Joan Fallon

It is September 1940. Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are living in the East End of London with their mother. Their father has been killed at Dunkirk, and their mother goes into hospital to have her fourth child, leaving the children with a neighbor. In one of the worst bombing...

The Prisoner is a fast-moving story of adventure and romance set in the exotic and vibrant 11th-century city of Málaga, and is the third novel in The City of Dreams series. It opens when a young Moorish prince wakes to the filth and stench of his new home; at first he can’t understand...

Early one morning, the ambitious pirate Captain al-Awar makes a lightning raid on the shipyard in Málaga and kidnaps Bakr, a master shipbuilder, and two of his workmen. Before anyone can do anything about it, they have disappeared....

In the first of a new historical series set in Moorish Spain, Joan Fallon sets the action in the busy medieval port of Málaga. Following on from the successful al-Andalus series, we meet again with the younger members of the family who had escaped from the besieged city of Córdoba....