2008 (UK)
The Aviary Gate
Oxford researcher Elizabeth Staveley is intrigued to discover an ancient fragment stuck in a book. The fragment tells of a…
Sarah’s Key
Paris, 1942: ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe when the French…
The Spies at Warsaw
In the autumn of 1937, Warsaw was still a city at peace, although wary eyes looked to the West with…
The Red Scarf
Editors' choice
The Red Scarf is an epic tale of survival and hope in Stalinist Russia. It is 1933, and Sofia and…
Silesian Station
American journalist John Russell arrives home in Berlin after a trip to the States in the summer of 1939. After…
The Cairo Diary
The Cairo Diary is two mysteries for the price of one, a historical detective story embedded in a contemporary psychological…
The Creator’s Map
The violent death of an aristocratic former Fascist and Nazi sympathiser in 1952 is the catalyst for this mystery story…
Skeletons at the Feast
Editors' choice
Once in a while a novel comes along that crawls into your soul from the first page and won’t let…
Her Every Pleasure
Princess Sophia and Major Gabriel Knight are the main characters in the third part of Gaelen Foley’s Spice trilogy. Sophia…
The Reserve
Set in America in 1936 against the background of the Depression and the growth of Fascism in Europe, in Spain…
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