It's December 1942, and German air raids have devastated south London.
While their husbands and loved-ones face up to Hitler's forces in Europe and North Africa, the women of Lavender Road have their own problems to confront.
Lavender Road is a perfectly ordinary London street. But in wartime ordinary people sometimes find themselves doing extraordinary things, and nurse Molly Coogan and actress Jen Carter are about to take on the biggest challenge of their lives.

LONDON CALLING was shortlisted for the 2017 RoNA Award for Best Historical Romance.
'In this dramatic and poignant novel, hugely popular British novelist Helen Carey depicts the courage and resilience of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary war.'

London Evening Standard. 'What a fantastic book. Loved it from the first page.'
Amazon review 'This book is an incredible tale of bravery, love and trust.'

This New Yorker was forced into a type of isolation when she moved from Italy (a beautiful but still strange place) to Germany on the outskirts of a military base in the middle of nowhere for a four-year period. She found the cultural differences to be challenging, as well as highly entertaining, but she found a savior, and his, her, its name was podcast.

About the Book This is the first new and unexpurgated translation of Meddygon Myddfai, The Physicians of Myddfai, for over 150 years. The original mediaeval manuscripts are unique, being written in Middle Welsh, whereas across England and the rest of Europe, Latin was the universal language for documents. Nicholas Culpeper's famous 17th century medical handbooks are at least five hundred years later than the genesis of the works of the Myddfai mediciners. Around 1000 Welsh remedies and suggestions for a healthy life make fascinating reading, with many being useful today. The evocative Legend of the Lady of the Lake (Llyn y Fan Fach) is included. This tale is the starting point for the line of practising Myddfai physicians from being court mediciners to Prince Rhys Gryg (d.1234) until the present day. Not only has the herbal and healing tradition carried on for around 800 years, but the places named in the legend can still be seen, and many of the plant cures have uses in modern medicine. About the Author Terry Breverton has written over forty books, with his main focus being upon Welsh history, heritage and culture. A former businessman, consultant and academic, he has worked all over the world, has given talks about Wales in Boston, Washington, Vancouver and elsewhere, and has appeared in several documentaries. He believes that books, whether in print or electronic form, have to be entertaining and informative, and hopes that this is the case with The Physicians of Myddfai.

It's August 1944. Allied forces are finally making headway in Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a chilling reminder that the war is not yet won. Victory may be just round the corner, but the fighting is far from over for the women of Lavender Road.

Helen de Burrel knows from bitter experience how dangerous things are in war-torn France, but it's a long time since she heard from Andr Cabillard, her French fianc , and nothing is going to stop her going back to track him down. Meanwhile, her friend Molly Coogan has returned to London after a spell of nursing in North Africa, and now it is suddenly important to her to discover the truth about the mother who gave her up for adoption when she was four years old.

Sweeping from London to France and on into Germany as Hitler's army begins to retreat, Victory Girls is full of emotion, excitement and suspense, which will hold readers on the edge of their seats

September 1939

As the nation braces itself for war, the residents of Lavender Road are dealing with troubles of their own.

With her husband in jail, Joyce Carter is never sure where her family's next meal will come from. And her troublesome daughter, Jen, isn't helping matters by refusing to work until she achieves her dream of becoming an actress.

Pam Nelson is struggling to deny the distance growing between her and her husband - which isn't helped by her secret attraction to their handsome new lodger. And unfortunately Pam isn't the only one to fall for his seductive charm...

As the threat of a German invasion looms, the lives of the women on this south London street are about to change for ever...

It is 1940, a year into the Second World War. London is now a very dangerous place. But despite the bombing and the privations, living and loving must go on.

Shy Katy Parsons from the pub summons the courage to enroll as a nurse, but quickly discovers that the rigours of hospital life are hard to bear, although not quite as hard as falling in love with an unobtainable man.

Away on an ENSA tour, Jen Carter finds herself unexpectedly homesick. While her mother, Joyce, prefers to face the terror of the burning streets on the WVS van than suffer her husband's violence at home.

