Poor Little Rich Girls

Congratulations to Glenda Barrett, Cate Elliot and Sonia Patel fro winning copies of Poor Little Rich Girls.

Along the Thames and Book Guild Publishing have teamed together for your chance to win one of three copies of “Poor Little Rich Girls” by Moss Murray

For your chance to win one of these copies, please send an email to Competition@AlongTheThames.co.uk by the closing date.

The competition closes on 11th March and the winners will be announced on this web-site as well as being published in the April/May

Diamonds, furs, money and greed for the 1960s heroines of this novel

It is the 1960s and women are wanting – and winning – more, far far more, than the cards Fate dealt them at birth.  For some like Penny Welling, it is the honour of being a Dame, having the ear of the prime minister and being spokesman for the entire British tourist industry.  For others like the feline beauty, Marianne Wilkinson, an ancient European title together with a fabulous fairy-tale castle, an ancestral necklace of triple-looped black pearls and yards of mink.  While others such as Christiana Stephanopolous – wife of a Greek shipping tycoon – prefer to dress in sable while dreaming of heading the Board Room.  Yet even the haughty, scheming and mega-successful Christiana risks being eclipsed by her ambitious daughter, Stephanie, a feisty eighteen-year-old with all her mother’s beauty and business brains yet with markedly different ideas on the route to becoming an empress of an international industrial giant  …

The Enigma Mission

Congratulations to Lauren Kirkman, Maya Russell and Martina Joslin for winning a copy of the Enigma Mission.

It is well known how important breaking the German Enigma code was to the Allied War effort, ad hte vital role played by those at Bletchley Park in cracking the cipher.  But what if Nazi Germany sent spies to England to ensure the protection of their code – at all costs?

Stan Ingram, who worked as a electrician on the Bombe machines at Bletchley Park, has created a thrilling tale of espionage and heroism at the heart of the deciphering operation.