Jasmina Svenne
The Fever Tree
1878. Orphaned by the death of her father, Frances Irvine faces a stark choice. Spurned by her mother’s grand relatives…
The Promise
May Thorpe is 11 years old on the night of the air raid on Coventry. Her adored brother Jack is…
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
At the dawn of the 17th century, two very different men set out to prove Copernicus’s hypothesis that the sun,…
Three Miles
1940. During an intense Luftwaffe bombardment of Leeds, Captain Abraham Matthews finally corners Albie Crowe, leader of the gang of…
Mistress of My Fate
In October 1789, fearing for her life, 17-year-old Henrietta Ingerton makes the fateful decision to flee from the only home…
The German Boy
Elisabeth Mander’s life is in turmoil. It’s 1947, and her dead sister’s teenage son, Stefan Landau, is coming to live…
Below Stairs
Posthumously reprinted to coincide with the upsurge in interest in the Edwardian era due to the popularity of the television…
Aphrodite’s War
Growing up half-wild in a village outside Keryneia in northern Cyprus, Loukis Economidou cares more about his mother Dhespina and…
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
As Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr has often been relegated to a footnote in history, or caricatured…
The Holy Thief
Editors' choice
Moscow 1936. When the mutilated body of a young woman is found on the altar of a deconsecrated church, Militia…
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