Thriller: A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements Zaffre, 480 pages, hardcover €12.99; e-book £7.19
It’s 1942 and Irish-American Cambridge University history professor Tom Wilde is on a train home from London, having been seconded to America’s newly formed intelligence operation, the OSS.
A distraught young man in a military uniform addresses him by his title. He recognises the soldier as a former student, Peter Cazanove. Cazanove confesses to having betrayed his country and that a bigger betrayal has just happened. With that, Wilde is thrown headlong into an intelligence conspiracy involving the British royal family and some of the most connected and powerful men in Britain and Nazi Germany.
Trinidad authors Monique Roffey and Ingrid Persaud won Costa Book Awards for their novels
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story and
Love After Love, respectively. Adam Sherwin (
Trinidad celebrated a triumph at the Costa Book Awards with authors born on the Caribbean island winning in the Novel categories. Writer, artist and academic Ingrid Persaud won the Costa First Novel Award for
Love After Love.
‘Dark love story’
The judges said the story of Trinidadian Betty Ramdin, written in Trinidadian prose, was “teeming with life” and “full of unforgettable characters.”
Monique Roffey won the Novel Award for her seventh book,