george v, 1910-1936

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george v, 1910-1936

Wake

a novel
2014
Centering around the burial of the Unknown Warrior in Great Britain in 1920, the story follows the lives of three women, Hettie, who is attracted to a man with hidden troubles, Evelyn, who is dealing with her brother who has not been the same after the war, and Ada, who meets a young veteran who knew her dead son.

The foreshadowing

2005
Sasha Fox has the gift of being able to see the future, but as World War I approaches she is unsure how she can use her power to save her brothers and change their destiny.

The heir

2007
In the aftermath of World War I, new company head Edward Deravenel struggles between his loyal brother Richard and treacherous brother George while navigating the brutal politics of inheritance.

Parade's end

1992
Reprint of a 1920's tetralogy which tells the story of Christopher Tietjens, a good man who is ruined by the machinations of a jealous and lying wife.

All quiet on the home front

an oral history of life in Britain during the First World War
2003

The foreshadowing

2006
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

Distant waves

a novel of the Titanic
2009
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

Private Peaceful

2004
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.

A pale horse

2008
Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the mysterious death of a man in an English village and soon begins to tie the murder to a missing man who worked on a secret mission during World War I and whom the British War Office wants found.

Listening for lions

2006
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

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