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The Baker’s Sister
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Leeds, 1898. After three years of hard work, Meg Fairfax has finally saved enough money to buy her beloved bakery. Her fiancé Frankie is ...Read Review
Nineteen Steps
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The novel is inspired by the experiences of Brown’s grandmother, who lived in London during the Second World War and survived the ...Read Review
The Orphanage Girls Come Home (The Orphanage Girls, 3)
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The final instalment of Mary Wood’s The Orphanage Girls series spans from 1910 to 1919 and begins by following Amy (who was notably absent ...Read Review
The Air Raid Book Club
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At one level this is another feel-good book about the resilience of the British people during the wartime bombardment, not just the Blitz ...Read Review
Codes of Courage
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Although much is known about Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking center in Buckinghamshire, an hour outside of London, little is written about the ...Read Review
The Yorkshire Farm Girl
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The story starts on a busy Christmas Eve, 1938. The girl of the title is Sally Fothergill, who lives with her brother and parents ...Read Review
The Last Letter from London
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Pam Lecky’s third instalment in the Sarah Gillespie series sees our intrepid Irish heroine taking care of a volatile young woman that ...Read Review
Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen
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In March 1943, 28-year-old writer Annie Laurence has made it on Broadway. Her new play runs in a sold-out theatre. But after two months, ...Read Review
A Wife’s Courage
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London, 1944: in the third book of Neale’s Battersea Tavern trilogy, the wife of the title is Maureen, unhappily married to the work-shy, ...Read Review
The Palace Girls
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Back in the London Blitz of 1941, Millie Hendry, aged 11, loses both parents and is subsequently raised by firm-but-fair Aunt Edie, long-standing cleaner at ...Read Review