Joe Faraday is 42. Six foot tall, loose-limbed and with a slow smile, Faraday has made it in the CID through extraordinary diligence, an unswerving commitment...
19-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard...
19-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard...
It is December 1952. A wedding is being planned in April Grove, Portsmouth, and Jess and Frank Budd want to bring together all their friends and neighbours...
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel...
The story of Thursday Tilford, born at the very end of the First World War and a Red Cross voluntary aid detachment nurse during World War II, this is...
Following on from 'Goodbye Sweetheart' and 'The Girls They Left Behind', this third novel in the author's sequence about working class family life during...
When a colleague's nephew goes missing, Detective Inspector Andy Horton is recalled from his sailing trip to France. But when the charred remains of a...
Life isn't easy for Sally and Ruth. Alone since the death of their mother both girls struggle to survive. Ruth, the eldest sister, does her best to look...
When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth's historic dockyard, the Major Crime Team is adamant it is suicide. Detective Inspector...