The friends and neighbours, men and women, rich and poor, the inhabitants of Lavender Road face up the the trials and tribulations of the London Blitz.

It's January 1944. The British are weary of air raids and rationing. But now there are rumours of an Allied invasion of France. The tide of the Second World War finally seems to be turning.

For the residents of London's Lavender Road, however, the war seems determined to thwart their plans for future happiness.

When an attractive American officer arrives at her factory to recruit volunteers for a secret project, Louise Rutherford leaps at the opportunity, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be anywhere near as easy as she thought.

Actress Jen Carter's relationship with theatrical producer Henry Keller hits a hurdle when a former boyfriend unexpectedly reappears, and when V1 retaliation rockets start hitting London, even Jen's mother's tentative romantic dreams come under threat.

Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other.

With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who made up this distinct part of Wales. The author, Rob Sheffield, shares first-person accounts of how the area formed then lost the strong bonds that held the neighbourhood together. And he describes growing up here, leaving for university, and the effect of this on identity and family.

From this story of Greenhill arise implications for community development everywhere, including the importance of collaboration between local residents and government.

Marvel's world-famous Cinematic Universe is set in an alternate reality called Earth 616. The Secret Origin of Earth 616, reveals how it came to be.

David always wanted to be a writer for Marvel Comics when he was a child. Find out how he fulfilled that dream and how his stories of Captain Britain spawned the multiverse which became the setting of the most successful film franchise of all time.

Discover why superheroes are so popular, the importance of the secret identity and the world of British Comics in the 1980s and 1990s, the power of alternative realities and alternative versions of yourself, and how David used this concept to overcome his disability.

A no-nonsense, straightforward and practical guide to help business people develop a more confident personality and more emotional resilience in today's increasingly stressful working world. With a foreword by Dr.P.Thomas. The BBC Wales Business Doctor. Some people bounce back from negative experiences better than before. Some become bitter, overwhelmed and stressed. Which route do you follow? Most people find themselves responding negatively because they don't realise the self-confidence and emotional resilience needed to choose the positive responses can be learnt and developed. Increasing your levels of emotional resilience and self-confidence will create an inner strength and bounce-back-ability factor; allowing you to respond more usefully to whatever life throws at you. Unlike most people, you will take control rather than be controlled. How good will that feel? This practical guide can help you get there. This guide is for you if: -You want to make profound changes to the way you live your life. -You need to improve your emotional resilience and self-confidence. -You are keen to learn new methods, techniques and adopt new mindsets. -You are prepared take full responsibility for your future growth. Nothing in this life is worth anything if it has not been earned so if you are not scared by some hard work and effort and you want some solid practical guidance about where to best direct your effort, this practical guide is definitely for you.

A coming of age, family saga.

Megan Owen, a teenager, is torn between two opposing worlds. One in Wales, one in England. And between two diverse lads - Welsh wild boy Iolo, and the cultured English Hugo. As she moves through adolescence to adulthood, experiencing both the rollercoaster of farming life in Wales in the late 1950's, and the turbulence of the post-war cultural revolution of London, England, we see her battle to decide where she truly belongs, and with whom. Will it be the world of nature, farming and tradition in Wales? Or, the brave new sophisticated world flowering in London as it heads into the hippy sixties? Is it possible for love and personal empowerment to co-exist in these times?

Through heartache and drama, Megan discovers there's no easy answer. No easy way to make choices, either. Particularly when fate will keep interfering...

PART ONE - Megan Owen, 13 years, old, dreams of being a farmer alongside her older brother, on the land she's lived on since she was born. But in the male dominated community of the 1950's, situated on the Welsh border with England - this is a tall order. Against all of this how can Megan ever attain her dream?

PART TWO - A year on, Megan is 15. Her father is recovering. Megan is lost. When extra help is needed with the lambing season, Iolo returns. Secretly, Megan visits Iolo's home in the Welsh mountains, learns to ride his wild horse, becomes enchanted with his gypsy free way of life, and falls in love for the first time.

