Fiction
The books behind the blog
Four novels and a history, each set among the real events of the Second World War.
Cliveden and the Seeds of Appeasement
- History World War Two
- November 27, 2025
- 7 mins
How a grand Thames-side country house helped shape Britain’s policy of appeasement in the 1930s — and how those events echo through my fiction.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil
Crime in the London Blitz
- History World War Two
- July 6, 2025
- 5 mins
A historical overview of criminal activity in wartime London, from looters to traitors.
Read the novel: Two Families at War
Two Families at War
- History World War Two
- January 9, 2026
- 3 mins
The story behind my Blitz crime novel, from German Jewish refugees to a North London crime family, and the research that shaped the book.
Read the novel: Two Families at War