In March, 1940, Bradford mill girl Molly Clough can hardly believe it when she successfully auditions for ENSA, the organisation that entertains the troops. Despite the much-mocked ENSA’s reputation as ‘Every Night Something Awful’, singing on stage feels like a dream come true for Molly. But as she tours with her troupe, the Forces Follies, […]
The Man She Had to Save by Catherine Hokin
When Vivi arrives in Madrid, she is captivated by its heat and colour, a world away from the grey of her life as a lonely newlywed back in Berlin. But her diplomat husband and beloved brother Christian are here for one reason only: to bring the Nazi regime to Spain, and to destroy everything that […]
The dark legacy of the Spanish Civil War
The legacy of the Spanish Civil War is still felt in Spain today, 90 years after it began. A culture of deliberate forgetting has meant that some of the darker truths about what happened are still covered up, as Catherine Hokin explains. My latest novel, The Man She Had to Save, takes place during the […]
Dwell by Rue Baldry
In January, 1919, a new gardener at a snowbound boarding school catches everyone’s attention. It’s rumoured he is a war hero. He’s 19-year-old Albert, haunted by Great War experiences and fighting the temptation of one particular prefect. What they want is illegal. Being caught would ruin them. Then Albert’s past finds him, making their quest […]
No Saints Only Killers by Luke Deckard
In 1922, American ex-pat Logan Bishop is a war-damaged, morphine-dependent private investigator. When his estranged father, Reverend Daniel Bishop, arrives in London from Chicago, Logan refuses to see him — until his father is brutally attacked. Before slipping into a coma, Daniel leaves Logan with a desperate plea: find Greta Matas, a woman tied to […]
The Tea Planter’s Secret by Clare Flynn
Ceylon, 1908, and Stella Baxter returns to the island paradise that once promised her everything — haunted by her father’s death and the brutal assault that left her with a baby she cannot love. Norton is waiting for her in Colombo. He rescued her from scandal, he sees her worth, and his steady presence offers […]
The Hunters and the Wrath by Patrick Larsimont
Spring, 1944, and fighter pilot Jox McNabb is back in Blighty for the first time in years. After a conflict with Allied superiors, he finds himself without a squadron and without a command. But when old acquaintances recruit him to be part of an elaborate deception, he has the opportunity to regain his wings. He […]
Wings Over Valletta by Tracy Cook
On Malta, in 1941, as bombs fall across the island and invasion looms, Kitty Campbell is haunted by the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption years before. Desperate to find her child, Kitty begins searching for answers — but uncovering the trail is complicated by her father’s secretive past and a mysterious […]