Books by Caroline Harvey

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems.

When Lila Cunningham moved to Malta, she glimpsed a chance of a life she had dreamed of. But then, Malta became the focus of Hitler's attention just as Lila became the focus of attention of three different men. As Lila learns to live with privation and fear, she slowly realises the value of true love in all its forms.

In 1899, the lives of many young men are threatened in the bloody battles of the Boer War. Sent down from university, Matthew Paget enlists to go to South Africa as a trooper. He goes in search of adventure, only to find himself caught up in the turmoil of this beautiful but tragically divided country - and in love with a girl on the enemy side.