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  • The Black Maria
    Rupert Colley
    When love becomes your greatest enemyMoscow, 1935. Stalin is in power. People live in constant fear – fear of each other, fear of being denounced, and fear of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Ordinary citizens live behind a mask – a public face that enables them to toe the Party line and conceal their true feelings and personal thoughts. One such citizen is thirty-year-old Mar...
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  • The White Venus
    Rupert Colley
    When the ties of loyalty are severed, whom do you trust?World War Two. It is June 1940. France has surrendered and the Nazi German occupation begins. A small village in northern France awaits the arrival of a garrison of conquering Germans. To their dismay, 16-year-old Pierre and his parents, Georges and Sandrine, are forced to accommodate a German major, Major Hurtzberger. He ...
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  • Anastasia
    Rupert Colley
    Sometimes the simplest of choices can have the most devastating of consequences. Sometimes falling in love can be a curse.Sometimes being the hard man is the hardest job.Hungary, 1949. George, Eva and Zoltan. Three people trying to live by the rules within a system that demands total obedience.George, a rising star of Hungarian football, is told to throw a game. Faced with an i...
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    14,88 €

  • Monika
    Rupert Colley
    Fear on the streets. Death on every corner. But the real enemy is the brother at his side.Short, heart-wrenching historical fiction on a large canvas from the founder of History In An Hour.  Monika is a story of jealousy, sibling rivalry and betrayal, and a desperate bid for freedom, set against a backdrop of Nazi oppression and war.  1936 - Exiled by the Nazi regime for their ...
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    10,43 €

  • The Red Oak
    Rupert Colley
    The past is always with us; it’s just that sometimes we don’t see it.Summer 2004. Tom Searight can’t relate to his 14-year-old daughter, Charlotte, or his cantankerous old father, Robert. But his life really disintegrates when he discovers his wife of 15 years, Julie, is having an affair with Charlotte’s favourite teacher.A chance letter from France takes Tom on a journey to le...
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    14,22 €

  • The Unforgiving Sea
    Rupert Colley
    Ten men adrift on a lifeboat. Only one will live to tell the tale.The sequel to This Time Tomorrow.June 1944, World War Two: a convoy ship is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. Most on board are killed but ten sailors manage to clamber aboard a lifeboat. Robert Searight emerges as the sole survivor. Traumatized by the experience, he returns to his English village to recuper...
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    15,55 €

  • The Woman on the Train
    Rupert Colley
    Someone saves your life. How far will you go to repay the debt?A historical fiction novella.World War Two, summer, 1942, Nazi-occupied France. A nervous young man sits on a train; his simple mission – to deliver a message on behalf of the resistance. The Germans ask for his papers and his nerves give way. An older woman, sitting opposite, intervenes and rescues him from the clu...
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    12,10 €

  • This Time Tomorrow
    Rupert Colley
    Two brothers. One woman. A nation at war.A compelling story of war, brotherly love, romance and betrayal during World War One. Vast in scope and intimate in the portrayal of three lives swept along by circumstances, 'This Time Tomorrow' moves from the drawing rooms of Edwardian London to the trenches of the Western Front and to the uncertainty of post-war Britain. 1915....
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    15,41 €