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The French Spymistress by Rachel Hore

2 July 2026 By Editor

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 […]

Victory Days for West India Dock Road by Renita D’Silva

1 July 2026 By Editor

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

29 May 2026 By Editor

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

22 May 2026 By Editor

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

21 May 2026 By Editor

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

21 May 2026 By Editor

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 […]

The women who plotted aircraft battles in the Siege of Malta

21 May 2026 By Tracy Cook

Tracy Cook’s debut novel was inspired by the women who plotted aircraft battles during the Siege of Malta – the only civilians to do such work during the Second World War. Though they’re largely forgotten now, their highly-skilled work helped the RAF to defend the island against German and Italian forces in the early 1940s. […]

The Lost Orphans of Lyon by Helen Parusel

16 May 2026 By Editor

Lyon, Occupied France, 1942, and when Yvette Dubois’s husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind ­– only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Isolated among unfamiliar staff, Yvette feels trapped in a life she never wanted. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the […]

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