Books by Fiona McIntosh

'Make these little vines count. Love them as I love you.' In the summer of 1914, vigneron Jerome Mea heads off to war, certain he'll be home by Christmas. His new bride Sophie Delancre, a fifth generation champenoise, is determined to ensure the forthcoming vintages will be testa...ment to their love and the power of the people of pernay, especially its strong women who have elevated champagne to favourite beverage of the rich and royal worldwide. But as the years drag on, authorities advise that Jerome is missing, considered dead. When poison gas is first used in Belgium by the Germans, British chemist Charles Nash jumps to enlist, refusing to be part of the scientific team that retaliates. A brilliant marksman, Charlie is seen by his men as a hero, but soon comes to feel that he'd rather die himself than take another life. When he is injured, he is brought to the champagne cellars in Reims, where Sophie has set up an underground hospital, and later to her mansion house in pernay, now a retreat for the wounded. As Sophie struggles with strong feelings for her patient, she also battles to procure the sugar she needs for her 1918 vintage and attracts sinister advances from her brother-in-law. However, nothing can prepare her for the ultimate battle of the heart, when Jerome's bloodstained jacket and identification papers are found in Belgium, and her hopes of ever seeing her husband alive again are reignited. From the killing fields of Ypres to the sun-kissed vineyards of southern France, The Champagne War is a heart-stopping adventure about the true power of love and hope to light the way during war.
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Griff is an ordinary boy, working at a circus, but he has an extraordinary ability. He can receive people's thoughts, although in an unfocussed way. Ages 9+.

Dr Isla Fenwick has a life that most modern women of 1933 might envy - hercareer gives her status, her pedigree adds freedom, and her oldest crush, JovianMandeville, has reappeared in her life with a marriage proposal. Her life isbeginning to feel complete. However, she insists o...n keeping a private promise she made to her latemother to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to lifeas a dutiful wife. With Jove's blessing, Isla sails to Calcutta to set up a newmidwifery clinic. What she can't anticipate is how India will test everythingshe relies upon within, challenging her professionalism and her loyalties. But it is the fateful meeting of enigmatic ProfessorSaxon Vickery that will call into question what she trusts most about herself.When the pair travel into the foothills of the Himalaya for a stay on a tea plantationoutside Darjeeling, Isla must make the most important choice of her life. Andat the roof of the world - where heaven and earth collide - a price will beexacted for glimpsing heaven. From England's squally seaside town of Brighton toIndia's slums of Calcutta and breathtaking Himalayan mountains, this is aheartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling author of The Chocolate Tin.
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Alexandra Frobisher is a modern-thinking woman with hopes of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York. She has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra - love. Matthew Britten-Jones is a man of charm and strong so...cial standing. He impresses Alex and her parents with his wit and intelligence, but would an amicable union be enough for a fulfilling life together? At the end of the war, Captain Harry Blakeney discovers a dead soldier in a trench in France. In the man's possession is a secret love note, tucked inside a tin of chocolate that had been sent to the soldiers as a gift from the people back home. In pursuit of the author of this mysterious message, Harry travels to Rowntree's chocolate factory in England's north, where his life becomes inextricably bound with Alexandra and Matthew's. Only together will they be able to unlock secrets of the past and offer each other the greatest gift for the future. From the battlefields of northern France to the medieval city of York, this is a heartbreaking tale about a triangle of love in all its forms and a story about the bittersweet taste of life ...and of chocolate.
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Charismatic womaniser Jack Bryant has the world at his feet, but when trouble catches up with him he's forced to flee Penzance. Honest Ned Sinclair is on a family adventure in Rangoon when he is dealt a bitter blow. With all the odds against him, he risks his life in a desperate ...bid to escape. Both men hope to start their lives anew, seeking their fortune in India's fields of gold. Their paths collide in the colourful city of Bangalore, where they form a friendship like no other. In the years that follow, they remain inextricably bound by a dark secret, while their love for the same woman threatens to tear them apart. From the windswept cliffs of the Cornish coast to the goldmines of southern India, this is a page-turning story of high adventure, devastating tragedy and enduring love.
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