Jasmina Svenne
Gloria
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Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is 16 when a violent deed forces her to flee to Kingston with her sister. There…
Queen’s Gambit
1543. With her second husband Lord Latymer scarcely cold in his grave, Katherine Parr is summoned back to court by…
The King’s Spy
Even in a quiet backwater like Romsey, pacifist bookseller and mathematician Thomas Hill cannot entirely avoid the lawlessness and disruption of…
Elizabeth I
From the threat of the First Armada to the queen’s deathbed, this novel sweeps through the reign of Elizabeth and…
A Ship of War
The Terror is at its height. Charles Hayden, captain of HMS Themis, is on the point of setting sail for…
The Fever Tree
1878. Orphaned by the death of her father, Frances Irvine faces a stark choice. Spurned by her mother’s grand relatives…
The Promise
May Thorpe is 11 years old on the night of the air raid on Coventry. Her adored brother Jack is…
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
At the dawn of the 17th century, two very different men set out to prove Copernicus’s hypothesis that the sun,…
Three Miles
1940. During an intense Luftwaffe bombardment of Leeds, Captain Abraham Matthews finally corners Albie Crowe, leader of the gang of…
Mistress of My Fate
In October 1789, fearing for her life, 17-year-old Henrietta Ingerton makes the fateful decision to flee from the only home…
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