Margaret Dickinson

Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance....

Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales....

Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope....

A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage....

It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War....

For Eveleen Hardcastle life gets no better than growing up on Pear Tree Farm in the Lincolnshire countryside....

A richly absorbing tale of the lives and loves of the river folk....

Another outstanding regional historical saga from the Queen of Lincolnshire-based fiction....

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester....

There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive....

From Sunday Times bestseller Margaret Dickinson comes a captivating story of family, hardship and love set in early 1900s Derbyshire....

When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life....

The Empire has vanquished its enemies at last, but at a terrible price. With her chief rival cast into the abyss, Empress Seda must face the truth of what she’s unleashed in her hunger for power....

An enthralling story of love, rivalry and courage....

Is it possible for a 10-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thinks so....

Charlotte is an only child, reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he desires....

Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain....

Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father's dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home on Middleditch Farm....

In a drunken haze and scarcely realising what he is doing, Eddie takes desperate, bedraggled Anna home, even though his wife is a tyrant, who will believe the worst....

As the storm clouds of war gather over Britain, two brave young women will discover the value of true friendship as they deal with troubles of their own while the lives of those they love are put at risk....