In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the newly married...
This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don’t ride around on broomsticks. They don’t even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So...
Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...
1940. Along with millions of other London residents 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated to the countryside to escape a city threatened by German bombs. Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his...
It’s 1939 and a mass evacuation of London’s children is about to begin. That includes Jack, who’d much rather stay on the streets of Woolwich, bombs or no bombs. When Lady Ashwell patriotically sweeps him off to the Hall,...
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