WW1
A Good Woman
In 1912, nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington’s privileged world is shattered forever when the sinking of the Titanic destroys her family. Her…
In Zodiac Light
This novel is bound to invite comparison with Pat Barker’s Regeneration: set in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, its ostensible…
The Winter of the World
Love, betrayal, and a terrible debt to pay are the themes of The Winter of the World, the debut…
A Wartime Marriage
It is 1918 and Captain Harry Phillips is a prisoner of war in a Romanian hospital. When Major Carlsen tells…
A Pale Horse
Tenth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Pale Horse finds Rutledge searching for a missing man in Berkshire,…
The Measure of Days
In this, the 30th book in the Morland family saga, the euphoria of the early war years is evaporating. There…
Signed, Mata Hari
In October 1917, Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris, accused of being…
The Last Train to Kazan
Ryzhkov, a former Tsarist agent who appeared in A Game of Soldiers, returns to Moscow only to be picked up…
A Passion Most Pure
In 1916, the Great War is raging overseas, and a smaller war is brewing in the Boston O’Connor household. Two…
Life Class
In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by…
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