Christina Koning

• Mar-1992
• / General Fiction
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Edinburgh 1977. The end of an era. The end of the postwar boom. The end of the sexual revolution. But for Saul and Catherine, postgraduate students meeting at a departmental party at the university, it seems like a beginning of sorts. Their attractio...

• Feb-2001
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Constance Reason's twilight years in the Sussex countrside are turned upside down during the summer of 1968 when her nephew Sandy suddenly turns up with his boyfriend Ray, joined by Iseult, Sandy's unwordly cousin, and his melodramatic Aunt Leonora, ...

• Apr-2010
• / Literary
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The Dark Tower is a historical novel by award-winning author Christina Koning set in South Africa in 1879. Koning brilliantly analyses a doomed love affair set against the events leading to the defeat of the British army by the Zulus at Isandhlwana....

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction
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Venezuela, 1953. The war is over and people are trying to rebuild their lives. For the privileged expat community around the Maracaibo oilfields life is still a hedonistic round of cocktail parties, salacious gossip, and illicit liaisons. At the cent...

• Jun-2011
• / Literary
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This is a story of love and astronomy; music and silence; secrets and truth-telling; of world-changing discoveries, and unrequited desire. Moving from York in the 1780s to Regency Bath, and then to Hanover in the 1840s, it concerns the lives of three...

• Oct-2013
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• Dec-2013
• / Historical Mystery
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London, 1927. An 'unreal city', full of fog, and cigarette smoke, and drifting shadows... Or that's how it seems to Frederick Rowlands, who works as a switchboard operator for a firm of City solicitors. With his sight badly damaged by shrapnel during...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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First published as Line of Sight under A. C. Koning.London, summer 1927. Frederick Rowlands, a First World War veteran who was blinded at Ypres, is working as a switchboard operator in the City when an over-heard telephone conversation draws him into...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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'With vivid characterisation and a keen ear for dialogue, Christina Koning has all the qualities of a first-class mystery writer' - DAILY MAILDublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands travels to the...

• Mar-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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First published as Game of Chance under A. C. Koning.1929. Blinded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure life for himself and his family in the countryside. But everything is about to change when an old...

• Jun-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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First published as Time of Flight under A. C. Koning.May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest - after all, he is unlikely ever to set foot in an aeroplane himself.However, a chance mee...

• Jun-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning.Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands takes on the most ch...

• Oct-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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'With vivid characterisation and a keen ear for dialogue, Christina Koning has all the qualities of a first-class mystery writer.' - DAILY MAILFirst published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning.Summer, 1937. Frederick Rowlands' peaceful holiday in C...

• Oct-2023
• / Historical Mystery
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'With vivid characterisation and a keen ear for dialogue, Christina Koning has all the qualities of a first-class mystery writer.' - DAILY MAILFirst published as End of Term under A. C. Koning.Cambridge, 1935. Frederick Rowlands, blind war veteran, i...

• Dec-2023
• / General Fiction
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Spring, 1941. The Second World War has entered a dangerous phase, with British ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and nightly bombing raids on major ports. At Bletchley Park, top secret home of the nation's code-breakers, the race is on to crack t...

• May-2025
• / General Fiction
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Oxford, 1942. Frederick Rowlands receives an urgent summons to the university city from his old friend - also a blinded war veteran - Major Ian Fraser. They are to meet Professor Duncan Challoner, Fellow of Brasenose College, now working with MI5 at ...