Diney Costeloe: 15 books

From bestselling author Diney Costeloe, a young woman fights to save a treasured war memorial and uncovers a tragic story that reverberates from World War I to the present day. 'This is our secret, pet. You mustn't tell anyone about us planting this tree for dad. It's our secret.' 1921. In...

A collection of three novels by global bestselling author Diney Costeloe: THE RUNAWAY FAMILY. A mother's struggle to protect her family and escape Nazi persecution in World War Two Germany. THE SISTERS OF ST CROIX. A gripping story of love, death and danger in Nazi-occupied...

THE RUNAWAY FAMILY was previously published as EVIL ON THE WIND. From bestselling author Diney Costeloe, a gritty drama about a mother's struggle to protect her family and escape Nazi persecution in World War Two Germany. Germany 1937: Fear and betrayal stalk the streets. People disappear....

‘De verloren kinderen’ van Diney Costeloe (The Throwaway Children) is het ontroerende en aangrijpende verhaal van kinderen die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Australië werden vervoerd. Engeland, 1948. Rita en Rosie Stevens zijn pas negen en vijf jaar oud als hun moeder Mavis, een oorlogsweduwe,...

A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph...

An unputdownable drama from the bestselling author of The Girl With No Name. Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and now feels settled in her adopted home after arriving from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war. Meanwhile,...

A new emotional and gritty drama from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. After her mother's death, twenty-year-old Sophie Ross is left orphaned, with only her erstwhile nursemaid and faithful friend, Hannah for company. Penniless and little chance of an income, she looks for...

THE NEW NEIGHBOURS was previously published as DARTMOUTH CIRCLE. A gripping contemporary drama from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. When one of the houses in an exclusive cul-de-sac is sold to students, dramas begin to unfold and secrets long hidden come to the surface. Local...

Heart-stopping and gripping, this classic Diney Costeloe story shows the courage of one family in the face of great danger. Nineteenth-century Paris is in flames, houses ransacked, streets barricaded. Most people are fleeing the ravaged city, but the St Clair family have made a fateful decision...

Diney Costeloe verovert lezersharten over de hele wereld. Haar nieuwe roman ‘Het meisje zonder naam’ (‘The Girl With No Name’) is net als de wereldhit ‘De verloren kinderen’ (‘The Throwaway Children’) een aangrijpend relaas, gebaseerd op historische feiten. Lisa Becker is 13 als...

‘Familie op de vlucht’ is opnieuw een hartverscheurend verhaal van Diney Costeloe, de bestsellerauteur van ‘De verloren kinderen’ en ‘Het meisje zonder naam’. Duitsland, 1937. Naarmate de nazi’s het land verder in hun greep krijgen, wordt Joden het leven steeds moeilijker gemaakt....

A gripping story of love, death and danger in Nazi-occupied France from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty finds out her father is not the man who raised her, she is both shocked and intrigued. Determined to find out more about her new family, she...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN. A man murders his wife and goes on the run. In the most dangerous decision of her life, a lonely young mother takes pity on him and offers him refuge. The man is Jimmy Randall, who, in The Throwaway Children, murders Rita and Rosie's...

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has...