Stevie Davies

• Sep-2024
• / Historical
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A riveting, epic historical novel set in 1940's Germany. For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the middle: veering wildly between fidelity to indoctrinated Nazi beliefs, and her father's humanist val...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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Mark lives next door to Freya. When her husband dies tragically, he determines to be her saviour, come what may. Whether that means walking the dog, minding the house or taking her on day trips. However, her neighbours on the other side keep getting ...

• Jun-2020
• / General Fiction
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"Davies is a meticulous, generous writer." -- The Guardian "Davies writes with pace and style." -- The Times "Stevie Davies's fusion of past and present is masterly." -- The Independent Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is stunning short story collect...

• Jun-2020
• / General Fiction
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In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a ...

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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“Davies is a meticulous, generous writer.” -- The Guardian
“Davies writes with pace and style.” -- The Times
“Stevie Davies’s fusion of past and present is masterly.” -- The Independent

Arrest Me, for I Have Ru...

• Jul-2016
• / General Fiction
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Sebastian has long been haunted by the disappearance of his father, Jack Messenger: celebrated travel writer, potential spy and murder victim, his absent presence and equivocal past continue to cast inescapable shadows over his son, who must also con...

• Aug-2013
• / Historical
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One year after Darwin's explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism, and the stirrings of feminist rebellion -- a world of charismatic religious movements, Spi...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end ...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dorain her eighties, she's a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War. With her fiery brand of radical anticapitalism, she conjures plans of political sabotage and computer hacking. S...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Unbridled Spirits is a vibrant and authoritative study of the women of the 17th century, women who found the means to speak out and demand change at a time when a woman could be publicly humiliated, bridled and tortured for scolding her husband....

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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Academics and Wuthering Heights fans are descending on the Bronte family homestead for an Emily Bronte conference. Among their ranks are a single, over-sixty, self-professed expert on the Brontes; an overworked wife, mother, and university lecturer; ...

• Jan-1997
• / Literary
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Jess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury with her husband Jacob for many years. He is solid, dependable, beautiful to her. She is contented to be his wife, to look after his elderly mother, aunt, and cousin, to be a pillar of their family and community...

• 1987
• / Literary
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• / General Fiction
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Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady a...