Janet Williamson
Forest Brothers
This debut novel opens in Estonia in 1918, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the country…
Call Nurse Millie
This novel, set in 1945, tells the story of Amelia (Millie) Sullivan, a Sister employed by St. George’s and St.…
A Conscious Englishman
Set in 1914 shortly after the declaration of war, this biographical novel covers the final years of journalist and poet…
Hornet’s Sting
This novel vividly describes the multitude of characters and exploits of Hornet Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and opens with…
The Reichsbank Robbery
This visually evocative novel, set towards the end of the Second World War, tells of Sturmbannführer (Major) Friedrich Schonewille, an…
Cymberie
Sir Richard Belvoir of Cymberie, Essex, hanged woodcarver Thomas Fisher for a murder he did not commit, leaving his young…
The Plum Rains and Other Stories
It was a pleasure to read this collection of informative and entertaining short stories set at the end of the…
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England
“You’ve got to be demented to want to fly,” Flight Lieutenant Silk of 409 Squadron Royal Air Force tells Air…
Christened with Crosses
Eduard Odynyets was born prematurely after his father was arrested for spying. Christened by his Catholic mother, Bronya, in 1939,…
The Penny Bangle
This is the third novel of a trilogy, and the first I’ve read. In 1942, Cassie Taylor is sick of…
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