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In Love and War
In July 1919, three women converge upon Hoppestadt, a Belgian village just behind the former Western Front. Shy Englishwoman Ruby…
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
One of Charles I’s more attractive qualities was his affection for his wife and children, whose privileged existences were shattered…
The Constant Soldier
Editors' choice
In late 1944, veteran of the Eastern Front Paul Brandt is invalided home, maimed and disfigured almost beyond recognition. When…
The Watercolourist
Editors' choice
“It was easy to think I knew everything. I felt like I was on top of the world. And then…
The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
The Marriage Bureau takes on the journey of Audrey Pearson and Heather Jenner, bored and unfulfilled by mundane jobs in…
The Hidden Thread
Anna Butterfield leaves her father’s Suffolk parsonage for the home of her uncle, a wealthy mercer in Spitalfields, the centre…
The Hidden Thread
This quiet novel centers on a gentle romance set against the backdrop of the silk industry in 1760s London. Inspired by the unknown early…
The Shadow Sister
This, the third book in the Seven Sisters series, follows Star D’Aplièse as she searches for her own family and…
The Sword of Attilla: Total War: Rome
If the first novel in this Total War: Rome series concerned the birth of the Roman Empire, The Sword of…
Blue Moon
Ruby Bateman works as a chambermaid in the best hotel in Worthing, Sussex, a good job during the Depression. However,…
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