Three feisty Women books for £15.00

Two sisters should feel safe in the home of their loving family.

But 2 Poppins Lane hides some secrets which only come to light when feisty Susan Stern plucks up the courage to speak to a neighbour who is a teacher and a friend. The Sterns face many of the problems that beset all families. None of the players here are without their faults but they remain human and show courage and determination in their efforts to make the world better for those around them. Can 2 Poppins Lane be their sanctuary?

Patricia Striar Rohner doesn’t judge as she tells the partly dark, partly hopeful story of 2 Poppins Lane.

Warning: this novel contains scenes of sexual abuse.

ristmas is not a joyous occasion for everyone. Not at the Cross. Yet hope and humour remain.

Blaithnaid’s relationship with Kieran is not good. She has allies in Nadina the prostitute who soothes her with potatoes and Yoichi a Japanese neighbour who offers tea but only a little sympathy. David a neighbour supplies something approaching a festive Christmas with plum pudding and White Christmas. There is snow, there are Christmas lights and there are friends meeting for drinks. There is violence, there are threats and there is heartache. How will Blaithnaid find her way through all of this?

Christmas at the Cross – a Kings Cross story – is a novella in five parts from Bridge House Publishing. Maeve Murphy creates a compelling text, an authentic voice and a real sense of place.

enate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani Gödde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are burned and businesses owned by Jews are looted, Renate finds out a terrible secret about her family.

At a time when the world is at war and the horrors of the Holocaust are slowly becoming apparent, Renate has to leave behind her home and her friends, and become somebody she never thought she could be.

The house on Schellberg Street needs to stay strong. Will it and those who work in it be strong enough? Will Renate ever feel at home again? And what of those left behind?