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The Long Journey Home

By Cecily Blench - Published 2021

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Rangoon, Burma, in 1941, and Kate Girton works as a school inspector for the British colonial government. Kate has fled grief in England, and ...Read Review

The Stasi Game

By David Young - Published 2020

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Thriller

Dresden, Communist East Germany, 1982. Hauptmann Karin Müller of the People’s Police and her small team are tasked with investigating the murder ...Read Review

A Prince and a Spy

By Rory Clements - Published 2021

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Thriller

1942. The King’s brother, Prince George, Duke of Kent, is killed in a mysterious air crash in the north of Scotland, but was ...Read Review

The Wreck

By Meg Keneally - Published 2020

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By the mid-1800s, the authorities in both England and the rapidly developing young cities in Australia were trying to contain demonstrations and ...Read Review

The Gypsy Bride

By Katie Hutton - Published 2020

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Saga

In 1917 Ellen Quainton says goodbye to the man she is to marry. He’s off to war, never to return. Devastated by his ...Read Review

City of Spies

By Mara Timon - Published 2020

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Thriller

This debut novel opens in Paris in June of 1943 when we meet Elisabeth de Mornay, an Englishwoman employed by the Special Operations Executive ...Read Review

The Return

By Harry Sidebottom - Published 2020

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Thriller

You might suppose that a man who has earned the garlands of a Corona Civica for saving the life of a fellow Roman ...Read Review

A Woman’s War

By S. Block - Published 2019

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Saga

Simon Block was behind the TV drama Home Fires, and his novel Keep the Home Fires Burning (2018) was reviewed in HNR 86. These introduced ...Read Review

Stasi Winter

By David Young - Published 2020

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Thriller

Fans of David Young’s Stasi novels will not be disappointed by this one, Stasi Winter – and what a winter it is. The ...Read Review

The Girls from Greenway

By Elizabeth Woodcraft - Published 2019

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Saga

Chelmsford, Essex, in the mid-1960s, is not the most “happening” of towns. Teenager Angie Smith is bored with her factory job and ...Read Review