Night Flight to Paris

By David Gilman,

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'Page-turning and gritty' DAILY MAIL. It is 1943 and for agents of the Special Operations Executive, a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris is a death sentence. So why has unlikely spy Harry Mitchell volunteered to return to the city he fled two years ago? The French capital is at war with…

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1 author picked Night Flight to Paris as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I don’t often read historical thrillers, but the WWII setting covering both the Nazi occupation of Paris and the Vichy regime drew me in. I love books that use real events as the plot background, and this era intrigues me. 

I became invested in the main character’s plight. His difficult choices made me fear not only for him but also for the mission. It’s a classic story of betrayal, and I love the complex relationships, the struggle for power and control both by the enemy and also between the resistance groups, and the overall fight for justice and freedom.

These…

The Forest Knights

By J. K. Swift,

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I love a good fight scene! It doesn’t need to be long and gruesome, but it must be visceral and make me nervous for those involved. Don’t get me wrong, I also love a good first-kiss scene but unfortunately, my past has made me more adept at recognizing and writing one over the other. I started training in martial arts at the age of nine and continued for thirty years. I don’t train much these days but I took up bowmaking a few years back and now spend a lot of time carving English longbows and First Nations’ bows. I recently also took up Chinese archery.

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The greatest underdog story of the medieval age.

A wild land too mountainous to be tamed by plows. A duke of the empire, his cunning overshadowed only by his ambitions. A young priestess of the Old Religion, together with a charismatic outlaw, sparking a rebellion from deep within the forests. And an ex-Hospitaller caught between them all.

The Forest Knights

By J. K. Swift,

What is this book about?

A druid priestess enlists the help of an ex-Hospitaller warrior and a charismatic outlaw to fight Austrian tyranny in medieval Switzerland. A subtle blend of fantasy and history, ALTDORF (Book 1) tells the events leading up to one of the greatest underdog stories of the medieval age, the Battle of MORGARTEN (Book 2).


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