20th Century
Palisades Park
If you’re still searching for the perfect beach read, look no further. Alan Brennert brings to life the crowds, the…
Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter
Wealthy sisters Rowena and Victoria Buxton, along with their friend Prudence Tate, return in this sequel to Summerset Abbey. Victoria…
Eleven Days in August
Using a format popularised by Anthony Beevor in his Stalingrad, Cobb uses a lot of firsthand evidence from ‘ordinary’ diarists…
The Great Escape
Summer 1939. Robert Edwards, aged twelve, and his nine-year-old sister, Lucy, live in London with their parents and three pets:…
Rose Under Fire
Rose Justice is an eighteen-year-old American pilot who travels to England in August 1944 and joins the Air Transport Auxiliary.…
Love and Lament
Love and Lament takes place in rural North Carolina during the 30 years leading up to and including World War…
Fatal Inheritance
London, 1900. Detective Vanessa Weatherburn has a new and baffling case. The young violinist, Sebastian Cavendish, has committed suicide, leaving…
Traitor’s Gate
Conrad de Lancey is an idealistic, young Englishman with a German mother. Disillusioned by his experiences fighting with the International…
A Hundred Summers
Lily Dane returns to Seaview, Rhode Island, on Memorial Day of 1938 to begin another summer at her family’s home…
The Ways of the World
It is 1919, and Paris is seething with diplomats and politicians wrangling over the aftermath of the First World War,…
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