John Hughes was born in Sutton Coldfield, in the English Midlands, studied music at Royal Holloway College and has lived in Surrey for most of his adult life. He has earned a living in a variety of ways - selling pianos in Harrods, playing keyboards in a tribute band, editing a magazine, recruiting IT professionals and, most recently, managing in the NHS. He has written half a dozen non-fiction books but Spitfire Spies is his first published novel.
Who doesn’t dream of finding the love of their life?Lonely, quirky Oliver Birch certainly does, and he knowswho she is. He’s adored her from afar for thirty years. But there’s a problem. Joanna is happily married to somebody else. Then, one day, out of the blue, she arrives at his apartmen...
Summer 1940 - Great Britain is in grave peril. With the ‘phoney' war turning into a very real war on the ground and in the air, Hitler's troops storm across an unprepared Europe towards the English Channel. Invasion looms. But the British have a weapon in their arsenal that may be a game changer a...
