WWII
The King’s War
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After the success of The King’s Speech, both as a book and a film, Mark Logue (grandson of the speech therapist Lionel ...Read Review
Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Although Death March Escape is a true-life story, it is structured like many historical novels in two time streams. The ‘historic’ stream concerns ...Read Review
Our Castle by the Sea
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Lucy Strange’s second book takes place on the Kent coast during the first months of the Second World War. Petra and her ...Read Review
The Spy with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers)
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Ilse and Wolf Klein have a secret: their blood is magical. They are accustomed to keeping secrets, which makes it slightly easier for ...Read Review
Blitzing Rommel
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Treatments of the subject of war vary hugely, ranging from the lyrical to the highly technical and historically meticulous, of which Blitzing Rommel ...Read Review
An Ocean Between Us
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A first effort at historical fiction by an established literary author, An Ocean Between Us begins as a flashback from present-day New York ...Read Review
In Search of Brigid Coltrane
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It is 1941 in Ireland; Peter Coltrane and his young daughter, Brigid, are fishing in Loch Gorm when they witness the executions of two ...Read Review
The Huntress
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Ian Graham and Nina Markova are different from other people in their post-WWII world. In her words: “You – in war you hunt stories, ...Read Review
Eleanor’s Secret
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Eleanor’s Secret is British born, Sydney-based writer, Caroline Beecham’s second novel. Her first novel, Maggie’s Kitchen, is the story of ...Read Review
Christmas at Tuppenny Corner
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1939, and 15-year-old Rosie O’Leary and her irascible mother, Maggie, work on a horse-drawn barge on the Leeds and Liverpool canal. It’s ...Read Review