The must-read, Sunday Times bestselling First World War love story [ About In Memoriam ] It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they’re too young to enlist, and anyway,…
‘A story of motherhood, music, loss and redemption, set in the latter part of WWI and post-Armistice.’– Lucia’s War [ About the Book ] London, 1949. Opera singer Lucia Percival is due to perform her last concert. But she has no intention of going onstage. A terrible secret from the First World War has finally…
‘Courage can be found in the unlikeliest of places’– A Single Thread [ About the Book ] It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to…
Paris in the Dark ~ Kit Cobb is back Welcome to the City of Lights Adventure awaits Drawing on his own experience as a war veteran and news reporter, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Robert Olen Butler has created a thriller described as a ‘page-turner with an unmistakable literary quality’ Paris in the Dark is the fourth Kit…
Today I have a review of the truly poignant novel Last Christmas in Paris. Written by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb and just published by Harper Collins/William Morrow, I highly recommend for all lovers of historical fiction and the wartime years.
Recently I came across a local Cork Writer, Aedin Johnston, who has written a book about a topic very close to her heart, entitled Finding James. Her Granduncle, James O’ Connor was a Cork man who was called to the Colours in August 1914. He nearly made it to the end of the war but died…