Ebury Digital imprint: 1072 books
by Maggie Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Will she ever be her soldier’s sweetheart?
Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was sixteen. Only she was too shy to make her feelings known.
When Matthew joins the army Jenny is also determined to do her bit for the war effort and becomes...
by Maggie Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
All she wanted was a loving family . . .
When young Rose Sharpe is forced to leave school at the age of fourteen, her dreams of independence are left in tatters. With little help from her ailing mother, it’s up to Rose to protect her young sister from their domineering father and run the...
by Maggie Ford
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Torn between love and duty...
Letty Bancroft longs to be married but her father has other ideas - he wants his daughter to stay at home and help run his East End shop.
Heartbroken, Letty must remain unwed while her sweetheart goes off to fight in France. But her love affair has had consequences that will see her more determined than ever to be a soldier's bride...
by Maggie Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
A family torn apart. A daughter's courage...
When Elizabeth and her four sibling are orphaned, she and her brother are sent to a children's home; their younger sisters into foster care.
Life in the home is hard, but she is determined to look after her brother and make a better life for...
Home Sweet Home
(Sweet Sisters #3)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Will they meet again?
Frances Sweet can’t really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little sister.
As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the men they love – Frances is growing up fast...
Losses and Gains
Reflections on a Life with a Foreword by Paolo Coelho
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In her bestselling book Losses and Gains, Lya Luft draws on her own experiences of loss and gain in marriage and family to address the universal themes of childhood, love and maturity. She portrays love as the common thread through all phases of life. As children, the unconditional love we receive...
Post-Truth
The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke...
by Christopher Winn
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the...
by Christopher Winn
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and...
No Way Home
The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Sue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifying.
When her mother abandoned her to the protection of the home, Sue was soon to discover that behind the welcoming...
Don't Forget to Write
The true story of an evacuee and her family
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
'Dad walked determinedly down the path, joined by two neighbours with five children between them. As we reached the corner of Kent Avenue, I looked back for one last wave. But Mum had buried her head in her pinny and it was a year before I saw her again.'
In June 1940, 10-year-old Pam Hobbs...
A Boy's Own Dale
A 1950s childhood in the Yorkshire Dales
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s and 50s, Terry Wilson spent his school days hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to help with fractions and staring out the window dreaming up new schemes.
But it was on the Dales themselves that Terry came into his own. Whether he was...
A Hermit in the Himalayas
The Classic Work of Mystical Quest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
'The introductory account of Mr. Brunton's pony-back journey up the mountainside has real charm. One of his most interesting chapters gives a practical-minded consideration to the probable future of Tibet.' New York Times
Paul Brunton was one of a very small number of his generation to travel...
Growing Old Disgracefully
How to upset and perplex your children with increasingly erratic and unreasonable behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Does your mother think it's really charming to talk to every rose bush on the street? Has your father taken up obsessive fundraising for a donkey sanctuary on retirement? Does he collect elastic bands because 'you never know when you'll need one'? Do your parents make jokes about sheltered housing?...