Eleanor Roosevelt was the only First Lady to refuse to live in the White House. Separated from FDR, other women surrounded him. Daisy Suckley, a cousin and lover to Franklin Roosevelt, narrates the story of those presidential years, with an illuminating retelling of a seismic era. She records the friendships, the fights and the deals made in a secret sisterhood of those who influenced and assisted a disabled President in Eleanor's absence.

'A revelation. Justine Gilbert is a master storyteller.' Winner of the Historical Fiction Company's, American category, Silver Award 2022.

Events of the past can undo a lifetime of hope. Twenty years have passed since Maggie escaped the Irish Famine and settled with Jack in the North west of England. When Jack wishes to visit Ireland with their daughter, Hannah, Maggie is reluctant. She regrets the painful memories, but agrees to visit the country that once was home. Soon though the family becomes embroiled in the drama of the still troubled land and Maggie sees how history can repeat itself. Can she save her family as they stand to lose everything they've fought for?

Set in County Mayo during the Potato Famine of 1845, Maggie is a sixteen years old girl who must decide whether to stay in her homeland and face the hunger or take the offer of a place in the boat of a family who are emigrating. It is a rags to riches story and is a gripping tale.

It’s July 1943 and the world has been at war for almost four long years. One morning, young widow Emmy Penry-Jones discovers two men washed up on the beach below her house on the west coast of Cornwall. Emmy is used to rescuing washed-up sailors, the deadly Battle of the Atlantic exacting a heavy toll on shipping. But these men are not like the shipwrecked sailors she has rescued before and Emmy is soon drawn into a web of intrigue that will test both her ingenuity and her patriotism. Rocked by accusations of war crimes against a man she knows to be innocent, Emmy launches a bid to defend him, all too aware that the accusers could turn on her. But the trial marks a turning point and Emmy is drawn further into a deadly cycle of post-war retribution from which only one man can save her.

Monsieur Maurice is the manager of Le Prix d’Amour, one of the most successful cabarets in 1930s Paris. Sparkling showgirls and vibrant performers ensure that Le Prix has a devoted following and that Monsieur Le Prix’s Owner is a very rich man. But with the German invasion of 1940, Monsieur Maurice discovers that a number of his performers hide dark secrets that could see the entire company tossed into a Gestapo cell. With his ingenuity taxed to its limits, Maurice treads a fine line between the Germans, the French police and the resident informer, while dabbling in the black market and skimming profits from the occupiers. Secrets and Showgirls presents the occupation of Paris from a vastly different perspective, its colourful characters ranging from an alcoholic closet communist, sassy showgirls and a gorgeous female impersonator to a sensual dominatrice, vibrant beings who adapt, defy and finally take the fight to the invader as liberation beckons.

Escaping England after the Royalist defeat at Worcester in 1651, Adler Hayward and his friend Latimer Draye join the Fortier family bound for New Netherland. Heartbroken at leaving his home and family, Adler finds solace in the eyes of Glynneth Fortier, the wife of Etienne Fortier, who suffers from consumption. Though Adler loves Glynneth more than life itself, he is devoted to her husband, and he and Draye are protective of the Fortier family. To earn their living, Adler and Draye become woodsmen, trading with the Mohawks and sharing several near death adventures.

As they settle into their lives in New Netherland, Adler and Glynneth cannot help but wonder what destiny awaits them in their strange and challenging new world.

Endorsement by Curt Locklear, winner of the National Laramie Award 2019.
"If you yearn for a story skillfully told - if you like characters who find a home in your heart - if you enjoy historical accuracy blended with robust action, don't miss this book.

Pamela Colman Smith, newly arrived from New York to her birthplace of London, is received as an oddball in Victorian society. Her second sight helps her in her new job: illustrating tarot cards for the Golden Dawn, a newly formed occult group. But when Pamela refuses to share her creations with Aleister Crowley, a controversial magician, he issues a threat: give up the cards’ power, or he’ll harm her muses.

