Results Publisher "Embla Books" in Historical Fiction

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

1944. As darkness descends over Europe, nineteen-year-old Hedy chooses hope in the face of the evil that grips the continent and stalks the streets of her quiet Swiss hometown. One night in the forest, with only the light of the moon to guide her, Hedy finds a wounded American airman. Second...

September, 1930. Fearless detective Miss Clara Vale is bound for Berlin, but this trip is all about la mode - not murder. Clara is set to walk the runway at Berlin Fashion Week, as a favour to her designer friend Juju, with her assistant Bella in tow. Elections loom in Germany, and among Juju's...

To save their lives, she must put hers on the line. Berlin, 1939 As war breaks out across Europe, Clara - a British midwife married to a German officer - finds herself an outsider in the place she has called home for nearly a decade. Dismissed from her hospital and powerless as a pregnant Jewish...

She's half the world away, but her heart remains in India. Adela dreams of a life on stage and cannot wait to take her place in the glittering society of India in the dying days of the Raj. Bold and ambitious, nothing will stand in her way - until she falls in love and life takes an unexpected...

When tragedy strikes, can she find the courage to love again? Times are hard for Rose. She and her family scrape a living but she dreams of a life beyond the grime of the industrial town. So when she catches the eye of respectable steelworker William Fawcett, it feels like her luck has changed...

Will going home to India bring Sophie the life she has always dreamed of? Sophie has never forgotten the sun-drenched valleys of India. Torn from the only home she has ever known when she is orphaned at age six, she is taken to Scotland but never loses her dream to return. So when her cousin...

A mysterious photograph. A family secret. A search for the truth. Sammy has spent her childhood torn from the lush tea gardens of Assam to a boarding school in England. The second world war is over and India has won its independence, but she fears for her family and loved ones left behind. When...

Will love and war tear apart her beloved homeland forever? Libby is delighted to leave her boarding school in England behind to return to the vibrant beauty of her homeland, and her beloved father, James. Assam is as bewitching as she remembered but India is changing. A rebellion is simmering...

From the jewel-bright valleys of India to the cold grey streets of Newcastle, can Clarissa build a new life? 1904 INDIA: Beautiful, headstrong Clarissa Belhaven can only watch on as her widowed father sinks into debt and drink, bringing ruin to their idyllic tea plantation. When he dies, she is...

A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale! 1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de...

Lives are torn apart. Lives are woven together. As war approaches... Young Jewish couple Max and Gerda are running their treasured family toyshop, but impending danger will force them to make unimaginable choices to stay alive. There are decisions to be made. Just fifteen and drafted into the SS...

Earphones Award Winner 2025 The past has never left Billy. It's just been waiting for him to come and find it... It's been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back then, his secret love for schoolfriend Conor was the only shining light that kept him going during...

She's fallen into enemy territory. Can she find a way out? Geraldine Fitz-Herbert might have grown up amidst the aristocracy and its endless matchmaking schemes, but she's never quite fit into that world. She'd much rather take to the skies, where she can truly be free. As war breaks out, Fitz...

Someone is killing fairy godmothers in Cinderella... Can Miss Clara Vale crack the case before the clock strikes twelve? 1929, December: Snow is falling, and Miss Clara Vale is wrapped up against the cold as she braves the icy streets of Newcastle in her latest investigation. When a young...

Two sisters. One promise. But will their bond survive the test of time? 1936. After their father loses their family fortune, and their mother locks herself away, sisters Grace and Clementine are left to raise themselves in a grand London house that is slowly falling apart. Each of them is...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you will go from enemies to lovers... Meet Elizabeth Bennet. Otherwise known as Eden Blake the understudy in Liz and Darcy, the musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Eden has toiled away for years as a working actress and while she's not...

Can a love like theirs stand the test of time? Ellinor lived for adventure, always travelling from one place to the next - until tragedy struck and turned her world upside down. Needing to escape, she accepts an invitation to stay with relatives at their remote Cornish farmhouse. As Ellinor...

1942, Paris: Nathalie Leroux dreams of being a famous designer, but with her beloved city under Nazi occupation, her dreams must be put on hold for survival during these dark days. When the Germans take away the person she loves most, Nathalie accepts a dangerous mission from the Resistance. One...

Murder is no occupation for a lady... or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she threw herself into a degree in chemistry, with aspirations to become a scientist in her...