WW2
The First Wave
Irreverent and sarcastic, young Billy Boyle arrives in French North Africa in 1942 to broker a peace between the Vichy…
The Dragonfly Pool
Eleven-year-old Tally Hamilton loves her simple life in London with her physician father and doting aunts. But when a second…
It’s One of Ours
This is a story that begins on the day of the first air raids in London, 1939 and weaves…
Wave of Terror
Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
Arrows of Desire
Life is hard for Beth Somerville in a Glasgow torn apart by the Second World War. Her sweetheart, Teddy,…
The Penny Bangle
It is 1942 and a nineteen-year-old munitions worker, Cassie Taylor leaves Birmingham to become a land girl in Dorset. When…
Day
Editors' choice
Alfie Day has been an RAF tail gunner and a starved, beaten POW. Five years have passed, and Alfred…
Blue Skies and Gunfire
Set in World War II, the story begins with Josie’s final term of school being interrupted when she is…
Shelter From the Storm
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from…
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