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Waratah House
On a ship to Australia in the 1880s, Marina is orphaned after a fever outbreak and is taken into the care of James and Sarah, who are headed for…
If You Go Away
Adele Parks is best known for contemporary novels often described as “chick-lit”, so I approached this venture into historical fiction a little warily. But I needn’t have worried,…
The Grey Raider
In 1863, Confederate commerce raider Manassas, under the command of Captain Pelle, sails the seven seas chasing and sinking any merchant vessel flying the Stars and Stripes. When her…
The Bletchley Girls
This is a collection of memories and experiences of fifteen women still alive in 2014 who worked in various capacities at Bletchley Park during World War II. Much…
Deadlight Hall
This is the fifth book in a haunted house series featuring academic Michael Flint, his girlfriend Nell and a charming rogue cat called Wilberforce. Professor Leo Rosendale asks…
Time and Again
It is Christmas 2024 and ex-SAS operative turned social media celebrity, Hugh “Guts” Stanton (think Bear Grylls), is approached by a secretive group of Cambridge University dons to…
A Dangerous Place
Since leaving England and her investigation business behind, the life of Maisie Dobbs has been transformed, but at great cost. A double tragedy in Canada has her fleeing…
The Whispering City
Barcelona in 1952. When glamorous widow, Mariona Sobrerroca, is found murdered in her mansion, Inspector Isidro Castro is assigned to the investigation. Young newspaper journalist, Ana Marti Noguer,…
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
One chapter in this novel begins: “Tombstone was glad to see the end of 1881. Hell of a year, everyone said, shaking their heads. Fire, flood, famine, blood…
Evergreen Falls
The setting for this dual-period novel is a grand old spa in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and is inspired by the life of the author’s…
Ashes in the Wind
Tomas Sullivan, Gaelic Catholic, and John Burke, Anglo-Irish Protestant, become friends at school in County Derry in 1908. As the boys grow up and Ireland lurches towards its…
The Night Falling
It is a hot summer in Puglia, early 1920s. Socialist and war veteran Ettore labours in the fields helping to support his sister Paola and her child, but…
The Separation
It is 1955. Lydia returns to her home in Malacca after visiting a sick friend, expecting to be welcomed by her husband Alec and daughters, Emma and Fleur,…
Three Daughters
This is an epic saga spanning three generations from a Palestinian village near Jerusalem. The women are all bound by secrets that have a common thread. In the…
Goodnight June
June Andersen is a career-driven New York banker teetering on the edge. After an alarming health episode, doctors warn her to change her ways, but she only takes…
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