WW2 Fiction

  • New Release from Betty Walker

    WARTIME WITH THE CORNISH GIRLS (Avon Books UK) 1941. The Blitz rages over London. And even in Cornwall, the war is being fought…. When Violet loses her sister in the Blitz, she must take her nieces to safety in Cornwall. On the coast, she meets carefree chorus girl Eva, who is also running from the…

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  • Going to the Flicks in 1941

    Like most young people in the forties, my heroine, Sarah Gillespie, in Her Secret War, is obsessed with cinema and spends all of her hard-earned, but meagre wages, on film tickets and cinema magazines such as Picturegoer Weekly. The world she sees on the silver screen is very different to her life and feeds her…

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  • New Release from Daisy Wood

    Today, I am delighted to feature the new release from Daisy Wood, The Clockmaker’s Wife. What’s more, I can highly recommend this WW2 story as I read the book recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Clockmaker’s Wife ‘A ticking time-bomb of intrigue, wrapped around stark but rich descriptions of the Blitz. An unforgettable war-time debut.’…

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  • It is often the children who are most affected by war and WW2 was no exception. A poignant example of the terror experienced by a child is a quote from a young girl who survived the Southampton Blitzkrieg. “There must have been some sort of warning before the sirens and when the barrage balloons went…

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