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Jessica Stirling
Author
Series
Isle of Mull trilogy volume 2
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Publication Date
1999
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Language
English
Description
In 1891, sisters Innis and Biddy struggle with second chances as Innis is tempted away from her unhappy marriage and Biddy is drawn out of her solitary widowhood.
Author
Series
Isle of Mull trilogy volume 3
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Publication Date
2000
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English
Description
Since the dawn of time, the Isle of Mull, off the Scottish coast, has had to fend off ferocious winds and a ravenous ocean intent on swallowing the island whole. Roughened by ceaseless storms and chill, Mull remained a quiet community, set in its ways, with almost no fodder for town gossip, as the nineteenth century drew to a close. Until, that is, new blood moved in, setting the local Campbell sisters, Innis and Biddy, against each other in all-out...
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Publication Date
2002
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English
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There are four Conway women: indomitable Lizzie, who endures despite everything that life in Glasgow can throw at her, and Lizzie's three daughters, each one combining Lizzie's iron will with her own ambitions and desires.
Now, as the 1930s draw to a close and war threatens, each sister struggles with her life and loves. Polly lives in luxury as the wife of the overprotective Dominic Manone, while Babs has her hands full with her demanding brood...
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Publication Date
2001
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English
Description
In Jessica Stirling's Prized Possessions, Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the slums despite the crippling debt left behind by a long-vanished husband. To give her three daughters a better life, Lizzie sacrifices her own chance of happiness to break the endless round of poverty that engulfs them. But as the girls grow up, Lizzie is unable to protect them from the biggest threat of all-falling in love with men like their father.
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Publisher
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Publication Date
2002
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Language
English
Description
Jessica Stirling's Glasgow comes to scintillating life in The Piper's Tune, a story of love and fortune set in Edwardian Scotland.
Lindsay Franklin's life is an adventure she has just begun to enjoy. At eighteen, Arthur Franklin's cosseted daughter has left her Glasgow school and finds her role as a marriageable young lady with a widowed father more than agreeable. And the source of her family's wealth, the Franklins' shipbuilding yard on Clydeside,...
6) Wives at war
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Publication Date
2003
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Language
English
Description
As Glasgow waits for enemy bombers to reach Clydeside and the German invasion to begin, Lizzie Conway's daughters throw themselves wholeheartedly into the war effort and eagerly accept their roles as working wives in Jessica Stirling's enthralling new novel set in the darkest days of the Second World War.
With her husband in the army, mother-of-four Babs sends three of her darlings to the country and goes back to work long hours in an office. Her...
Author
Series
Jim Kinsella novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Publication Date
2014
Edition
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Language
English
Description
Who murdered Molly? Was it Leopold Bloom, in the kitchen, with a teapot . . .?
This finely crafted historical mystery, using several recognizable characters and the famous setting from James Joyce's Ulysses, marks an intriguing departure for saga writer Jessica Stirling.
Detective Inspector Jim Kinsella of the Dublin police force is called to the scene when the body of Molly Bloom has been found in her own kitchen where she
Author
Series
Jim Kinsella novels volume 1
Publisher
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Publication Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The first in a new series featuring Detective Jim Kinsella. Who murdered Molly? Was it Leopold Bloom, in the kitchen, with a teapot . . .? This finely crafted historical mystery, using several recognizable characters and the famous setting from James Joyce's Ulysses, marks an intriguing departure for saga writer Jessica Stirling. Detective Inspector Jim Kinsella of the Dublin police force is called to the scene when the body of Molly Bloom has been...
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Publisher
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Publication Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The marriage of Sylvie and Gowry McCulloch was not made in heaven and has gone through difficult times. Settled now in Dublin, they have a daughter, Maeve, whom they both love dearly. Sylvie presides over the respectable Shamrock Hotel while Gowry is a driver for Flanagan's bus company.
When Francis Hagarty explodes into their lives, however, everything changes. Fran is a journalist and gunrunner and hides a shipment of smuggled arms in the Shamrock....
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Publication Date
1997
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Language
English
Description
In 19th century Scotland, two sisters, Cassie and Pippa, vie for the love of Richard Montague, a fiery preacher newly arrived in a small town. Cassie wins the contest and becomes his wife, only to regret it as Montague begins abusing her, involves her in fraud and has an affair with Pippa.
11) The island wife
Author
Series
Isle of Mull trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
1998.
Edition
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Language
English
Description
The arrival of the Baverstock brothers on the beautiful island of Mull off Scotland's wild west coast, sets off a heartbreaking rivalry between sisters Innis and Biddy who both fall in love with the Baverstock's handsome young shepherd Michael Tarrant.
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Publication Date
1995.
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English
Description
In the early 1930s the Burnside boys do their best to make ends meet and help their sister, Alison, fulfil her destiny. Alison's growing love for a teacher finally puts her career in jeopardy and brings her into conflict with her family and herself.
13) The wise child
Author
Series
Glasgow quartet volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
c1990
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Glasgow quartet volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
[1988]
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
1996.
Edition
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Language
English
Description
Love, infidelity and independent women in 1930s Glasgow. The central figure is working-class girl Alison Burnside, studying medicine thanks to the financial support of her boyfriend, Jim. But Jim is in a sanatorium and handsome Declan beckons.
Author
Series
Glasgow quartet volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
c1991
Edition
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Language
English
Author
Series
Patterson trilogy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's
Publication Date
[1986]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
