Geoffrey Harfield
Alice’s Girls
A World War II British land girls’ story by one of the script writers of the excellent House of Elliot,…
The Wounded Heart
Oh joy! A properly constructed and satisfying story of devotion through the tribulations of war and illness. Though a beautifully…
An Heir for Burracombe
Lilian hits the jackpot again with her Coronation Street look-alike romp in Devon, starting the day after the 1953 Coronation.…
A Glimpse at Happiness
Josie O’Casey returns to East End London overjoyed to discover her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, is alive and well. Her…
The Crooked Cross
This is a masterly fiction of events and characters who, in 1933, hatch an elaborate plot to kill Hitler in…
Tainted Tree
This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the…
The Lie
Neither the nondescript title, nor the bleak cover, does justice to this outstanding wartime saga, a charming family story with…
The Spies of Warsaw
This is a difficult to follow but fascinating study of French intelligence-gathering in Central Europe, prior to World War II.…
A Penny a Day
This, one of Lilian Harry’s Burracombe novels, is the fourth of her books I have reviewed. They were all excellent…
Hardcastle’s Burglar
This is a most enjoyable police procedural, fast paced and easy to follow, an expert piece with a clever subtlety…
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