20th Century
The Girls in Blue
When her London home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Miranda Beddoes has no choice but to take refuge at…
The Nightingale Girls
This is a story about love and life for three very different girls as they become nurses on the wards…
Whispers of a New Dawn
This is the third book in Murray Pura’s Snapshots of History series, and the second featuring Jude and Lyyndaya Whetstone,…
The Last Telegram
Editors' choice
In England in 1938, 18-year-old Lily Verner has exciting plans to travel to Switzerland. Then, upon returning home from Vienna,…
Helga’s Diary
Having read only a small amount about Terezin, a ghetto/concentration camp where many Jews spent time during the war, I…
Little Exiles
Convict transportation to Australia had ceased by the 1860s, but for the next century Britain sanctioned the exportation of another…
Motherland
“Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer…
The Mussolini Canal
Editors' choice
Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini…
The Storyteller
Sage Singer thinks she doesn’t have much to live for after losing both parents and becoming disfigured in a car…
Honey Brown is Married
Dreadful title, very enjoyable book. The novel follows the fortunes of Honey Brown (previously, abandoned orphan Annie) after she has…
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