Beryl Kingston

• Sep-1988
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First published in 1988, A Time to Love is a a story of two lives meeting.

Ellen Murphy was born to a world of rotting slums and starving children. Determined to escape from poverty and her drunken Irish father, she takes a job as a shop g...

• Feb-1989
• / General Fiction
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A saga in which a lady's maid has ideas far above her station, whose life is turned upside down when her husband is killed in revolutionary France. Alone with three young children, she faces a bleak future. Will she have the will to drive her on? Fro...

• Feb-1990
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Johnnie Easter takes his family by surprise when he falls in love with Harriet Sowervy. For all his business talent Johnnie is a shy lad, awkward at social events. But when he meets gentle Harriet, beaten into submission by her brutal parents, Johnni...

• Nov-1990
• / General Fiction
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As England basks in the golden years of Queen Victoria's reign, the Easter empire that began half a decade before with Nan Easter's newspaper walk, is growing from strength to strength. But then tragedy strikes, threatening to take all of Nan...

• Nov-1991
• / General Fiction
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Growing up in the Tower of London under the loving protection of her soldier father, Peggy is proud and content, even if she does have to put up with her mother's nerves and her whining younger sister, Baby. But when fate moves to rip her away fr...

• Jul-2001
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• Apr-2002
• / Romance
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Captain Jack, a man with a mysterious past as a successful highwayman, sets sail for the West Indies and Suki Brown, the mother of the thriving baby he has failed to take responsibility for, believes all is lost for ever. But as a slave master on the...

• Jul-2005
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2007
• / General Fiction
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It is 1852 and Alexander, a young biographer in search of the truth about William Blake, has parted from his new bride and travelled to the village of Felpham. For it was here that the scene of Blake's darkest hour â€" the mysterious incident tha...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Much is expected of Octavia Smith. Growing up a much-loved only child surrounded by family friends like George Bernard Shaw and William Morris, Octavia takes it as a matter of course that she will more than meet those expectations. Her childhood ambi...

• Jun-2009
• / Romance
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It is 1936 and the headmistress at Roehampton Secondary School, pioneer and suffragette Octavia Smith, is steering her pupils towards success as her exemplary girls' school moves from strength to strength. But as Europe rumbles towards war, Octavia's...

• Nov-2011
• / Historical Romance
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Jane was fifteen, pregnant, and abandoned by her sweetheart and seducer, George Hudson, when she fled her small Yorkshire village in disgrace.

She makes her way in the world and raises her daughter Milly with love. All the while swearing to on...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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Spirited and independent, lady's maid Nan Smithen has ambitions far beyond her station. Marriage to a wealthy businessman enchanted by her youth brings her position, children and a comfortable union. Until her doting husband is killed on an ill-fated...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Unhappy in her life and relationship, Francesca is inspired by her sighting of a mermaid swimming away to freedom, to leave her lover and uproot her life. She moves to Lewes to stay with Agnes Potts, her loving, eccentric friend. Francesca begins to ...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Rose’s life is about to be torn apart by war, but can she and her sisters piece together a new life in a rapidly changing world?London, 1914: Rose Boniface and her orphaned siblings live a small but happy life in South-East London. But when war bre...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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It is chastening to consider how easily fate can change our lives. For Suki Brown, one small decision has a lifetime of consequences. Working as a wetnurse for a posh family, Suki makes a heartbreaking decision when their baby dies to switch her own ...

• May-2019
• / General Fiction
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'What's the good of digging up the past? You never know what you might find.'London, 1970: Returning to England after four years in Geneva, Bobbie Chadwick has no idea who she is. A new decade is dawning and bringing with it independe...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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But of course, Marianne thought. It was the obvious answer. She would have to join the navy and go after him. It was the only thing to do.It's 1803 in Portsmouth, England and after a blissful wedding day, Marianne Morris should have everything sh...

• Jul-2019
• / Historical Romance
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London, 1890: Alberto Pelucci is young and wide-eyed when he steps off the boat from Italy and into the bustling heart of London. Dreaming of adventure and romance, he is determined to fall in love and find an English wife. And when Alberto meets...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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A quartet of paintings hang in the gallery. The artist now famous, his subject long forgotten: nobody of consequence…

Sent into service at the tender age of twelve, Rosie Goodison learns just how unfair the world really is. Some people work ...

• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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The Jackson family's peaceful south London life is shattered when World War Two breaks out. Sixteen-year-old Mary is immediately evacuated, and the rest of the family sets about combining daily life with wartime duties in the nation's capital. The ...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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It's A Fact of Feline Life...This is the story of a superior CAT told in his own, superior words. He is a cat of very high principles, but sometimes because of the very odd patterns of human behaviour, they often turn out to be the reverse of what he...

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• / General Fiction
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It is 1944, and Private Steve Wilkins is waiting to go to war. A new recruit to the mighty Desert Rats, he is billeted in Norfolk as the Allies meticulously plan the attack to open up the Second Front. Being nineteen and away from home for the first ...

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Gemma Goodeve, a young actress with a promising career, is involved in a terrible train crash in which many lives are lost and many people are injured. Gemma herself has to have her lower leg amputated before she can be freed from the wreckage. When ...

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Laura's cottage is her refuge from a crazy world, so when she discovers it is to be demolished to make way for a new road, she is enraged and joins the anti-road demonstrators. From then on Laura's campaign becomes a journey of discovery....

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When Alison marries Rigby Toan she cannot believe her luck. Rigg is the perfect husband loving, ambitious and attractive and everybody envies them their happiness. But when the recession takes hold Rigg's facade is stripped away and his flashy ca...

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A big, poignant and heartwarming story of war, flight, a divided family... and the power of love to change lives. In 1926 the Holborn twins, Ginny and her blind sister Emily, disappear from their comfortable home in Wolverhampton.

Why? No o...

• / Historical Romance
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As the Great War comes to a close, a new age dawns on London...Spoiled and stubborn, Anna Pelucci gets everything she wants. Doted on by her Italian father, she has more gowns than she can count and more suitors than she needs - but nothing is ever e...