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Publishing 26 March, 2026

This book continues the story of Jacques and Mathilde, whom we first met in The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris, but it can be read as a stand-alone title.

Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance...

Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the City of Light. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of hope: his beloved bookshop, La Page Cachée.

But when a young woman and her child knock on his door one night and beg for refuge, he knows his...

Berlin, 1933 The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya.

She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to Fascism - and the usually law-abiding Freya is forced to make a choice: continue being a bystander, or put her...

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations…

Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, where the young princesses are staying during the war. When she learns that Windsor is compromised and the royal family are threatened, Sophie...

The world is at war. And time is running out…

London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, one of the clockmakers who keep Big Ben chiming.

When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him. Her search will lead her into far...