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Category: Historical Fiction

  • #TheOperator

    10th March 2020 It’s 1952. The switchboard operators in Wooster, Ohio, love nothing more than to eavesdrop on their neighbours’ conversations, and gossip about what they learn. Vivian Dalton is no different (despite her teenage daughter’s disapproval), and always longs to hear something scandalous. But on the night of December 15th, she wishes she hadn’t.…

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  • #TheLostLightsofStKilda

    1927: When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda, little does he realise that he has joined the last community to ever live on the beautiful, isolated island. Only three years later, St Kilda will be evacuated, the islanders near-dead from starvation. But for Fred, that summer – and the island woman, Chrissie,…

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  • #TheBeeKeeperOfAleppo

    21st Feburary 2020Featured as One to Watch for in 2019 across Sunday Express, Irish Independent, Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Independent, Woman’s Way and Culturefly “This is a novel of international significance. Courageous, provocative, haunting, it will open your eyes” In the midst of war, he found loveIn the midst of darkness, he found courageIn the midst…

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