Melinda Hammond
Waterloo: The Aftermath
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Using contemporary eyewitness accounts, anecdotes and reports, O’Keeffe paints a vivid picture of the events that followed the battle, with harrowing descriptions ...Read Review
Escape by Moonlight
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Summer 1939, and England is bracing itself for war. In the quiet country village of Nayton, Lucy Storey helps her boorish father to keep ...Read Review
The Girls in Blue
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When her London home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Miranda Beddoes has no choice but to take refuge at the family home, ...Read Review
The Girl on the Beach
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On a rare day out at the seaside, eight-year-old orphan Julie Monday meets the slightly older Harry Walker. It is an encounter neither ...Read Review
Spitfire Girl
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This is the third of Lily Baxter’s Second World War novels, and it follows the fortunes of 18-year-old orphan Susan Banks. She ...Read Review
We’ll Meet Again
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At seventeen, Meg Colivet is living a privileged life with her wealthy family at Colivet Manor in Guernsey. In April 1939, Meg and her ...Read Review
The Maestro’s Voice
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1926. Rocco Campobello is a world-renowned tenor – considered the greatest singer of his age – and after collapsing on stage in New York he retires ...Read Review
The Last Crusaders
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Barnaby Rogerson spent his childhood living on military bases around the world with his family. He played in the coves once used by ...Read Review
The Galliard
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Young Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after years of exile and is immediately caught up in the religious and political power ...Read Review
Wives of the East Wind
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Wives of the East Wind covers four decades of China’s recent history, beginning in the 1960s. It features newly trained doctor Wenya ...Read Review