Jonathan Cape
Our Friends in Berlin
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London, March 1941, at the height of the Blitz, when the threat from Nazi Germany was severe, and invasion and defeat faced Britain. Jack ...Read Review
The Western Wind
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England in February 1491. John Reve is the priest in the small, benighted village of Oakham, in Somerset. He is told by the rural ...Read Review
Warlight
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The title of this dreamlike novel refers to the tiny, discreet points of London street illumination used during the WWII blackouts, which were ...Read Review
The Only Story
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England in the early 1960s. Paul Roberts is nineteen and home for the summer holidays after completing his first year at Sussex University. ...Read Review
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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With the recent emergence of a particularly nasty strain of a flu virus, ostensibly from Australia, causing immense discomfort to many sufferers, this ...Read Review
Queens of the Conquest, 1066-1167
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Alison Weir charts the lives of Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror; Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry I; Adeliza of ...Read Review
Eureka
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London in the swinging sixties. Having been a failed actor, Nat Fane is a playwright/screenwriter in his late 30s who is struggling ...Read Review
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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The title of this volume reflects a certain nostalgic appeal, as being the final time that large English (mostly) rural residences for the ...Read Review
Freya
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The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work for the Wrens and ...Read Review
The Stopped Heart
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Mary and Graham Coles, attempting to rebuild after a tragedy, move into a cottage in a small English village. Mary, gripped by soul-destroying ...Read Review