WW1
Captain
In 1915, fifteen-year-old Billy Bayliss enlists in the army, using his older brother’s papers to pretend he is seventeen and…
Last Train to Waverley
Douglas Ramsay is a young officer, experienced in the carnage of the Great War, who is assigned to the 20th…
Hardcastle’s Quartet
In June 1918, Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the A (Whitehall) Division of London’s Metropolitan Police is presented with…
Call of the Kiwi
Third in the In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga, Call of the Kiwi once again features two…
Teardrops in the Moon
The novel opens on 28th June 1914, the day Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, in Devon where a middle-class…
The Downstairs Maid
The author’s biography says she “has penned over one hundred novels under different pseudonyms.” A little research reveals that Rosie…
Hope at Dawn
Livy Campbell is the daughter of an all-American family; with two brothers fighting overseas, she desperately wants to help her…
The Flowers of the Field
Originally published in the early 1980s, The Flowers of the Field is the first part of Sarah Harrison’s Flower Trilogy…
Do Not Forget Me Quite
Do Not Forget Me Quite spans nearly twenty years of a family’s life, starting on the eve of WWI. The…
Before the Fall
Editors' choice
Before the Fall is the debut novel by Juliet West, inspired by real events in London during the First World…
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