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 French Spymistress by Rachel Hore
When World War Two breaks out, the courage of two women will be tested to the limit. In Occupied France, Marie-Louise, a headstrong, single woman with two young children, is recruited into a secret intelligence network. She must collect privileged information about German military activities to help the Allies liberate her country. Her skill and […]
Under cover for Britain: two female WWII agents, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and Barbara Bertram
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade led a French intelligence network supplying information to MI6. Barbara Bertram ran a secret safe house for agents in Surrey. They met several times. Here, Rachel Hore writes about how the two women sparked the idea for her new novel, and the challenges of writing fiction about real people. My new novel, The […]
Victory Days for West India Dock Road by Renita D’Silva
It’s June, 1944, and as news of D-Day reaches London, the residents of West India Dock Road dare to celebrate. But amid the bunting, shared food and children’s laughter lie fear, grief and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Divya has built a life for herself and her son that she once thought impossible, in […]
A Wartime Promise for the East End Girls by Jean Fullerton
It’s 1943. Nell Reilly is ready to fight with everything she has for a better future. Brought up in London’s tough East End, she is fiercely determined to keep the promise she made to her little sister Jo to build a new life for them one day. Until a chance meeting changes everything… Absorbed in […]
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 […]
The Bloomsbury Murder by Mike Hollow
January, 1941. Amid the devastation of the Blitz, Detective Inspector John Jago is called to Bloomsbury where the body of a woman has been found. Rosemary Webster was known for her generosity, offering refuge to bombing victims and refugees from war-torn Europe. Now she is the victim of a brutal, cold-blooded murder. As Jago traces […]