PART THREE - Megan hates the Metropolis at first. But, influenced by Mabel, brought along as her chaperone, who tells her shocking wartime tale of being in London during the blitz.

PART FOUR - Great Aunt suffers a stroke. A shocked Megan abruptly returns home with no time to say a proper goodbye to Hugo. When Great Aunt dies she leaves Megan her house in the hope she will one day live in it. But now Megan feels like an outsider in Wales. Megan is left feeling torn between two opposing worlds. And two opposing lads - Iolo and Hugo. She seeks solace in writing, finds a voice for herself. Takes a part time job with the local newspaper, starts to stand on her own two feet. She chooses to stay loyal to Iolo, who has now proved himself an invaluable member of the farming community, even to her father and brother. At last they can be a couple, openly.

But then Foot and Mouth disease strikes the farm.

A novel of Berlin, living with the Bomb, Punk, protest and alternatives, set in West Berlin in the 1980s, when the city was a focal point of the Cold War and surrounded by the Berlin Wall and Communist East Germany. The missiles are armed and waiting in their silos. If nuclear war breaks out there will be a four minute warning. There is no internet and perhaps NO FUTURE. Reality? Sur-reality? Or hyper-reality? In this punk-lit novel Kurtis Sunday provides an on-the-spot account.

This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? When a storm surge destroys Tomos' luxury home and his parents die, and Bryn's eco-home is torched and his parents killed by starving marauders, these two rivals for the same girl, Eira are forced to rely upon each other for survival in the wild uplands of Wales. One of them will die, but not before they discover the astonishing bond that joins them together. And none of these three teenagers are aware that they are living out an ancient rivalry between fabulous beings - such as Ceridwen, the Welsh Goddess of Inspiration - who are seeking to rewrite the endings of their own stories.

These poems cover a huge span of subjects including, though not limited to, our evolving and complex relationship with nature, and our place in the world. They are by turns thought provoking, uplifting, lyrical, sound-rich, memorable and challenging - yet always deeply accessible, and with a crystal clear poetic voice running throughout.

The Listening Conductor explores one of the most important aspects of choral training and development - the power of listening. Why do we need to listen in rehearsals? How do we develop and improve our listening? How does focussed listening impact on choral development? How does actively listening to a choir provide conductors with creative opportunities to improve ensemble?

Written in response to choral training and workshop events and as part of a highly competitive assistant conductor development programme, The Listening Conductor is full of unique exercises, hints and tips for vocal coaches and conductors. It aims not only to be a reference support to conductors of singing ensembles of all ages, sizes, genders and affiliations but to be the 'go to' book on the one discipline that all conductors of voices explore and use at every rehearsal.

Coupled with a companion podcast.

Teams have the power to increase productivity and morale or to destroy it. When teams work effectively, they can make better decisions, solve more complex challenges, are more creative, and prepared to go the extra mile. 'The Secrets to Motivating your Team' is a practical, empowering, no-nonsense book, that explains why teams are often demotivated, and the subsequent cost to the business. This guide provides you with practical and easy to implement tools and techniques on how to get - and keep - your team highly motivated, which will make a significant contribution to the'bottom line'.

Taf Valley Lives, the new book by the noted Welsh historian Dr Denley Owen, includes 200 black and white, sepia and colour rare exclusive photographs. For the first half of the 20th century the rural valley of the Taf, which along most of its path divides the counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, changed little from its description in 1926 as... ...the most remote and little explored region where dissent is embittered and all-powerful in such a cloistered world opportunities for the working class severely limited children were destined for a life in service. By 1944 two World Wars in thirty years served to loosen the grip of Dissent and affordable motor transport helped to overcome the valley's remoteness. Most tellingly the introduction of free education and health care in the late 1940s went some way to provide working class children with a more level playing field which allowed them access to opportunities beyond the world of labouring. In this important historical record Dr Denley Owen reveals how three generations of labourers coped with their pre-war entrapment in the valley and how a working class family embraced the new opportunities available in the emancipated post-war community of the Taf Valley. These treasured memories of old Welsh agricultural Society resonate far beyond the small valley from which they come. Denley Owen's careful record has opened the window for us on this vanished way of life, which engaged so many but is now remembered by so few. Thomas Lloyd OBE., DL., FSA Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary

