Books
Murders in the Dark
The Astonishing True Story of the 1942 London Blackout Murders
A city plunged into utter darkness for fourteen hours at a time. An erratic and desperately charming RAF man with an overactive imagination and a penchant for lying. A tense and furious geopolitical background as the world reels from the effects of warfare. This is the world in which Gordon Cummins was hunted down, tried and convicted of the crimes of the Blackout Ripper, a serial killer who murdered four women in February 1942. But was he guilty?
Murders in the Dark is a thrilling, forensic re-examination of one of the most notorious and brutal criminal cases London has ever been witness to. Gordon Cummins wouldn't be convicted today - prompting questions about the nature of justice, the changing elements of forensic investigations, and how preconceived notions of class and wealth can lead to often-fatal miscarriages of the law.
January 2027
Churchill's Darkest Hour and the British Attack on the French Navy
Summer, 1940. Winston Churchill watches in horror as France falls to the Germans in just six weeks, completing the Nazi conquest of mainland Europe. He faces an urgent question: what will happen to the mighty French Navy? Under Hitler's control it presents a major threat, and could make the German advance unstoppable.
With the Nazis closing in, Churchill orders Operation Catapult. By the end of one of the most agonising but necessary military operations of the war, the British will have destroyed a large part of the French Navy and nearly 1,300 French sailors will be dead.
A Hateful Decision
June 2026
The remarkable true story of the women who defied the Nazis and saved 15,000 lives.
October, 1938. Germany is poised to take over part of Czechoslovakia and thousands of terrified refugees have fled to Prague. A mix of Jews and political opponents of the Nazis, they will be killed if they do not leave the country.
Doreen Warriner, a British academic studying in Prague, decides she must help. She rallies a group of women and they begin an underground evacuation operation of such astonishing efficiency that over the next ten months they help 15,000 people escape the Nazis and are only forced to stop when World War II breaks out in September 1939.
Angels of Prague
October 2025
The breathtaking biography of one of Britain's most celebrated humanitarians.
When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of the most remarkable rescue missions of the century. The British Oskar Schindler tells the story of this remarkable man's life and those around him who helped him to achieve all he did.
The British Oskar Schindler
November 2023
Ian Fleming's Inspiration
The unique bestselling biography of the James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional characters in history. What most people don’t know is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - Commander Ian Fleming. In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them.
The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration.