

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ireland 1944: a German plane crashes, shattering a young family. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie try to start afresh. The story moves from 1940s Ireland to post-war England, Malta, and London in the 1960s and '70s. A tale of survival, self-discovery, and falling in love.

©2005 Mary Stanley; (P)2007 Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Members Reviews:

Lovely!

This story swings from Ireland to London to Malta effortlessly, with the lives of those involved laid out before you. I was totally involved in how the actions of others during the last war affected some not even born at that time. Riveting story about relationships and where home is.

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Title: The Tulip Girl

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Narrator: Susan Jameson

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Work on the farm is hard, but believing herself truly loved for the first time in her young life by the farmer's son, Michael, even the animosity of the housekeeper Mrs Trowbridge cannot mar Maddie's newfound happiness.

The year 1947 brings a harsh winter, with sweeping devastation over the farm that threatens the Brackenbury's livelihood. All seems lost, until Maddie has an idea that might save them all from poverty.

But then she discovers she is pregnant.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

very good

Five Stars

Love the book

Five Stars

Good reading. Suitable for teenagers

The tulip girl

I found this an excellent look at a farm family growing tulips in the south of England.

During World War 2 the tulip growers were ordered not to grow food crops instead. The reason was that tulip bulbs were light and valuable, and Britain could send them to Canada in trade for food and other goods - no point sending out empty ships.

The characters are varied and sympathetic, and include a young girl telling this tale from her viewpoint and living through the war. I can recommend this read.

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Title: The River Folk

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Narrator: Susan Jameson

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Growing into an attractive young woman, Mary Ann yearns to be loved, and when her affection for Bessie's son, Dan, is finally returned she becomes a skipper's wife. But the arduous life aboard ship is clearly not for her, and only the arrival of a daughter, Lizzie, seems to hold the marriage together. Yet, tragically, the family is torn apart when Mary Ann is seduced by the promise of a happier life.

Although bewildered by her mother's disappearance, it is now up to Lizzie to help her father. For she, unlike Mary Ann, has inherited Dan's love of the river. But then, disturbingly, her life starts to follow the same pattern as her mother's.

The strength and resilience of her characters shine through in Margaret Dickinson's new Lincolnshire saga, a richly absorbing tale of the lives and loves of the river folk.

Members Reviews:

The River Folk

Another brilliant read. I chose this rating because it was a really enthralling story and leaves you wanting more:

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good relaxing read, either a bedtime read or lounging by a pool or in fact anywhere.

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Title: Birmingham Blitz

Author: Annie Murray

Narrator: Frances Barber

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

But it's August 1939. Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up, and the strangely liberating effect it has on her mother.

Narrated in the cheeky, courageous voice of Genie, the disasters that follow display her powerful capacity for survival. Under skies darkened by blackout, she tries to hold her family together, keep up her spirits with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and share her fears and hopes with Teresa. And amid it all, she discovers love.

Family life seems set to be destroyed as violently as the city streets around them. But from the rubble come extraordinary surprises, glimpses of hope, and, above all, a miraculous resilience.

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Title: Sow the Seed

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Narrator: Susan Jameson

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It isn't until she is 18, and finally told the bitter truth about her family's past, that Kate is forced to see why she and Danny can never marry. Torn apart by these revelations, Kate finds an unexpected release with the outbreak of war, when she leaves Fleethaven Point to become a driver in the WAAF.

In the chaos and destruction of the war years, Kate will witness many things. For as well as all the pain, suffering, and loss, she will experience her first taste of love that finally allows her to leave the past behind.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

The book was great and it completed my trilogy! Thank you!

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Title: Miss Purdy's Class

Author: Annie Murray

Narrator: Frances Barber

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Her early weeks in Birmingham come as an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of 52 children, some of whose homes are among Birmingham's poorest. One of the teachers, the elderly Miss Drysdale, becomes an inspiration, and Gwen begins to understand the appalling hardships endured by the children as she is drawn into their lives.

Little Lucy Fernandez is a "cripple" and an epileptic. Through her, Gwen meets Daniel Fernandez, the elder brother in a fatherless household. The family has roots in Wales' small Spanish community, and Daniel is a young man as passionate and fierce in his emotions as in his social conscience.

Gwen falls in love, and is soon embroiled in his battle to win rights for the working classes. As the Brigades are mobilized to fight the Spanish Civil War, Gwen has to face the fact that Daniel has secrets in his past that she would rather not face up to.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

This story dragged on a bit but I still enjoyed it.

Heart felt read

A very touching story,when we all take for granted that life is so good for us as individuals.,this is a simple story but a very sad one at times.