The latest in my WW2 series of books, The Midwifes Child, is out today and getting stellar reviews. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed it or bought a copy so far – we had a huge number of preorders which is wonderful. If you don’t have a copy yet, you...
This is the 3rd book in the Resistance Series, but can be read as a standalone. I loved all of these books. The first one was The Silence Before Dawn, followed by Paris at First Light and now this one The Midwife’s Child. Auschwitz in 1945-Maggie is in Auschwitz...
I had long been thinking of writing a spy series set in the Cold War, partly because my father, who died when I was three, was a spy during that time. That began to change during the pandemic when I saw ordinary people doing so many extraordinary things above and...
These newly-weds have dressed up for their wedding photo but they’re not smiling… And for good reason: their union was sealed at Auschwitz – the only wedding known to have taken place in the death camp. Rudolf Friemel, an Austrian communist who resisted...
Mala Zimetbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau, was born on January 26, 1918, in Brzesko, Poland In 1928, when she was ten years old, her family emigrated from Poland to Belgium, where they settled in Antwerp. Mala,...
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