Ed Bazel’s first album The London Sessions, recorded at the famous Abby Road Studio in London was received to high acclaim. With this subsequent collection of original works, other than a sensitive and emotive rendition of two Beatles songs, The Long and Winding Road...
A Christmas Gift for the East End Library Girls continues the World War II saga Library Girls Book 3, created by Patricia McBride, set during the Blitz in the East End of London, an area hit hardest in the Bombing. It’s October 1941 with London still reeling from the...
More than a ‘London during the Blitz’ story, acclaimed best-selling author Jo Baker, has beautifully written a well-researched novel, which successfully recreates this period and accurately conveys the feelings of the era in minute detail, thereby transporting the...
Released to wide acclaim in October, the beautiful work The London Sessions from award winning pianist Ed Bazel is a collection of pieces with a very wide appeal; from the young pianist to the older members of society who know perfection when they hear it. Recorded at...
The bombing of London during the height of the Second World War is source of endless material for historic fiction. The London Girls from Soraya M Lane is one such story based around the dangerous life of the dispatch riders, who as the war dragged endlessly onward...
Secrets within families have a strange way of eventually surfacing. Sometimes they are acknowledged and dealt with, sometimes they lie beneath the surface and fester a little. Jane Cockram has chosen an unusual storyline to deal with the issue of secrets. The mystery...
If you have a book you have a friend. For the 15 thousand plus Londoners in 1944, who were living in the Bethnal Green tube station through the mayhem and carnage of the terrible years of the blitz, this was certainly true; reading helped members of this community...
A cataclysmic upheaval on the streets of London sees Stick, one of the child tumblers who perform to earn a few coins, fall into a tunnel under the street. Sparrow and Spud his friends, along with Mr Punch and Judy are all gone and in his frantic search, Stick comes...
Dash and Lily have spent the year apart, heartbreakingly so, Dash at Cambridge, in England studying Literature, Classics and English with Lily still in New York taking a gap year and developing her dog walking business. Because he has sent her a message to say he...
For any little or not so little girl who is on a mission to uphold what their great grandmothers fought so strongly for as Suffragettes, women’s rights, the right to Vote, The Unstoppable Letty Pegg is a terrific read. It is also for those who are interested in...
If this story was a tapestry it would consist of the most magnificent colours and patterns woven in to it. What a thrill, to read a book that is so engrossing and so consistently true to the characters, and the history it tells about. The first chapter is set in...
This is an exceptional story that has been written exceptionally well. As the story progresses, each of the characters adds a chapter, giving an immediacy to the reading, and an instant understanding of how each person reacts to the circumstances their family is...
