The Paris Seamstress – review

1940: Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine and a dream: to have her own atelier.

A Plague on Mr Pepys – review

The Great Plague has London in its grip. As the summer heat rises, red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death.

Villa of Secrets – review

This is a dual time period story set on the island of Rhodes, partly in the present day and partly in WWII during the Nazi occupation of the island.