World War II

An inspiring, uplifting story of love and loss, courage and adventure, from the bestselling author of The Skylark’s Secret. 1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet...

February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovana Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639108619Author Aurelie ThieleFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Crooked Lane BooksPublisher Crooked Lane Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954404267Author C�cile DesprairiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643124Author Sarah DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496745569Author Alan HladFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

The four courageous Bletchley Park girls continue to help England win World War Two at the top secret code-breaking centre where they work.The fourth Christmas of the war is approaching fast. It should be a happy time, yet life throws them challenges...

The four courageous Bletchley Park girls continue to help England win World War Two at the top secret code-breaking centre where they work.The fourth Christmas of the war is approaching fast. It should be a happy time, yet life throws them challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499481Author Michelle MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496749093Author David LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335000392Author Madeline MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mills & BoonPublisher Harlequin (UK)Weight(grams) 245g

February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovana Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied...

The four courageous Bletchley Park girls continue to help England win World War Two at the top secret code-breaking centre where they work.The fourth Christmas of the war is approaching fast. It should be a happy time, yet life throws them challenges...

Brought to you by Penguin.Hitler had two fortune tellers.One predicted his rise to power, the other aimed for his demise.Berlin, 1940: Hitler’s army is on the rise. When he requests Edith Creutzen become his personal fortune teller, she’s left no choice...

An art crime thriller for the agesAlternating between London and Paris in the 1940s, the 1960s, and the present, Watching Over You explores the provenance of a collection of paintings hidden from the plundering Nazis during World War II and the fate of...

Can the festive cheer warm her heart again?October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime, Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. Engaged to her airman sweetheart Charlie, living in the beautiful Dales village of Silverdale and gainfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639108961Author Rachel RobbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Crooked Lane BooksPublisher Crooked Lane Books

When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross,...

Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings. But, as the country rolls toward war, the attitudes...

A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war.It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the...

With their city under fire, can they find hope in each other? *** 'A captivating read, every bit as good as the others in this wonderful series' SUSANNA BAVIN, author of The Home Front Girls *** In December 1940, the Blitz has reached Sheffield,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385688826Author Maia CaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1945, twenty-five child survivors of the Holocaust, between the ages of four and fifteen, were welcomed to Sir Benjamin Drage's large country villa, Lingfield House. There they would receive the care of psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, daughter of the great...

If you were given the opportunity to disappear and start your life again, would you take it?Paris 1933. Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a...

In the darkness of war, light shines from the pages of a book… For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she’s been able to count on is the written word. The war may have taken everything from her, but the stories she cherishes provide...

The truth is waiting to be told … *** Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917045070Author Lorraine AmraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

December 1940. New Year's Eve draws closer, but crowds will not be gathering on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate. After a quiet Christmas, the whole area has just suffered London's most devastating air raid since the start of the Blitz and...

Based on the life of a very real, very incredible American icon.Alice Marble strives to have it all.Alice tirelessly works her way up to be a #1 tennis champion, all while maintaining a growing career trajectory editing the Wonder Women comic. She enjoys...

Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from the global number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley.You can’t alter destiny . . .Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each...

** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE ENEMY OF LOVE ** Italy 1943 The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take...

By Royal invitation, join us to celebrate The Royal Show!Prodigal son and loyal daughter...The Forsyth Variety Company has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to entertain Her Majesty at 1962's Royal Variety Performance.Keen to rehearse, the...

A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE “A deeply moving book.” —LEILA SLIMANI *** “A powerful exploration of family trauma.” —LAUREN ELKIN “A work of rare grace and importance.”—THE GUARDIAN In January 2003, the...

​A sophisticated and thrilling historical page-turner about love and art spanning Geneva, Rome and London - perfect for fans of Christy Lefteri and Victoria Hislop.  Three love stories told across four centuries A search for a missing masterpiece . . .  ...

1963. Hattertown, Connecticut. Leo “ Half” Napoli mourns his dead hat factory worker father while daydreaming of being the first man on the moon and thereby “ partaking of something of the infinite."" Meanwhile, he and his fellow Back Shop Boys (their...

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a village in southeastern Poland before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of...

The truth is waiting to be told … *** Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on...

If you were given the opportunity to disappear and start your life again, would you take it?Paris 1933. Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a...

Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from the global number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley.You can’t alter destiny . . .Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each...