The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...