‘A woman can get more information about German supply lines and replacements than a man with a knife to a soldier’s throat...’

The League of Lonely War Women by Andie Newton

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The League of Lonely War Women

‘A woman can get more information about German supply lines and replacements than a man with a knife to a soldier’s throat...’

Germany, 1944

Best friends Vivien Allen and Junie Knight are part of the covert world of America’s Morale Operations branch. As members of The League of Lonely War Women, a dark propaganda campaign aimed to sow seeds of...

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The Ghost House

Occupied France, 1944

In the shadow of the ravaged battlefields of Verdun, where the scars of the First World War never healed, Vianne, struggling to hold onto her crumbling family chateau, takes in her traumatized nephew Blaise after the arrest of her sister by the Nazis.

But when Blaise says he can see eerie figures in the fog and whispers from...

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The Secret Pianist

Sisters. Traitors. Spies.

Sisters. Traitors. Spies.

When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands…

The occupation has taken much from the Cotillard sisters, and as the Germans increase their forces in the seaside town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Gabriella, Martine...

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Book Club Discussion Questions

Reading one of my books for your book club? Here are some discussion questions to get you started.

The Ghost House

  1. Vianne carries both grief and responsibility throughout the novel. How does her role as Blaise’s guardian shape her decisions? Do you see her as driven more by love, guilt, fear — or something else?
  2. Blaise is mute, yet his presence is powerful. In what ways does his silence heighten the tension of the story? How does the novel use his quiet...
From the Library with Love Podcast with Sunday Times bestseller Kate

What happened to the children stolen by the Nazis? USA Today bestselling author Andie Newton shares a heartbreaking wartime story.