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The beautifully rendered fiction debut in the US of preeminent WWII historian James Holland offers a unique angle on the conflict, chronicling the impact of the war on one British family and their small village. The village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year...

WWI is now in full swing and with their brothers away fighting the Graham sisters have an increasingly important role to play at the family smock mill. But while Daisy and her cousin Olive are both nursing and Holly has taken on the role of a busy mother and wife, Cynthia is stretched to her ends trying to help her husband keep the business afloat. Violet, meanwhile, having lost interest in the bakery, is heavily involved in the suffragette movement, causing rifts among the family. But through the ups and downs of war, love could be blossoming.

From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award winning author: a dramatic and hopeful story of escape and survival in WWII Europe. It is October 1944, and Hitler has dispatched Adolf Eichmann and his death squads to Hungary to annihilate the Jewish population. Julia Powers...

In the tradition of The Lost and The Postcard, a powerful novel of loss and restitution in and after wartime, like a detective novel in reverse. When young French woman marries and moves to her German husband’s small hometown, Bad Arolsen, she finds a world where no one discusses what the...

When Maria Bertram is summoned to Czechoslovakia for a secret mission against the Allies, she has absolutely no idea what the Germans have planned. Her goal is to avenge her family that was brutally murdered by a Nazi SS officer who used them as an example to scare the rest of her town into submission. The last thing she expects is to meet a mysterious man who is as equally determined to stop the Wehrmacht as she is.

The brand new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel.

In New York City a century apart, two women’s fates are bound by the dark legacy of the Midnight Diamond 2010. Jennie is working as a runner in the Diamond District when a friend’s sudden death leaves her with a cryptic note: “Not Safe.” Her search for answers leads her to an antique...

The Safekeep meets Portrait of a Lady on Fire in a gripping debut following a young Jewish painter in 1930s Berlin whose work is tampered with and exhibited under a man’s name, reckoning with art forgery, desire, suspicion, and resistance In raucous 1928 Berlin, Hannah Sherman has deviated...

A mesmerizing coming-of-age story of an extraordinary young woman in turn-of-the-century France as she rises to find a life she’d never dreamed possible She had always felt that she must stay in the shadows, that if she asked for little, she could not feel loss. But here was life and joy...

Two young women uncover the deadly secrets of a legendary estate—and their own dark bond—in this delicious historical thriller inspired by the mysterious origins of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and as could only be penned by the award-winning author of A Haunting on the Hill. It's the 1920s...

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. It’s 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice, calling him up to fight in the...

Everyone loves Johanna Bell: 'A heartwarming story of women discovering their inner strength . . . I couldn't put it down' Vicki Beeby 'I absolutely loved this book series, it's one of those where you feel lost when you've finished, like what am I going to do now? A definite must read' Reader...

Two women from different generations connect over their shared need to recover from trauma as they attempt to heal and begin their lives anew, from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Gift and The Beekeeper's Promise 2001: Overwhelmed by grief in the wake of losing her twin sister, Ruby...

The #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life returns with a thrilling tale of post-World War II London, a city eager to put the dark days of the war behind it, but where the peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past. When foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn...

In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood. Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare as a child during the Atlanta Race Riot of...

The second volume of Antonio Scurati's masterful trilogy, acclaimed as one of the great historical novels of the 21st century, and an international bestseller. M: The Ascent to Power takes the reader through the 1930s as Benito Mussolini transcends his youth as a small-time newspaperman...

1923. Diana Gold, owner and impresario, throws open the doors to the most opulent new hotel in London. As the champagne flows and the chandeliers shimmer, millionaires and gamblers rub shoulders with film stars and royalty. Everyone who’s anyone is here. Everyone, that is, except two guests...

From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War. In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian...

Set against the backdrop of mid-century Parisian glamour and the timeless art of perfumery, a captivating tale of resilience, love, and the intoxicating pursuit of passion. Élodie Limeaux's beloved mother, Aurore, was the most legendary perfumer in France before World War II, renowned for the...

This internationally bestselling novel tells the gripping saga of a secretly Jewish bartender who has no choice but to keep working at the Ritz Hotel during the height of the Nazi occupation in Paris. Paris, 1940. The Nazis have descended on Paris and the Occupation has begun. Businesses across...