Jeremy Dronfield Books in Order

Moving between past and present, this psychological thriller explores the secret life of Salvador Dalí. Dreamlike shifts gradually reveal concealed experiences, drawing readers into a mystery where the artist’s history and the boundaries of reality become increasingly uncertain.

A celebrated novelist and his beloved bestseller appear to have vanished from collective memory. Strange encounters, a New Year’s party and a failed writer’s nightmarish train journey unravel a mystery in which fiction and reality refuse to remain separate.

This biography follows Moura Budberg through revolutionary Russia, exile, literary relationships, and competing espionage loyalties. Her attachment to British agent Robert Bruce Lockhart intersects with work for Soviet and British interests, drawing private desire into a life shaped by political danger.

As World War II ends, American pilot Robert Trimble undertakes a secret mission to rescue abandoned prisoners and civilians behind Soviet lines. His story follows improvised efforts to bring vulnerable people to safety amid strained Allied relations.

Art patron Peter Watson helped launch major painters, supported Horizon and helped establish the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This biography traces his cultural influence, turbulent relationships and search for fulfilment, ending with the mystery surrounding his premature death.

Born Margaret Anne Bulkley, James Barry built a distinguished career as an army surgeon while living as a man. This biography follows pioneering medical achievements, confrontations with authority and the personal isolation that accompanied an extraordinary professional life.

As Germany faces defeat in 1945, Hitler orders 139 valuable prisoners transported to an Alpine stronghold. Their threatened execution sets prisoners, volatile SS guards, German soldiers and American rescuers on a collision course during the war’s final days.

Jewish twins Friedel and Gina Rosenthal grow up as the Nazis rise to power. Forced through displacement, ghettos and camps, the sisters rely on their bond while struggling to survive persecution, separation from family and the Holocaust.

Martin Rosenthal lives in the shadow of his grandfather, a legendary wartime pilot. A new romance and a university break-in linked to secret weapons research draw him into dangerous uncertainties about his family’s past and his own reality.

Arrested in Vienna, Gustav Kleinmann and his teenage son Fritz struggle to survive Nazi concentration camps together. When Gustav is sent to Auschwitz, Fritz insists on accompanying him, testing their devotion against starvation, forced labour and constant danger.

Living alone on a remote Yorkshire farm, Carole shelters an exhausted stranger who has lost his memory and believes he is being pursued. Their growing trust promises healing, but the refuge they build together becomes a nightmare.