High Street

In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. And she is going to take her father and his second family with her, away from poverty, away from the Rows. But Annie has not left trouble behind. Someone is trying to undermine her business. Her family have their own ideas about what they want to do with their lives. And several men are persistently trying to win favour with the beautiful young widow - including Frederick Hallam, the mill owner, and Daniel O'Connor, her childhood friend.  As Annie gets better acquainted with both, she becomes increasingly confused about her feelings. Can she really be in love? And can she risk trusting any man again?

Romance

Anna Jacobs

Historical

Coronet

<p>Preparations are under way for Annie Gibson's wedding to the wealthy Frederick Hallam, but not everyone is pleased about it. Then the real troubles begin to pile up. Annie's son is devastated to find out who his real father is, and someone has uncovered the secret Annie fought hard to keep hidden.</p>

Ridge Hill

Hallam Square

A Lancashire saga...  In 1858 Annie Hallam has at last found happiness, with her three healthy children and husband Frederick. Annie knows she deserves to sit back and enjoy her life, but the first faint clouds of worry are on the horizon. Frederick has been looking pale and ill recently, her brother Tom hasn't moved on after the death of his wife and William, her son, isn't happy at university. In spite of Frederick's gentle urging not to take the entire burden of the Gibson family on her shoulders, Annie can't help feeling concerned - and something much more dangerous is looming...

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton

In this saga set in 19th-century Lancashire and featuring the Gibson family, Annie is now happily married to mill-owner Frederick Hallam, but a threat from the past emerges to cause her anxiety.

Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent - she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has planned for her. Times are changing, railways are being built across the land bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. And Jared Wilde is determined to make Jessie his wife. The primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works are nothing like the safe world Jessie once knew. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds happiness with Jared. Until another navvy becomes determined to destroy their future together...

Jessie

Genre Fiction

Our Lizzie (Kershaw Sisters)

Our Lizzie

<p>Seventeen-year-old Liza is happy working as a lady's maid - until her employers decide to emigrate and her father makes up his mind that she is to wed an older widower whom she detests. Determined to avoid a loveless marriage, Liza plans to run away, and when the widower rapes her in order to force her to marry him, she flees back to the family for whom she worked, and they all set out on the long voyage to Australia. On board ship Liza realises she has fallen pregnant, and that even if she can survive the journey, the demanding life of a settler in 1850s Western Australia will be made even harder by an illegitimate child. But Liza is to find that in addition to deprivation of the worst sort, Australia will offer her opportunities she could never have dreamt of back home in Lancashire.</p>

Lancashire Lass

Lancashire Legacy

Book Club Associates

407p cloth with white dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, jacket slightly scratched and creased near the extremeties, near fine condition

Our Polly

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Our Eva

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High Street

Ridge Hill

Hallam Square

Hallam Square

Jessie

Our Lizzie

Lancashire Lass

Lancashire Legacy

Our Polly

Our Eva