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Books

David Lowther has written four novels and one work of history. Each novel follows fictional characters through real events in Britain before and during the Second World War, and real people of the time appear in all of them.

Choose a book by the period or subject that interests you, or start with the history articles below, which tell the stories behind the books.

Novels

Cover of The Blue Pencil by David Lowther, showing Big Ben in blue on a cream background

The Blue Pencil

Historical thriller · Fleet Street, Cliveden and Nazi Germany, 1936 to 1939

Cover of Two Families at War by David Lowther: three children sitting among bomb rubble

Two Families at War

Historical thriller · North London and the Isle of Man, 1939 to December 1940

Cover of The Summer of ’39 by David Lowther, showing a Nazi banner outside a white building

The Summer of ’39

Historical thriller · Britain and Berlin, 1939

Cover of Ordinary Heroes by David Lowther: a young woman in a white dress walking beside a soldier

Ordinary Heroes

Second World War novel · London during the Blitz, internment in Britain and wartime Sicily

Non-fiction

Cover of Liberating Belsen: Remembering the Soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry by David Lowther

Liberating Belsen

History · Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, April 1945

The history behind the books

David writes a monthly article about the Second World War. These articles explore the real events behind each book.

Where to buy

The Blue Pencil, Two Families at War, The Summer of ’39 and Liberating Belsen are published by Sacristy Press and are also available from Amazon. Ordinary Heroes is available from Amazon in paperback and ebook.