Val Wood

Brought to you by Penguin.1850: Beatrix Fawcett is just eighteen when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Hesitant, but with little choice, she...

Brought to you by Penguin. 1864: Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband, Beatrix and her three children are finally free. While Ambrose has...

Harriet and Fletcher Tuke have worked hard to raise their children well. Daniel, the eldest son, has always accepted that his birth father died soon after he...

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull. Her adored father often travelled by sea to the Netherlands, leaving her with an unaffectionate...

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby - the home of the wealthy Rayners. She knocks at the...

Brought to you by Penguin.At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he's shown no mercy by the...

Brought to you by Penguin.Hull, 1874. The beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to...

The choice was hers - fame and fortune or true love.Poppy Mazzini, born in Hull over her father''s grocery shop, lives up to the promise of her fiery red...

Annie Swinburn had killed a man -- the killing was timely and well-deserved, for Francis Morton had been evil in every possible way. But Annie knew that...

Holderness, 1846.For reliable, thirteen-year-old Bella, life isn't turning out quite as she'd hoped. She lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run...

Sarah Foster's parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father, Will, is involved in a terrible accident at...

When Polly Anna''s mother died when she was just three years old, it seemed the workhouse was the only place for her to go. But with the help of Jonty - a...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Place to Call Home by Val Wood, read by Anne Dover. Ellen thought she'd always live in the remote, pretty...

Can two friends find hope in hard times?Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood, they have supported each...

1860 Harriet Miles is trying to take care of her seriously ill mother, and just when she thinks things couldn't get any worse she is fired from her job at...

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Going Home by Val Wood, read by Anne Dover.For Amelia and her brothers and sisters,...

Brought to you by Penguin.For ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, life has never been easy. Every...

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Emily by Val Wood, read by Anne Dover.Emily was only five years old when she was sent...

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote, watery island fastness on the wild East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the motherly Mrs Drew, she...