Small, dark and intense, Simon grows up aware that there is something different about him, something that causes late-night quarrels and sometimes tears. With the rise of Hitler in Germany and the coming of war to Sweden's neighbours, the tensions increase. Befriending a young Jew, Isak, who is quickly taken under his mother's wing, enriches Simon's life, but makes it more difficult too - for Isak seems to fit in much better at home than Simon does himself. With the war's end comes the day that Simon, no longer a child, must be told the reason for his affinity for the lake and its surrounding oak trees; for the strange dreams of an old man beneath the waves; for his dark good looks and uncanny musical ability

His masterly account of a cruel flight from invasion.
Paterson, manager of a small rice mill, organizes the evacuation of a small English community when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. The rest of the party take along their prejudices, their pettiness and their squabbles, aand a small enclave of English insularity moves north through Burma.
Swiftly and inevitably the journey becomes a tragic working out of tension and insoluble conflict.

Can love survive the dangers of occupied France?

Pearl Louis Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets - about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate intervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before she flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending on who is telling the tale....... Thus begins a story that takes us back to Shanghai in the 1920s, through WWII, and the harrowing events that lead to Winnie's arrval in America in 1949.

An intensely gripping thriller set in wartime France in the spring of 1940 as the BEF faces a massive German blitzkrieg. Scouting ahead of the main force, a British Matilda tank - affectionately named 'Bert' by its four-man crew - is attacked by dive bombers and the railway tunnel that provides a welcome refuge becomes a death trap when the bombing seals the entrance. The crew dig desperately to regain their freedom only to find, when they emerge two days later, that they are some forty miles behind the German advance....

In 1944, in war-torn Europe, a fifteen year old boy watches as his village his razed to the ground. From his hiding place high in a tree, he also witnesses the brutal murder of his childhood sweetheart by a soldier not much older than himself. Decades later, his terrible memories are revived when, by chance, he recognizes the soldier. From that moment, he devotes himself to destroying his enemy, by stealth and from afar. Until one fateful early summer morning in Oxford, the two men once again come face to face....then seemingly disappear without a trace. As young policewoman Juliet Furbo frantically searches for the missing men, she begins to uncover the disturbing connection between them.

Fifty-five years after the end of World War Two, Tetsuo Kamata is a wealthy businessman, but he was once an interrogator in a Japanese Prisoner of war camp. One of his victims, Peregrine Harrison, recognizes him. Harrison never got over his maltreatment at Kamata's hands and has dreamed of killing him ever since. Now he has his chance. But if Kamata dies, so do the livelihoods of hundreds of car factory workers. MI6 officer Sam Packer is diverted from his hunt for an ex-SAS drug trader in Thailand and given the order to stop Harrison. The search takes him deep into Harrison's past and to the poppy fields of The Golden Triangle. To save Kamata from execution, Packer must penetrate an alien and hostile world, a quest which brings him face to face with the very drug lords who have sworn to kill him.

Sent to America during wartime to stay with 'Aunt' Bird, young Fanny Clegg finds herself in an unsettling world of sophistication and luxury. Bird's daughter, Pepper, seems friendly enough, but her son Jay is openly hostile. And, as fanny soon discovers, he is not the only one.

France in the fateful summer of 1940. A retired solicitor on holiday in the Jura mountains is persuaded to escort two English children home to safety. As the Nazi war machine thunders towards the Channel, he takes five more waifs and strays under his wing, carrying them with him on his extraordinary odyssey across a France crumbling in abject defeat.....

In the brutal chaos of the Second World War, three people find their lives inextricably interwoven in a web of courage, betrayal and love. Julie Lescaux, the young Englishwoman caught up in one of the most dangerous operations of the French Resistance; Paul Vasson, vicious Paris pimp turned Nazi collaborator; David Freymann, German scientist caught up in unimaginable horror, destined to lose everything except his faith in his own discovery.