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1940. Britain has invaded neutral Iceland, but Daphne Devine has bigger problems. She has sailed into allied territory to track down a clairvoyant suspected of collaborating with the Nazis. As an undercover operative, Daphne must thread her way through a land steeped in shadow and riddled with...

From the author of Their Shadows Deep comes a powerful story of first love and second chances, deadly secrets and life-changing truths, closed chapters and open doors. Bestselling author and esteemed Ohio University Professor Emmet Maze is at the height of his career—and a world away from his...

Paris, 1940. She did not look back. She did not check to see if she was being followed. She simply walked, one foot in front of the other, steadily down the street. As darkness falls over Europe, Rose Hartwell answers a call for nursing volunteers on the Western Front. Desperate to do her part...

“Gripping, gorgeously written.” —Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre “Extraordinary.” —Elizabeth O'Connor, author of Whale Fall “Vivid...Asking what it means to make art in an emergency.” —Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries Portrait of a Lady on...

A BRAND NEW story from internationally bestselling author, Glynis Peters In wartime London, Winder Street clings to survival as the Blitz tears through the East End. London, 1940. Chrissie runs a busy newsstand with grit and warmth while her husband Jim is away fighting. But everything changes...

Discover a BRAND NEW emotional, escapist read from Patricia Wilson that will grip readers of Lucinda Riley and Emma Cowell. On the eve of her wedding, Sylvia receives a mysterious gift: a handcrafted quilt from relatives she has never met. But this is no ordinary heirloom. Each square tells the...

Germany, 1934: Anna's wedding night turns chilling as her husband reveals his devotion to Hitler. Six years later, Anna finds herself in war-torn Warsaw, running a spy network behind the façade of a café for enemy soldiers. Haunted by memories of her Nazi husband, she's drawn to the Polish resistance—and to Mateusz, a kind doctor who offers hope and warmth in the darkness.

A forgotten mansion. A wartime secret. What lies behind the door of the Cornish house? Cornwall, 1944: As her beloved brother fights the Nazis in Europe, Mary Trewallis works tirelessly on the makeshift hospital wards for injured servicemen that have taken over her family's grand ancestral home...

In 1942, the Nazis came for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos, the eleven-year-old daughter ran to the only person she could trust, her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, secretly a French Resistance operative. Andrée took her in, risking everything. But the authorities were closing in, and soon Andrée and the girl were caught in a desperate race to stay alive. Andrée was denounced, arrested, tortured and sent to the hell of Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the emotionally gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling historical fiction and family saga author. Liverpool, 1919. The Great War is over, but Polly Caveney’s nightmare is only just beginning. And when a shocking discovery forces her to flee...

The second instalment in the monumental BOMB LIGHT series – a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons. From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon...

The heart-warming winter saga of friendship and resilience from the author of The Bomb Girls Nottingham, 1942 As winter approaches, for the women at the Bell Works Factory it’s business as usual. When German refugee Ella arrives, she is met with distrust. Can she show her loyalty by getting...

The second book in the Royal Maids series that sees a young woman swap a Welsh mining town for Buckingham Palace! Rosa Edwards is finally settling in her role as a Royal Maid - but are things as rosy as they seem with her new sweetheart? December 1944. Royal Maid Rosa Edwards is finally settled...

Friedchen und Paula lernen sich 1932 kennen und »verfreunden« sich auf den ersten Blick. Zwei junge Frauen voller Lebenshunger, voller Hoffnungen und großer Träume. Ihre Freundschaft wird für immer halten. Und wie nebenbei verliebt sich Friedchen in Paulas charmanten Cousin Max. Doch dann kommt Hitler an die Macht – und Paula und Max sind Juden. Katharina Höftmann nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch ein Jahrhundert, über den Ozean und all die Erschütterungen hinweg, die bis heute nachwirken.

The Farther Shore is a sweeping novel about fathers and sons, memory and race, and the dangerous fictions that shape us—inspired by the true story of Eugene Marais, one of history’s most extraordinary and forgotten minds. Southern Africa, 1890s. Eugene Marais is a brilliant naturalist and...

'Absorbing, compelling and completely unputdownable, every Lulu Taylor novel grips you to the very end' LISA JEWELL Germany, 1932: On their honeymoon, William and Dinah Conway cross paths with Winston Churchill and witness a meeting that almost changed history. Back in London, as the threat of...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times. In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris. In the chaos...

From a poetic new voice in historical fiction comes a story of resistance, community, and survival set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Austrian Alps and the heartbreaking onset of World War II. Growing up on a farm, high among the flowering slopes of Carinthia, Mitzi Hausler has never...

A thrilling, long-lost British novel—never before published in the U.S.—that warned of Hitler's rise through the story of an ordinary German family during six fateful months in 1933; it has been hailed as "a surprise breakout success" and "a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper" in the UK. The Klugers...

Spanning the ballrooms of Pasadena and the sunlit gardens of Altadena, a new novel of love and sacrifice from the internationally bestselling author of The Light Over London and The Last Garden in England. 1960: Frustrated reporter Theresa Johnson’s life changes when she receives a phone call...