It’s September 1940, and British intelligence is on high alert: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. The German navy is assembling a vast fleet in Rotterdam to ferry men and materiel across the Channel. Meanwhile, a sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work within the […]
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The Alchemist’s Secret by Clare Marchant
When Paige returns to her ancestral family home, Woodham Hall, she’s nursing an unbearable heartbreak. The man she’d thought she loved has told her the most terrible lie, one she feels she’ll never recover from. The only thing that seems to be able to hold her interest is the story of a poisoning that once […]
Tyranny of Indulgence by Richard Kurti
It’s 1517, and in Rome progress on St Peter’s Basilica has been slow, but stone by stone the walls are rising. The stress has taken its toll on Cristina Falchoni, who is struggling with failing health. She keeps it a secret from everyone, especially her brother, but deep down she fears it is more serious […]
The River Warriors by Michael Arnold
The Romans have landed in Britain. The invasion is over, but the resistance has just begun. The legions march inland, but progress is slow, hampered by vast, ancient forests, swamps and treacherous rivers that must be crossed. But, guided by traitorous Celts blinded by self-interest, progress they do. Marshalling the fractious tribes, High King Tugodubnos […]
Spider, Spider by LC Winter
Young Nancy Ratcliffe is on the run. Her father had sought refuge for his family with the Brethren, led by the charismatic but dangerous Prophet. But now her father is gravely ill, and even the sooty streets of Victorian London hold less terror for Nancy than the brutality of Brethren Hall. Meanwhile, Spider is biding […]
Ship of Thieves by Douglas Skelton
Jonas Flynt’s stepmother, Mercy, has been abducted from Edinburgh and carried back to the West Indies by her former owner. Gideon Flynt his father, has followed in hot pursuit, but Cassie, Jonas’s first love, knows he is not the man he once was and appeals to Flynt for help. Naturally, he agrees. Against Colonel Nathaniel […]
A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor
It’s May, 1945, and in the last days of World War II, Monkshill Park School for Girls stands far apart from the violence in Europe. Yet a woman has been murdered in its grounds. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, has disappeared. The teachers and girls whisper that she’s run away, but in […]
Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein
In 1552, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened ex-nun Lysbette Angiers arrives at Charlotte Guillard’s famous Paris printing shop with her manuscript, neither woman knows just how far the powerful elite will […]