A Scent of Lavender
A captivating tale of forbidden passion and wartime friendship from the bestselling author of THE WILLOW POOL and ONE SUMMER AT DEER’S LEAP.
Second World War fiction
The Face of Eve
As World War Two breaks over Europe, Eve Anders is already a veteran from the Spanish Civil War. But now she’s called to a very different kind of action: to come home to train for the newly-formed SOE.
Ghost MacIndoe
Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley’s ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will.
Snake
‘Stunning – the work of a powerful imagination’ Carol Shields. Snake is Kate Jennings first novel, she has written poetry and an award-winning collection of short stories.
Morocco
Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst whose sole client, a Jewish tycoon, fakes his own suicide and thereby drags Gloria into a web of intrigue, deception and betrayal.
Fugitive Pieces
This lyrical first novel tells the interweaving stories of love and loss of two men from different generations, their lives utterly transformed by war. Winner of the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 1997 Guardian Fiction Prize.
The Man Who Loved the Normandie
A gripping espionage thriller, which sees two spies locked in a psychological battle of wills in the run up to the Second World War.