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The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)

The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Kiel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1933-1940

Kiel, Northern Germany, 1933. A naval city, the base for the German Baltic fleet, and the centre for German sailing, the venue for the upcoming Olympic regatta in 1936. The Kästners, a prominent Military family, are part of the...

The German Girl

The German Girl
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Helsingør, Malmö
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

‘Our parents were taken. And if we go home, the Nazis will take us too…’ Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense – synagogues have...

The Girl Behind the Wall

The Girl Behind the Wall
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart....

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII and 2019

Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...

The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by...

The Giver of Stars

The Giver of Stars
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Centry

England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over...

The Golden Girls Road Trip

The Golden Girls Road Trip
  • Author(s): Kate Galley
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s never too late for one last adventure… Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she’s never been one for putting down roots. She’s spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a...

The Good Doctor of Warsaw

The Good Doctor of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Gifford
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’ Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under...

The Good Son

The Good Son
  • Author(s): Paul McVeigh
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn’t a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him ‘gay’. It doesn’t help that his best...

The Great Alone

The Great Alone
  • Author(s): Kristin Hannah
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love. Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently-returned Vietnam...

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