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  • Seven Dials (Book 12 of The Performers)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 12 - The Performers
    It is 1946 and London is still reeling from the destruction and suffering of the Second World War. The formidable Letty Lackland helps to raise funds for Queen Eleanor's Hospital, destroyed in the Blitz. Dr Charlie Lucas helps Brin Lackland come to terms with a devastating wartime facial injury. Brin's sister, Kate is forging her way to success on stage and screen. Here, at the end of the vast and ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • The Strand (Book 8 of The Performers)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 8 - The Performers
    They have all come a long way since their childhood days as part of a Jewish family in the East End of London. Orphaned during the war years, each has sought to escape her humble background in a ruthless search for a share of worldly success. But the much envied glamour of their lives has been achieved at a price. ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Shaftesbury Avenue (Book 10 of The Performers)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 10 - The Performers
    The powerful, personal stories of Shaftesbury Avenue are set against the dramatically changing social and political background of post-Great War Britain. The war has ended but Theo Caspar, devastated by his experiences in the trenches, cannot join the celebrations. Letty Lackland wants Theo to star in her latest film. Now a successful film producer, Letty is the linchpin of the large, extended ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Burning Summer

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Ruthie Lee is seven and England is at war. Brought back from the countryside to live with her mother and baby brother in London, she spends summer in the hot dusty streets and the warm companionship of the East End Jewish community. As if air raids were not enough, there is a shadow across all their lives, for her father has deserted from the army, there is no money coming in and soldiers are ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • Gower Street (Book 1 of The Performers)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 1 - The Performers
    The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lackland and Lilith Lucas and their families become inextricably entwined as they are destined for the vastly different worlds of medicine and the theatre. ... Read more

    $1.77 CAD

  • Sisters

    by Claire Rayner ...
    In a hushed courtroom, the scene is set for one of the most celebrated trials of recent years. A tral caused by a bitter family wrangle. A trial that, as it unfolds, will reveal the dramatic story of the turbulent lives and careers of its three central characters, Hester, Hildegarde and Bonnie Morris. ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • First Blood

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 1 - George Barnabas Mystery
    Dr Barnabas is the new pathologist at a big inner city hospital. She is also a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either post. Her first post-mortem is on a well-known author, with all the attendant media circus. But trouble starts when she cannot find a cause of death. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Jubilee (Book 1 of The Poppy Chronicles)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 1 - The Poppy Chronicles
    The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. Their daughter Poppy's first memory is of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. She has all the strong will and feistiness of her parents, combined with an insatiable appetite for the experiences of life. Jubilee is the powerful tale of Poppy's life during a period of rapid ... Read more

    $1.77 CAD

  • London Lodgings

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 1 - Quentin Quartet
    Without her husband Frank - the victim of a fatal accident, Tilly Quentin's decision to turn 17 Brompton Grove into lodgings is a brave one, for it is against the rigid Victorian social code for a lady to go into trade. ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • The Running Years

    by Claire Rayner ...
    She was born in 1893, in the slums of London. The daughter of immigrants, the descendant of exiles, she was part of a people doomed to wander, forever strangers in the lands they had chosen as home. But Hannah Lazar was different. She was born and bred a Londoner, and London was where she belonged. As strong-willed as she was beautiful, Hannah would uproot herself from the gloomy poverty of her ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Sixties (Book 6 of The Poppy Chronicles)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 6 - The Poppy Chronicles
    It is the Sixties. Poppy is devastated at the loss of her mother. But with typical resolve she faces the future with courage and determination. Poppy has steered herself and her family to great achievements. Poppy's business is flourishing. Her daughter's Carnaby Street boutique is booming, her son is making his way in the music business and Chloe finds success in America. Poppy's story ends on a ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Piccadilly (Book 11 of The Performers)

    by Claire Rayner ...
    Series Book 11 - The Performers
    The troubled '30s leading to the outbreak of the 2nd World War form the background for a further episode of The Performers' family saga. Harry Lackland meets Leah Landis, but because of their lack of children and the fact that she is his senior, the marriage begins to go awry. Being Jewish, Leah fears for the safety of members of her family in Germany, and with Peter Lackland, goes there - despite ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD