Product Description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini’s Italy.Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country’s Fascist leaders...read more

Product Description: The new novel from the author of The Russian Concubine and Shadows on the NileThe Bahamas, 1943. Hoping to escape her turbulent past, twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt has fled to Nassau. But the world is at war, and one night the peaceful life she has created for herself is shattered when she discovers a man dying in an alleyway…Ella Stanford is married to a powerful diplomat who’s been appointed to keep the Duke of Windsor far from his Nazi friends in Germany...read more

Product Description: Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd - and of Anna?s fervent love for a passionate revolutionary, Vasily...read more

Product Description: The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily...read more

Living in exile with her mother in turbulent 1928 China, young Lydia Ivanova, who had fled Russia after the murder of her father by the Bolsheviks, falls in love with Chang An Lo, a young freedom fighter, but their love is threatened by the violence and danger that surrounds them and by the arrival of Chiang Kai Shek and his troops, whose goal is to destroy revolutionaries like Chang. A first novel. Original.

Malaya, 1941. As the glamourous wife of a plantation owner, Connie Hadley's life appears pampered and comfortable. But she is hiding devastating secrets that could destroy her marriage. Life is changed for ever on the day of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. As Japanese aircraft attack the town of Palur, Connie takes the decision to flee to Singapore on the family's boat, The White Pearl. She sails with her husband and son, three friends and the enigmatic boat dealer Fitzpayne, who is the only one who can navigate the islands of the South China Sea. In desperation, short of food and constantly in danger; tensions arise on the yacht and anger casues deadly divisions between friends...