A gripping story of loss and love, of hatred and passion, and of horror and hope, set in Spain’s most evocative city against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. Ramon, a young man who makes a stand against the old order, must flee rural Andalusia and disappear into the apparent safety of Seville. In the city’s Triana district, Beatriz, a dancer, faces a heart rending choice. And in northern Morocco, Izil, a young Berber reluctantly joins Franco’s invasion army to save his family from hunger.
When a wealthy landowner becomes a key figure in Seville's oppressive government he seeks revenge, bringing despair. It seems all hope is lost until many years later a young woman discovers a shocking secret.
Immerse yourself in vibrant ‘Sevilla’ where the shadows of the past are around every corner.
A gripping story of love, espionage, and sacrifice set against the backdrop of America’s anti-war movement. Visiting Nazi Germany in the 1930s, New Yorker, Orla von Hertzberg, sees a country which appears to live up to the claims of her German relatives. Back in the USA, she finds herself harboring a secret that makes her vulnerable to blackmail, so she is relieved when her husband is posted to Berlin. Discovering the harsh reality of the regime, Orla wants to leave. However, the secret from her past will force her to undertake a life-threatening task to try and save not just herself but also her son.
Though the Civil War has now ended, Mosa is confronted by new challenges and old adversaries who are determined to try and take what she has. While some hope to build a new South, the old South refuses to die.
Her husband becoming a politician seems to offer a new dawn. However, his election to office has unexpected consequences.
Will Mosa lose everything or find a way through?
With lives in danger, she makes a life-changing decision, but will she and her family ever find real safety and true freedom?
A saga of struggle, betrayal, loss and the power of family and friendship.
The gripping sequel to The Throwback.
A heart-wrenching World War 2 saga. Growing up in 1930s Germany two boys, one Catholic and one Jewish, become close friends. After Hitler seizes power, their lives are forever changed. When war comes, will they help each other during their darkest hours, or will secrets from their teenage years make them enemies?
From the idyllic surroundings of the Bavarian Alps to the vastness of Russia and the beauty of Lake Maggiore in Italy, a story of families torn apart by war and its aftermath, but also a novel about the resilience of the human spirit and the power of love.
A Man Called Ove meets Thelma and Louise. Dull and predictable retiree, Frank, gets more adventure than he bargained for when he sets off across 1980s Europe hoping to shake up his mundane life.
In East Germany, he finds getting in much easier than getting out. In France, Frank meets the exotic Delphine who persuades him to cast a lifetime of caution to the wind. He's having the time of his life on the Cote d'Azur until things get complicated and the two of them find their lives in danger.
Crossing into Italy, Frank learns of Delphine’s past and seeks to help her. But falling in love with Delphine and Italy brings unexpected consequence
A baby’s birth to George Elwood’s wife on their South Carolina plantation threatens to cause a scandal, but the funeral of mother and child seems to ensure the truth will never be known.
Years later Elwood's son, Thomas, is rescued from disaster by a slave, Mosa. Helping her in return, he discovers the secrets of his family which set him on a collision course with his father and the law.
Mosa makes it North to freedom but even in New York, she finds her life is threatened.
Receiving unexpected news, she risks her life to return South during the height of the Civil War. She hopes to wait it out in relative safety away from any population center, but the war finds her and threatens to destroy those she cares about.
A family saga of hatred, revenge, forbidden love, overcoming hardship and helping others from the author of Bound Bayou. For fans of books such as Yellow Crocus and Sister of Mine.
What will happen when AI makes humans redundant? In 2045 those who lost their jobs to robots are taken care of in resorts where life is an endless vacation. For those in work the American dream has never been better. But is all quite as it seems?
Having suffered in the Time of Troubles, Justin Dempsey, a robotics engineer, is a huge fan of the new order.
Following an unexpected turn of events, he becomes a runaway. Hunted and captured, he begins to discover the reality of this brave new world.
Teaming up with others, he plans an escape so they can expose the truth. Their adversary is the most powerful governmental machine in the history of man which is working towards a final solution.
Will Justin succeed and, if he does, will anyone believe him?
Sent to Venice on a mission against the Nazis, a soldier finds his life unexpectedly altered when he saves a young woman at the end of the Second World War.
When many years later the truth of the past is finally revealed, Glen Butler feels deceived. His reaction to events betrays the one he loves most, his daughter.
Returning to the city to try and find her, Glen discovers she has a secret of her own, presenting him with a terrible dilemma.
Set in Italy and England from the 1940s to the 1970s, a novel about the cost of keeping secrets.
