Elizabeth Hawksley
World War I Tales: The Pigeon Spy
1918, France. The Germans are in retreat but, somehow, in the chaos of war, the American 77th battalion of 200…
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
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London, 1914. It is Alfie Summerfield’s fifth birthday, and news has just broken that fighting has started in France. World…
Five Dead Canaries
1916. In the third of Marston’s Home Front Detective series, six young female ‘canaries’ from a munitions factory supplying the…
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
1880. In London’s East End underworld, the fearsome Lady Ginger reigns supreme, ruling her criminal empire with ruthless efficiency. Opium…
My Friend the Enemy
1941, a village in North-East England. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. Peter, aged twelve,…
1913: The World Before the Great War
In his introduction, Emmerson explains that he wants ‘to look at the world in 1913 through contemporary eyes, in its…
World War I Tales: The Last Flight
1916. Young Alfred Adams in a private in the British Army about to be sent to the Western Front. He…
The Grand Sophy
The Napoleonic Wars are over. Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy, abroad on diplomatic business, leaves his daughter, the strong-minded Sophy, in London…
Vango: Between Earth and Sky
1934, Paris. Vango, a teenage boy of mysterious origins and with an unusually isolated childhood, is about to be ordained…
Belle Epoque
Paris, 1888. Sixteen-year-old Maude is in search of a better life. But Paris can be a cruel city, and economic…
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