Jasmina Svenne
The German Boy
Elisabeth Mander’s life is in turmoil. It’s 1947, and her dead sister’s teenage son, Stefan Landau, is coming to live…
Below Stairs
Posthumously reprinted to coincide with the upsurge in interest in the Edwardian era due to the popularity of the television…
Aphrodite’s War
Growing up half-wild in a village outside Keryneia in northern Cyprus, Loukis Economidou cares more about his mother Dhespina and…
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
As Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr has often been relegated to a footnote in history, or caricatured…
The Jewel Box
Editors' choice
Grace Rutherford is a pioneer. By day she is the first female copywriter at a stuffy advertising agency. By night,…
Memory of Flames
When Lieutenant Colonel Margont is ordered by Joseph Bonaparte to investigate the murder of a colonel charged with drawing up…
The Harrowing
On the eve of joining his regiment in January 1916, William Redmond takes one last walk with his younger brother,…
As If By Magic
On a stormy night in October 1923, the destitute and feverish George Lassiter breaks into a house in Mayfair to…
The Incendiary’s Trail
When the murder of conjoined twins, Eliza-Beth, shocks Victorian London, Detective Inspector Newsome hatches a daring plot to solve…
Darkest Hour
Sergeant Jack Tanner hasn’t even been at Manston training camp for 24 hours before he realises something dodgy is going…
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