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Welcome Strangers

Product Description: As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again. Alice Fairley, her friends and her family are surprised to find themselves so unprepared for peacetime. In a way, it's like starting all over again: all the things one was confident about have disappeared or changed shape somehow, while things which were acceptable, or even pleasant, now seem different, dull, irksome...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819164 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again.

9780708917114 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, November 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this complex and satisfying conclusion to Hocking's trilogy the war is over, and the warriors have returned from their far-flung adventures.

Paperback:

9781509819171 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $22.65 | About this edition: As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again.

The Winter City

Product Description: The conflict between personal responsibility towards individuals and concern for which is no less forceful today than when Mary Hocking wrote this novel. The Winter City is set in an Iron-curtain country where the people are on the point of rising against their Communist government...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819393 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: The conflict between personal responsibility towards individuals and concern for which is no less forceful today than when Mary Hocking wrote this novel.

Paperback:

9781509819409 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: The conflict between personal responsibility towards individuals and concern for which is no less forceful today than when Mary Hocking wrote this novel.

Indifferent Heroes

Product Description: It is 1939, and great changes come running to meet them all, snatching at their innocence and steadfast convictions and tossing them far away. Alice, Ben and Guy travel overseas, serving in the same war but on very different battlegrounds...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819133 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: It is 1939, and great changes come running to meet them all, snatching at their innocence and steadfast convictions and tossing them far away.

Paperback:

9781509819140 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: It is 1939, and great changes come running to meet them all, snatching at their innocence and steadfast convictions and tossing them far away.

The Sparrow

Product Description: The theme of The Sparrow is the conflict presented to Ralph Kimberley, a London vicar, by his ardent support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Although a kind, well-intentioned man, he does not realise the effect his sympathies are having on his parish, nor on those who are close to him...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819225 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: The theme of The Sparrow is the conflict presented to Ralph Kimberley, a London vicar, by his ardent support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Paperback:

9781509819232 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: The theme of The Sparrow is the conflict presented to Ralph Kimberley, a London vicar, by his ardent support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Ask No Question

Product Description: The Alpine tunnel is closed, so two men ignore their orders and head for the St. Bernard Pass, taking them to Italy . . . Later, they learn that if they had obeyed orders, they would have been ambushed. Stephen Mitchell and Dan Burke are British agents assigned to keep an eye on a scientist suspected of intentions to defect, but in the obscure way of bureaucracy, they have little in common with one another...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819294 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: The Alpine tunnel is closed, so two men ignore their orders and head for the St.

Paperback:

9781509819300 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: The Alpine tunnel is closed, so two men ignore their orders and head for the St.

A Time of War

Product Description: A Time of War offers a first-hand looks at the dangers, loves and everyday dramas of a Fleet Air Arm Training centre. Set in the West Country, it give a Wren's- eye view of the WWII - following a group of young women as they enter the services world...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819324 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: A Time of War offers a first-hand looks at the dangers, loves and everyday dramas of a Fleet Air Arm Training centre.

Paperback:

9781509819331 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: A Time of War offers a first-hand looks at the dangers, loves and everyday dramas of a Fleet Air Arm Training centre.

The Young Spaniard

Product Description: There was a gleam of humour in his eyes, but it was not strong enough to counteract a certain bleakness in the thin face. What was there here for Rose? A Scots lawyer, James Kerr, has been asked by a relative to investigate the rumour that his cousin, Rose, has taken up with 'a young Spaniard'...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819256 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: There was a gleam of humour in his eyes, but it was not strong enough to counteract a certain bleakness in the thin face.

Paperback:

9781509819263 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: There was a gleam of humour in his eyes, but it was not strong enough to counteract a certain bleakness in the thin face.

Visitors to the Crescent

Product Description: When an antique shop in Holland Park is burgled, the seemingly quiet life of its proprietors, Edward Saneck and George Vickers, is suddenly in the spotlight. Why are the police so interested in a run-of-the-mill burglary, and what does it have to do with a hit and run which happened down the road? Upstairs in the flat above the shop, the residents are also hiding secrets...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819195 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: When an antique shop in Holland Park is burgled, the seemingly quiet life of its proprietors, Edward Saneck and George Vickers, is suddenly in the spotlight.

Paperback:

9781509819201 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: When an antique shop in Holland Park is burgled, the seemingly quiet life of its proprietors, Edward Saneck and George Vickers, is suddenly in the spotlight.

The Climbing Frame

Product Description: This is the story of how a trivial event may be inflated by press, television and mere gossip into a national scandal. A small boy falls off a climbing frame in his school playground: though he is hardly at all injured, his mother accuses the headmaster of negligence...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819485 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: This is the story of how a trivial event may be inflated by press, television and mere gossip into a national scandal.

Paperback:

9781509819492 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: This is the story of how a trivial event may be inflated by press, television and mere gossip into a national scandal.

Checkmate

Product Description: In 1948 Melita Jory ran away with a stranger and was not heard of again. In Polwithian, Cornwall, strangers are always noticed. So when an unknown man arrives in the village, enquiring about the Jory family, still living on the farm that has been theirs for decades, and Melita in particular, the news spreads until it eventually comes to the attention of Silas Jory himself, Melita's abandoned husband...read more

By Mary Hocking

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9781509819423 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: In 1948 Melita Jory ran away with a stranger and was not heard of again.

Paperback:

9781509819430 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: In 1948 Melita Jory ran away with a stranger and was not heard of again.

The Hopeful Traveller

Product Description: A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819454 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life.

Paperback:

9781509819461 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life.

Good Daughters

Product Description: What's so special about a son? Why doesn't she care about her daughters?' Mary Hocking brings good humour and sympathy to her depiction of the Fairley sisters growing up in their close-knit West London neighbourhood before, during and after the war...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9781509819102 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: What's so special about a son?

Paperback:

9781509819119 | Pan Macmillan, February 25, 2016, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: What's so special about a son?

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781850897330 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, July 1, 1994), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Stanley Fairley, headmaster and Methodist lay preacher, assumes that his three daughters will live according to the austere morality that he has instilled into them.

A Particular Place

Product Description: Set in a small West Country town, this new novel by the author of the trilogy "Good Daughters", "Indifferent Heroes" and "Welcome Strangers", concerns the family and social difficulties encountered by a newly-arrived vicar to the parish church of St Hilary.

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9780701134549 | Chatto & Windus, September 1, 1991, cover price $25.90 | About this edition: Set in a small West Country town, this new novel by the author of the trilogy "Good Daughters", "Indifferent Heroes" and "Welcome Strangers", concerns the family and social difficulties encountered by a newly-arrived vicar to the parish church of St Hilary.

Indifferent Heroes/Large Print

Product Description: In this fascinating and eventful second part of Mary Hocking's trilogy we discover what happens to the Fairley family and their friends, both young and old, once war has broken out. While some remain in England, enduring the fear and austerities of the Home Front, others, including the middle sister, Alice, are posted abroad to still harsher trials and temptations...read more

By Mary Hocking

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Hardcover:

9780708915325 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1986), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In this fascinating and eventful second part of Mary Hocking's trilogy we discover what happens to the Fairley family and their friends, both young and old, once war has broken out.

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