WW1
Valentine Joe
A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must…
Rugby Warrior
This story is the second in a series about Eoin, Brian and school rugby in Ireland, the first being Rugby…
War Song
War Song pictures working-class life in Portsmouth and nursing in France during WW1. Twin sisters, Dorothy and Florence, together with…
Poppy
Christmas, 1914, the country is at war. But for Poppy Pearson, parlourmaid to the de Veres, life goes on as…
Remembrance
1915. Charlotte Armstrong-Barnes, rising sixteen, longs to do something useful for the war effort, like nursing, but her genteel mother…
My Brother’s Keeper
In 1915 young Londoner Alfie joins the army. He’s fifteen, full of patriotic fervour and eager to see action. Despite…
Sabotage
The third in a trilogy (after Saara’s Passage, 2008), Sabotage continues the story of a Finnish-Canadian family during World War…
A Barricade in Hell
This is the second in a series of paranormal mysteries set in San Francisco after the onset of WWI. Delia…
An Unwilling Accomplice
It’s 1918 and Bess Crawford, of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, has just returned to London from France with…
The Storms of War
The strapline of this WW1 saga, the first of a trilogy, announces: “Atonement meets Downton Abbey”. The book begins in…
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