From reading Gabriella Saab’s brilliant debut novel The Last Checkmate, I was sure that the author would skilfully weave true historical figures and events with fiction in her new novel Daughters of Victory to create…
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The Orphan’s Mother is an all consuming, powerful and deeply moving wartime narrative. This is the second novel I have had the privilege of reading and reviewing from Marion Kummerow as last year I read…
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I absolutely love the cover of Resistance Book 1 Liberty, the first book in Eilidh McGinness’s World War II trilogy; I think it is so gritty, eye catching and unique. I was attracted to it…
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Belated Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to my first book review of 2022 in which I’m telling you about a cracker of a novel. The Postmistress of Paris is hard hitting wartime fiction. It…
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Pitched as a novel not to be missed if you have read The Tattooist of Auschwitz and if you’ve watched The Queen’s Gambit, I was desperate to read The Last Checkmate, the debut novel from…
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