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Escape To London

This work is set in Austria, 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienna, amid crowds ...

Out of the Shadows

Times move on for the Adams family in south London, and as business prospers, there are new worries to deal with. A young woman arrives w...

Rising Summer

Tim Parkes was three when his parents were killed in a train crash and he went to live with his Aunt May, first in New Cross, and then to...

Spreading Wings

Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity. When he hears from his son David about the new-fangled supermarkets...

Nurse Anna's War

It is a frosty April evening in occupied Belgium when a beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued...

The Last Summer

Job and Jemima Hardy weren't Londoners by birth. They had both lived in a Sussex village until lack of work had sent Job and the family t...

The Longest Winter

When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna, the attraction is instant. A whirlwin...

Appointment at the Palace

Excitement is running high in the Adams family. Mr Finch, after a long career in secret government work, is to be knighted - which means ...

A Sign of the Times

It's 1959, and Boots Adams and his wife Polly are helping to celebrate the retirement of barman Joe at their favourite Camberwell pub, wh...

Sergeant Joe and on Mother Brown's Doorstep

Year of Victory

The seemingly endless war was at last coming to a conclusion. But for the country and for the Adams family, there were still many tribula...

Changing Times

It is 1953 - Coronation year - and like all of Cockney London the members of the Adams family are looking forward to the celebrations. Ch...

Family Fortunes

The 1950s are in full swing, and the Adams family is blessed with many new additions. Chinese Lady now has so many grandchildren that eve...

Tomorrow is Another Day

From autumn 1941 to the first months of 1942, the war continued to affect the lives of the Adams and Somers families. It was not so mu...

The Way Ahead

It is 1944, and the Adams family, along with the rest of the people of the United Kingdom, are beginning to weary of the seemingly never-...

Ups and Downs

Ups and Downs

As the 1950s progress, several unexpected happenings ruffle the usually calm atmosphere of Adams family life. Sammy and Boots are trouble...

Missing Person

The house in Caulfield Place, off Browning Street in Walworth, was haunted, or at least that's what the street kids said. So when two men...

The Family at War

It was 1940, and many of the younger members of the Adams family were caught up in the war in France. Boots, now a Major and on the staff...

Churchill's People

In 1941, the United Kingdom was in desperate straits, standing alone with its troops against the colossal war machine of Nazi Germany. Th...

A Girl Next Door / Ups and Downs

Boots Adams celebrates his 60th birthday in style with an old-fashioned Cockney knees-up, even if Gemma, James and the rest of the younge...

Tomorow is Another Day

From autumn 1941 to the first months of 1942, the war continued to affect the lives of the Adams and Somers families. It was not so much ...

A Girl Next Door

It is 1956, and Boots Adams is celebrating his 60th birthday with a good old-fashioned cockney knees-up. But a new generation is growing ...

Bright Day, Dark Night

It is summer, 1941, and the country is still at war. In the Devon village of Ashleigh, however, evacuees from the London blitz are living...

Homecoming

It is 1946, and most members of the Adams family who had been serving with the forces begin to come home. But grandson Daniel is still se...

The Trap

When Jamie Blair took lodgings at Larcom Street, he had no idea he was walking into a trap. The house was owned by Henry Mullins, who mad...

Two for three farthings

A saga of Cockney life that is set in Lambeth and Walworth. Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, finds Horace aged ten and Ethel aged seve...

The Lodger

Echoes of Yesterday

It was June 1916 when Sergeant Boots Adams of the Royal West Kents, together with his men, was billeted on the Descartes farm in Northern...

Fire Over London

The war is only into its second year, but already it has claimed one victim from the Adams family. Other members of the family have their...

Sons and Daughters

A Family Affair

1926 was the year of the General Strike, but Adams Enterprises, under the wily management of Sammy Adams, youngest entrepreneur in Walwor...

The Ghost of Whitechapel

When fiery Bridget Cummings advertised for a lodger, she did not expect a policeman to apply for the room. She wasn't fond of the coppers...

The Camberwell Raid

A double wedding was planned in Walworth. Sally Brown was marrying Horace Cooper, and her brother, Freddy, was getting hitched to his chi...

Our Emily; King of Cabmerwell

This book follows the trials and tribulations of a growing family post war London. When you start reading the Family's Saga you will be c...

The Young Ones

The sequel to "Two for Three Farthings". Once street waifs, Horace and Ethel Cooper are now respectable, and living with adopted parents....

The Homecoming

It is 1946, and with the war at last at an end the younger memebers of the Adams family, parted for the duration, begin to come home...

King of Camberwell

Two great novels featuring the oncomparable Adams family OUR EMILY -Emily had been a quite horrible child. Pushy, rough, and none too cle...

The Hopecoming

The Adams family gets to grips with peacetime....

Sons and Daughters

By the year 1949, life in Walworth has almost returned to normal. Sammy and Boots, now in a highly successful partnership, are rebuilding...

Pride of Walworth

There was a new family in Browning Street, Walworth - the Harrisons. Respectable and well-behaved, the only thing unusual about them was ...

Sergeant Joe

Everyone liked Sergeant Joe. From the huge jolly Beavis family with whom he had lodgings in Newington Butts, to Mr George Singleton, Char...

Escape To London

This work is set in Austria, 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienna, amid crowds o...

The Price of Freedom

South London in the 1930s ...and Mrs Hilda Jones is fed up with her dull husband. She thought marrying would liven him up, but after twen...

The Soldier's Girl

Young Maisie Gibbs is a conscientious young woman, though life is harder since both her parents passed away. She is relieved when she fin...

A Wartime Marriage

It is 1918; the Kaiser's empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips, a prisoner of war in a Romanian hospital, has had a very har...

Family Fortunes

The 1950s are in full swing, and the Adams family is blessed with many new additions. Chinese Lady now has so many grandchildren that eve...

The young Ones

A wonderful new saga of the Cockneys of Walworth. Once they had been called Orrice and Effel,two bedraggled,scruffy waifs who lived rough...

The Soldiers Girl

The wonderful story of Chinese Lady and how she met Daniel Adams.Pretty, young Maisie Gibbs is a conscientious young woman, though life i...