‘It starts with the panic, the sound of sharp knocking. The pounding on Annelise’s door, a crash in her skull, jolting her from sleep.They’re coming.’– Send For Me [ About the Book ] Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the…
‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…
‘It will take great strength and friendship if the shipyard girls are to weather the storms to come.‘– The Shipyard Girls on the Home Front I am delighted to be joining Nancy Revell on tour with her latest novel The Shipyard Girls on the Home Front. Just published today with Arrow Publishing, The Shipyard Girls…
‘Bletchley Park, 1940 : a betrayal, a secret and a code she must break at any cost‘– The Rose Code [ About the Book ] 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break…
On a ship packed with the guilty how do you prove your innocence?– Dangerous Women [ About the Book ] London, 1841. The Rajah sails for Australia. On board are 180 women convicted of petty crimes, sentenced to start a new life half way across the world. Daughters, sisters, mothers – they’ll never see home or family…
Three sistersOne shared destiny-The Glorious Guinness Girls [ About the Book ] The Glorious Guinness Girls are the toast of London and Dublin society. Darlings of the press, Aileen,Maureen and Oonagh lead charmed existences that are the envy of many. But Fliss knows better. Sent to live with them as a child, she grows up as part…
Betty Wellows is running for her life….– You’ll Never See Me Again Lesley Pearse is a much-loved storyteller for many reasons. In the UK alone a Lesley Pearse book is purchased EVERY 4 minutes, with her tales packed with characters that her readers truly care about. ‘ There is no formula to her books or…
Today I have my review of Mrs Whistler, the latest novel by Matthew Plampin and published by The Borough Press May 2018.