'Reading, writing and walking: such an agreeable way to pass the days...' This is Rhian's discovery after she takes early retirement and travels to spend time on solitary retreat in a beautiful corner of Wales. From there her life unfolds in ways she could not possibly have foreseen. She revisits fragments of her childhood, reconciles fragile family relationships, survives a bad bout of flu and makes new friendships, especially with her rather eccentric neighbour. Her story and his become entwined and lead to life-changing events for both of them in her through-the-looking-glass existence. 'Step through the canvas, end the mirror-phase...'

Set against the magical backdrop of Pembrokeshire's Coast Path and surrounding area, the heart of this novel is Rhian's exploration of what 'home' means, and how that can change. 'Day by day this place, with its serenity and seclusion, continued to nurture me, away from the intruding world. The worst of the winter was now over, and March beckoned with its daffodils, primroses and quietly fattening buds...'

Rhian discovers that the poetry she has longed to write takes inspiration from her surroundings and echoes her inner journey.

How remote it seems,

That time I had the fever,

A patchwork of dreams

Stitched by a phantom weaver

For a dream-believer.

In this powerful volume of verse Lloyd Rees examines three key aspects of the relationships a man has with women - with a mother, a daughter and a wife. A confident mastery of form is demonstrated in the taught structures of the expertly crafted poems, but it is the astonishingly frank emotional honesty that shines here. There is rich imagery and beautiful melody but there is also a penetrating wit and startling humour in these elegies to loss and paeans to hope as the poet shines a laser light of truth on family ties.

Celine Dubois is a brilliant scientist working on advanced scientific research into the foundations of reality. A committed lesbian, she is based at CERN in Switzerland and is brusque, dedicated, efficient and definitely does not suffer fools gladly. Then one day, two very strange things happen to disturb her self-assurance.

Firstly, she opens an e-mail from a disgraced former physicist that informs her that Earth is a farm and all humans are the prey of a race of invisible parasites that infest them and cause degenerative diseases. Naturally, she disregards it.

Secondly, at a meeting she hears one of her junior colleagues relate how his staff are reporting mysterious events, which some of them refer to as seeing ghosts. Ordered to investigate this claim Dubois is at first dismissive but then herself encounters the inexplicable phenomenon of a column of grey mist that seems to be trying to entrap her. And yet she can find no evidence on the CCTV that it existed.

Later, both Dubois and Hilda, her girlfriend, realise that they are both suffering from different forms of autoimmune illness.

Afterwards, Dubois has a meeting with the physicist who sent the peculiar e-mail. He is Marius Larsen, a physically imposing Norwegian who was sacked after a failed experiment involving a powerful laser. Larsen claims a side-effect of that accident, which apparently killed his friend, is that he can now see the parasites - which call themselves hran. Dubois has him thrown out.

Dubois and partner are promoted to take part in research using a new, very powerful particle collider in Japan. However, this facility also reports inexplicable happenings in which people are vanishing without trace. Dubois finds that Larsen has followed her there and is still peddling his claims. Both Larsen and Hilda go missing.

She discovers that she has been transported to a ruined Earth some centuries on from her time. After being held captive by some degenerate humans, she is eventually rescued by the agents of an entity called Kewfor.

Reunited with both Larsen and Hilda in Kewfor's citadel she learns the horrific truth: the hran are very real and their subjugation of humanity has only just begun. All three must cross to the realm of the hran in a desperate, final attempt to defeat the parasites and reclaim the Earth.