20th Century
The Night I Danced With Rommel
The Night I Danced with Rommel is based on the real life events of the author’s mother and recounts the…
Betrayal in Burgundy
Betrayal in Burgundy is centred around pilot James Chalmers, who is a young man dealing with the realities of war.…
An Invitation to Hitler
Britain stands alone in June 1940. The army has been routed in France, and the horror of Dunkirk has just…
Lark Farm – In Flanders Field
Short, charming, and captivating, Lark Farm is a delightful tale of a retired Scotland Yard inspector who decides to take…
Songs of Willow Frost
Ford returns to Seattle for inspiration in his eagerly awaited second novel, after the wildly successful Hotel on the Corner…
The Séance Society
Young Lee Plunkett has inherited his father’s private-eye business but doesn’t seem cut out for the job as much as…
Record Breaker
It’s 1963, and because he’s afraid the Russians will drop an atomic bomb on Ottawa, or the steel factories in…
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
In 1833, in the village of Plumstead, elderly George Bodle, along with all those in his household, falls ill immediately…
Ghost Moth
In 1969, bloody rioting in Belfast in Northern Ireland exploded into the decades-long Troubles. Michèle Forbes’ excellent first novel works…
Dusk
Set against the backdrop of WW1 and, more specifically, shortly before and during the Battle of the Somme, this first…
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