WW1
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay is a series of short stories featuring Idella and Avis Hillock and the people who…
The Day the Falls Stood Still
1915, Niagara Falls, Canada. This carefully crafted story illuminates both the pre-war status quo – a world where well-brought-up young…
Underground
This novel opens with the protagonist, Albert Fraser, a 16-year-old Canadian volunteer, at the front during the battle of the…
The Fallen Kings
January 1918, and volume 32 of the Morland Saga. No conscientious objectors here; all the adult Morlands are doing their…
The Dogs and the Wolves
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a Jewish banker. In 1918, the family fled the…
The People’s Train
This is a fictionalised biography of Artem Sergiev, prisoner in pre-revolutionary Russia who fled to Australia in 1911. In Thomas…
A Cold Season in Shanghai
Shanghai, in the years before World War One. Tatiana and her family have escaped Tsarist Russia after the…
Until We Meet Again
In the summer of 1914, there were rumblings of the war to come and the devastating effect it would have.…
A Duty to the Dead
Editors' choice
Todd (the pseudonym for a mother-son writing team) departs from the Inspector Ian Rutledge series in this engrossing mystery featuring…
The Harrowing
On the eve of joining his regiment in January 1916, William Redmond takes one last walk with his younger brother,…
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