20th Century
The Golden Day
While the Vietnam War rages in a distant land, eleven Australian school girls deal with their own struggles of friendship…
The World is a Wedding
The World Is a Wedding is a sequel to The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals,…
Silent Noon
Fourteen-year-old Barney Holland is sent to board at Carding House School on Lindsey Island in the North Sea after his…
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
Evelyn Roe is a teenage girl working on her family farm in North Carolina towards the end of the Second…
Desolation Island
At heart an early 20th-century tale of adventure, Adolfo Garcia Ortega’s Desolation Island is a dense and meaty novel for…
The Sleep Room
Readers of Frank Tallis’ Max Liebermann mystery series can rest assured that Tallis is just as good a writer when…
World War I Tales: The Last Flight
1916. Young Alfred Adams in a private in the British Army about to be sent to the Western Front. He…
The Ice-Cold Heaven
In 1914, in spite of impending war, King George V gives the go-ahead for Irishman Sir Ernest Shackleton, expedition commander…
Manna from Hades
Manna from Hades is the first of three Cornish mystery novels published in the UK in 2013 from the pen…
A Wolf in Hindelheim
Rural Germany, 1926. Set in an isolated small village, this story relates a series of strange events and the human…
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