Marilyn Sherlock
The Ballroom Blitz
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Bombs are falling on London, the blackout is in full swing, and Londoners are making for the shelters as soon as the sirens ...Read Review
The White Rock
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‘For a long time there was only water here… then, one day, a rock appeared, a white peak above the waves: the first ...Read Review
The Pudding Lane Plot (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner, 15)
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London 1666. The city is completely unsettled. The population is recovering from the plague, and rumours are spreading everywhere about a Second Coming when ...Read Review
Wartime Friends
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1938. Fears of war are prevalent. Eighteen-year-old Carolyn lives on a farm on the Lincolnshire coast with her parents and fifteen-year-old brother, Tom. Carolyn’...Read Review
Glorious Poison (Battalion of the Dead series)
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Paris, 1794. The Revolution is over, and Robespierre is dead, but all is not peaceful. There are two groups at work. One has the ...Read Review
The Silent Child
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The story opens in 1943. Hanna is a small child, rescued from Poland, who arrives in the fens in Cambridgeshire to live with Uncle ...Read Review
A Wedding for the Biscuit Factory Girls
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“You gave us away. You got rid of us because you decided you didn’t want us anymore. Get out.” Mavis Kendrick has ...Read Review
The White Hare
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The beginning of WW2, and Magdalena and her daughter Mila leave Poland for the safety of London, where they stay until 1954. During that ...Read Review
Kingscastle
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‘I have to inform you my lord… once the documentation is provided, that you are the fifth Marquis of Athelney.’ With which news ...Read Review
Dark Hunter
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May 1317. Bannockburn has been fought and won by Robert Bruce, who now calls himself King of Scotland. Berwick-upon-Tweed is on the English side ...Read Review