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The Sleeping Beauties

By Lucy Ashe - Published 2024

Genres:

Thriller

Now the war’s over, Rosamund Caradon can take the evacuated children in her care back to their London homes. She’s accompanied ...Read Review

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By Shubnum Khan - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Akbar Manzil, a mansion neglected and abandoned, is seeing new life with a motley crew of tenants taking up residence in its assorted ...Read Review

The Lie

By Mary Chamberlain - Published 2023

Genres:

The story centres on two sisters, Joan and Kathleen. Beginning in the Second World War, the plot takes the reader through their lives ...Read Review

Morgan Is My Name

By Sophie Keetch - Published 2023

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This is a stunning retelling of the story of Morgan le Fay from a talented debut author. Morgan’s story has been told ...Read Review

Clara & Olivia (UK) / The Dance of the Dolls (US)

By Lucy Ashe - Published 2023

Genres:

Thriller

Clara and Olivia are twin sisters, ballerinas with great talent who have worked hard to win their places at Sadler’s Wells in 1933 ...Read Review

On the Rooftop

By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Published 2022

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Near the end of this outstanding historical novel, an outsider says, “…amazing…the way you take care of each other.” On the Rooftop ...Read Review

The Forgotten

By Mary Chamberlain - Published 2021

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London in the Spring of 1958. Betty Fisher (born Bette Fischer) and John Harris, a school teacher, meet at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ...Read Review