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Airing in a Closed Carriage by Joseph Shearing

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First published in 1943 under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing, Marjorie Bowen’s Airing in a Closed Carriage combines historical fiction, psychological examination and crime writing. Now part of the British Library Crime Classics series, it is a quietly unsettling exploration of suspicion, cruelty and the suffocating…
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Interview: Alex Gerlis

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Over the last 15 years, Alex Gerlis has become something of a specialist when it comes to espionage novels set during World War II, and his writing is going from strength to strength. In 2024, he began an exciting new series with Every Spy a…
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Blood Vengeance by Douglas Jackson

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The third of Douglas Jackson’s Warsaw Quartet follows Blood Roses and Blood Sacrifice and sees Polish investigator Jan Kalisz taken from occupied Warsaw and dropped in to northern Scotland at the orders of Winston Churchill himself. Krystina Kowolska, resistance agent and a mionor member of…
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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

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Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…
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