Jim Ring Livres

Interregnum offers an alternative history of the country's--and Winston Churchill's--finest hour. 1946. Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany. All seems lost--until the February Rising sees off Hitler. The Fuhrer's death triggers a struggle for power among the Nazis, revolt across the Occupied Continent, and schism in the Oval Office in Washington. Caught in this maelstrom are the teenage princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. For Churchill, what price the lives of the two women, first and second in line to the throne, weighed against the threat of an atom bomb poised to destroy New York? There's a Tolstoyan cast including the princesses themselves, their uncle Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, President Roosevelt, the Kennedy family and sundry Air Chief Marshals, Field Marshals and First Sea Lords. As to the plot, this triple-decked thriller, detective story and literary Ludo keeps its readers guessing until the very last word.

When BOAC Flight 480 disappears from the radar screens over the Mediterranean, passengers and crew are soon posted missing. Three months later what seems to be the same aircraft reappears and lands on an Ionian holiday island. Gathered there are the world's media, agog to discover what has happened to the Boeing. There are, though, more questions than answers from the captain and crew of the vanished flight; and the passengers are more interested in getting their money back from BOAC than explaining where they have been. Join Mrs Tugendhat, SiSi, Mr Tulkinghorn, 'Senator' Welles, Boris, Mr Mao and Alexa the ginger cat to find out what really did happen to Flight 480, where the missing passengers have been, how they unearthed the low door in the wall that leads to the undiscovered country - and how they found their way back again. If any man thinks he can build and lead a world and resolves its problems he has yet to meet the stupendous force that is Mrs Tugendhat. Deliciously illustrated by breakout artist Decca Faire: it's a comedy, a beach read, a shiningly clever game of a book, a satire, an exuberant piece of magic realism - take your pick. And strap in for the ride.