Royalblue Ltd: 5 books

1937. Laden with bullion being repatriated from Britains Asian colonies, Empress Airways flying boat Cornucopia succumbs to engine failure, finally ditching in a storm-racked Bay of Bengal. Its cargo is vital for financing Englands crucial military expansion in the face of Hitlers aggressive European...

1938. Their ménage a trios splits. Young, naïve and unquestionably in love, the couple are persuaded to work for Englands growing Secret Service, recruited just hours before they compete in Italys most famous motor race: the 1000 mile Mille Miglia. Operating as couriers, under the guise of race entrants,...

1947. Demobbed, Michael Kelly bids at auction for ex-military aeroplanes for Empress Airways. With government contracts they begin regular flights to remaining parts of the Empire. Empress takes part in the Berlin Airlift: the Soviets create difficulties for the streams of aircraft flying to the besieged...

1941. Britain faces catastrophe. Vital aircraft from America are flown across a forbidding N. Atlantic in winter, saving time into action. But few have crossed its cruel wastes before the war broke out. At home women volunteers deliver aircraft all types from fighter to four-engine bomber from Britains...

1990s. A farcical and near calamitous start to a relationship between landlord Simon Endersleigh and his talented and very attractive actress tenant: Michelle, leads to a distinctly more sinister turn of events as an honest Russian oligarch seeks the Citys help in repatriating and investing his huge...