The Codebreaker Girls – Only 99c!

 

If you’re in the USA, you’re in for a treat – The Codebreaker Girls is just 99c this month on Kindle!

Fans of Mr Wyngate, the enigmatic Man from the Ministry, will love this book as he makes his debut in our second WW2 saga, based on the intrepid codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Buy your copy now!

Can their courage and friendship keep the nation safe?

It’s 1944, and Rosie Sinclair is full of pride to be doing her bit for the war effort as a driver at Cottisbourne Park – the secret heart of Britain’s fight against Germany, where a team of brilliant and eccentric codebreakers are battling to save the country.

But when she’s given a new mission to drive Major-General ‘Bluff’ Kingsley-Flynn down to Cottisbourne, Rosie finds herself on the frontline of a new battle – to uncover a possible spy at the Park who is jeopardising their vital work, and to resist her own growing attraction to the dashing Bluff himself…

As the threat to her fellow codebreaker girls grows ever stronger, Rosie realises her country needs her more than ever. Can she save the day without losing her heart?

Bestseller – The Resistance Book Club

A huge thank you to all our lovely readers for making our brand new novel, The Resistance Book Club, a bestseller in the UK and US! If you haven’t already got your hands on this story of bravery against the odds in occupied France, and family secrets coming to light decades later, don’t miss out – get your copy now in ebook or paperback, or read on Kindle Unlimited! Audiobook out in November.

The Resistance Book Club

 We’re celebrating! It’s publication day for our latest novel, The Resistance Book Club! Available in ebook, paperback, and Kindle Unlimited. Audiobook out in November.

Every page is shared in secret… and a single book could cost a life.

France, 1941. Margot locks her bookshop door and slips into the cellar, where a circle of brave women gather by candlelight to read the books the Germans are burning. They are risking everything to share forbidden stories and fight back. But one seat is empty… Esther is missing, and as a Jewish woman, she is in terrible danger. Whatever happens, Margot has promised to take care of Esther’s baby, darling Isabelle…

Present day. Lucy gasps as she descends into the cellar beneath the bookshop she has inherited from her grandmother. Wooden chairs are arranged in a circle, as if the resistance book club members have just vanished. A candle sits on a saucer; a book lies open.

Still grieving her grandmother, Lucy was left a letter about the wartime book club hinting at a devastating secret. And one book is wrapped in yellowed newspaper, addressed in faded ink to a woman named Esther. Does it contain a clue about the fate of the tiny baby hidden by the book club? What really happened on that dark night when one of its members taken by the Nazis?

And as she uncovers the bookshop’s past, will the truth force Lucy to rethink everything she thought she knew about her own family?

Did you know…?

Cordeval isn’t a real village, but is based on the many communities along the Normandy coast who lived through the hardships of the Occupation, only to be in the firing line come D-Day. The Liste Otto was a list of books banned by the Nazi regime, which considered them anti-German. Thousands of books were officially condemned as undesirable and removed from French shelves. Whilst the Nazi book burnings didn’t take place in France, Lauterborn’s bonfire of the condemned books reflects the burnings held in Germany in the 1930s.

The tunnels that run beneath Cordeval are partly based on legends of smuggler’s tunnels hidden below many fishing villages. And they’re partly inspired by the tunnels dug into the chalk beneath the northern French town of Arras. After playing an important role during the Great War, the tunnels served as air-raid shelters during the Second World War. But, in 1945, they were closed up and forgotten for decades.

Queens That Changed the World

I'm thrilled to be making my US TV debut today in the second series of Queens That Changed the World! I'll be chatting all things Queen Charlotte on BBC Select and look out for me later in the series too, lifting the lid on Marie Antoinette and her mum, Empress Maria Theresa! The series will hit UK screens later this year.