Two of Pamela’s idols, the actors Henry Irving and William Terriss, take her under their wing. Henry, who tutors her as the leader of the Lyceum Theatre, becomes the muse for her Magician card. William Terriss, teaching her by examples of instinct and courage, becomes the muse for her Fool card. As Pamela begins to create the tarot deck, she is almost overwhelmed by the race to possess the magical power of her cards. In order to defeat Aleister, Henry and William will have to transform into living incarnations of the Magician and the Fool—and Pamela must conjure her magic.

In 1938 Marisa Carnarvon abandons her comfortable Sydney lifestyle to become a nurse in a major London hospital. Against the backdrop of looming conflict, she moves to a Red Cross hospital in Paris, only to be caught by the German invasion of June 1940.

As the young nurse finds herself pressured to work for the fledgling resistance movement, her life is further complicated by the arrival of a new Gestapo chief who is keen to establish a friendship with her — or more if he can. Now she treads a fine line between the two, desperate not to betray the resistance while conscious that she is supposed to be neutral. Her position becomes increasingly precarious as the resistance hunts for a traitor in the organisation. Suspicion falls on one of the hospital’s doctors and he is murdered, throwing her into the firing line.

The story reaches its climax with a substantial twist featuring betrayal, murder and ultimately love as Allied forces close in and the liberation of Paris draws ever closer.

It’s 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive dancers and Western adventurers.

A sharp rise in teak prices sets off a mad rush for logging concessions, and the forests of Lanna resound to the thwack of axes and the trumpeting of elephants as the mighty trees are felled.

Enter Doctor Marion Cheek, a medical missionary and teak trader, whose exploits in this exotic realm – saving the life of the ruler’s wife, setting up a harem of local beauties and standing triumphant at the kingdom’s highest point – make him a legend in his lifetime.

Based on events in the life of the author’s sixth-great-grandmother.

In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her loved ones face starvation at Valley Forge, she refuses to sit idly by. Armed with life-sustaining supplies, Anna strikes out alone on horseback over 200 miles of rough and dangerous terrain. Despite perilous setbacks along the way, sheer determination carries her toward her destination. When she learns of a plot to overthrow General Washington, her mission becomes more important than ever. With the fate of the American Revolution in her hands and one of the conspirators hot on her trail, Anna races to deliver a message of warning to Valley Forge before it’s too late.

SS Private Max Schrader is a brutal Nazi guard at Dachau concentration camp. While he is ruthless towards the Jewish prisoners trapped behind the barbed wire, the Nazi soldier does have one soft spot: he loves animals, especially cats.

When Max finds an injured cat near the front gate of Dachau one day, he nurses the feline back to health. Max happily adopts the cat, named Faust, and comes to love his precious new pet. But it seems that Faust is searching for something: every day, the cat follows Max to Dachau and searches the concentration camp.

As Max attempts find what his pet his looking for, his worldview will be shattered…and his sins may cost him dearly.

A Cat at Dachau is a heart-wrenching short story by award-winning author Elyse Hoffman.

Ten-year-old Uriel has always been an outcast. Born mute in a Jewish village known for its choir, he escapes into old stories of his people, stories of angels and monsters. But when the fires of the Holocaust consume his village, he learns that the stories he writes in his golden notebook are terrifyingly real.

In the aftermath of the attack, Uriel is taken in by Uwe, a kind-hearted linguist forced to work for the commander of the local Nazi Police, the affably brutal Major Brandt. Uwe wants to keep Uriel safe, but Uriel can't stay hidden. The angels of his tales have come to him with a dire message: Michael, guardian angel of the Jewish people, is missing. Without their angel, the Jewish people are doomed, and Michael's angelic brethren cannot search for him in the lands corrupted by Nazi evil.

With the lives of millions at stake, Uriel must find Michael and free him from the clutches of the Angel of Death...even if that means putting Uwe in mortal danger.