Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society– The Queen of Fives [ About The Queen of Fives ] They whisper her name in every corner of town.The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.Five moves, five days – for such are the rules of her game. 1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London’s…
‘Will Eliza be able to keep her family safe at the edge of the world? And can her marriage survive all that the island throws at them?‘– The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife [ About The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife ] Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons…
‘Discover the spellbinding portrait of two women determined to find their freedom. Perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, The Doll Factory and The Essex Serpent.‘– The Secret Photographs The Secret Photographs by Jacquie Bloese was released in paperback October 3rd with Hodder & Staughton (originally published in hardback as The Golden Hour). I am delighted…
‘From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove’s new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer…‘– Rivers of Treason [ About Rivers of Treason] London, 1607. As dawn breaks, Daniel Pursglove rides north, away from the watchful eye of the King and his spies. He returns,…
‘Two powerful families. A changing world.‘– A Kennedy Affair [ About A Kennedy Affair ] When Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy left England to return to America, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, future Duke of Devonshire and the man she loves, had told her he could never marry her. Now, in 1943, as London stands…
‘Until now, I have shared the specifics of that first meeting between us with no one. If I let them, people would pore over every detail, handle each scrap. Shop-soiling with their touch. Strangers can be inclined to pry…once the link is made, they swamp me with questions. Usually, I say she was Arthur’s wife…
‘It all began the day he found out that his sister was his mother’– The Inheritance [ About The Inheritance ] It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in…
‘I had written just one word – there was not space for more. I had written only ‘hope’‘– Hope Never Knew Horizon [ About Hope Never Knew Horizon] Wexford County, 1891. The unlikely discovery of a beached blue whale sets in motion a series of events leading to the present-day re-installation of a fundamental piece…
‘The Second World War may well be drawing to a close, but there is still espionage work for Stefan to do amid the chaos…’– The Dead City [ About The Dead City ] In this dead city, the vultures are circling… Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of…
‘Edith Sloan returns to her beloved bookstore on Harvard Square and establishes a press for publishing poetry.’– The Hedgerow The Hedgerow by Anne Leigh Parrish published July 9th with Unsolicited Press and has been described as ‘an elegant, character-driven novel of paradoxes, revealing universal human truths‘. It is the sequel to An Open Door (October 2022),…