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When you like thrillers set at sea during World War II: The hunt for the Peggy C.

New novel set against the backdrop of Dunkirk and the massacre at Le Paradis: The secrets we left behind by Soraya M. Lane

"The Sapphire Child " - pre World War two Northern India (now Pakistan)

Nice read situated in Malay pre, during and post WW2: The Planter's Wife by Ann Bennett

Review: The tea planter's club - the horror of an evacuation from Birma through the jungle towards India

A great old adventure novel that got digitalised "Barbary slave" by Gardner Francis Fox

WW2 Norway seen from a child's point of view: review of the novel "Occupied" by Kurt-Blorstad

Review of "In the Far Pashmina Mountains" - Raj India and the British Afghan war set in a historical novel

Review of "Occupation secret" by Mario Reading - an SS officer and a French farmgirl bond over music

Preview of "Destiny's tide" by J.D. Davies: a town disappearing beneath the waves and the disturbing life in Henry the 8's England

ARC review of "The last loyalty" by Bernadette Lyons - a kind of "Dances with wolves" feeling

Review of "The Soldier's Girl" by Sharon Maas: WWII in the Alsace

"Entangled lives" by Imran Omer, an impressive novel about Pakistan and Taliban-era Afghanistan

Free classic Four feathers: "Fear is not lack of courage. Courage is willingness to do what needs to be done regardless of fear"

A lost scroll and secrets on Crete: Review of "The last messenger"

Abelard and Héloïse? Was he not that guy who got castrated?

Three novels following a workingclass family living in or near Cordoba in the haydays of the Caliphate when Spain was an Umayad Muslim Kingdom

Review of free book "The Arabian Rose"

A great fantasy saga (2 books) "The reluctant concubine" and "The accidental sorceress"

#Free novel: Romantic adventure in Africa (Only free 30/1/17)