WW2
The Kindly Ones
This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this…
Broken Jewel
A Japanese prison camp in the Philippines is the setting for a tense novel of brutality, endurance, hope, and, most…
Transgression: A Novel of Love and War
Editors' choice
In 1941, in German-occupied France, 16-year-old Adele Georges meets Manfred Halder. Halder, a 19-year-old German working as a clerk, offers…
Sure and Certain Death: A Francis Hancock Mystery
Francis Hancock is a middle-aged, half-English, half-Indian undertaker whose London “manor” is being systematically dismantled by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in World…
The Blind Side of the Heart
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned…
The Final Act
It is spring 1944. Before the war ends, Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines which results in devastating tragedy.…
Ciao Bella
Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Bridges of Madison County in this WWII tale of a love affair between an American soldier…
Turbulence
From time to time weather forecasters find themselves in the news (remember Michael Fish and the hurricane?) but mostly, they…
Letters for a Spy
In April 1943, the British set up Operation Mincemeat with the aim of fooling the Germans into thinking that…
Something Hidden
In 1928 a train crash and fire in Gloucestershire killed twenty people. Among the dead are two beautifully dressed…
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