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When Claudette Bourvil is recruited to the French Resistance the last thing she expects is that she will be sent to work in the heart of Paris to spy on senior Nazi officers. Claudette learns how to survive in a city ravaged by war, where the citizens are murdered on the whim of the occupying force....

Upon A Wheel of Fire is a major literary novel set against the end of the First World War, the inter-war years, and the start of the Second World War. The narrative is the life of Yves Beauchamp, told as he lies dying in a Vancouver hospice. From his education at a brutal British public school, the...

It is May 1964. Devastated by the recent death of his small son, James Butland joins a tour of the 1940 battlefields in France where he served as an 18-year-old in the defence of Calais. There he reviews his own life, the conflicts of growing up in the interwar years and the approach of war in 1939....

**A collection of stories drawn from the author’s long and eventful life (born in 1920). ** **Many are based on the author’s personal experience of life in Central Europe after the First World War. ** **The writing has a sense of mystery and fantasy, but always laced with a wry...

You can’t ignore the shadows of war, Tom Jordan told anyone who would listen, though few wanted to hear it; and why should they? Sitting in Tarwids Russian Bar on Lexington Avenue that evening the world seemed perfect. They drank a toast to the bear propped up in the corner, a champagne glass held...

Silver Cross recipient, Mike Borlace is considered to be one of the most experienced combat helicopter pilots of recent times. Now he collates his experiences in this compelling wartime memoir set against the backdrop of the civil war fought in Rhodesia during the 1970s. Helicopters were a...

Anna is just seventeen when the Gestapo snatches her from her native village in Poland. She forms part of a group of young people forced into slave labour at a remote farm in Austria, under the ever-watchful eye of their ‘owner’, the despotic Herr Holtzman. For five long years, Anna and her friends...

They say power corrupts; and those who want it get it by exposing those who have it. It’s a dog eat dog world – and George Valentine is its middleman. George Valentine’s Retirement Plan is a quirky, fictional look at the world of political scandal as seen by those that dig up the dirt. It features...

500 Cryptic Clues is the perfect book for all crossword solvers and puzzle lovers. June Scott has compiled lists of cryptic clues (usually only found in crossword grids) and challenges her readers to solve them. With its unique list style format, and thematically grouped clues, 500 Cryptic Clues will...

Double Standards travels 25 years back to explore the story of a bank, with roots in the Middle East, that rose to prominence and became the fastest-growing bank in the world. It was called the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, known as BCCI, and became the 4th largest bank in the world...

Many plays, poems, novels and film scripts have been written about the life of Jesus, yet none of them has focused in any great depth on what is perhaps the most spiritually dramatic period of all: his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. This work seeks to address this omission by exploring, at length,...

Mystery City is the sequel to Treasure Trove and is the second book in the Whitborough novel series. Mystery City is a light-hearted story with many threads, a large cast of people, two mischievous dogs and a rhino with depression. It combines comedy with tragedy, as well as mystery and chaos, to...

In unfolding the backstory of the Bard’s life and working through the voices of 22 lawyers from Burns’s era, Allan Nicolson subtly unravels a tale at once familiar and new – even startling at times. Blending Burns’s verse, correspondence and law reports of the time, Nicolson has been able...

The Devil Gets Lonely Too is the debut collection of poetry by Thomas R. Langton. Containing a wide range of themes, the book offers everything from hope to despair in an exploration of the darker side of life. Using a colloquial style, Thomas writes a succinct collection with poems about happiness,...