The triumph of human endeavour against a harrowing landscape... A gripping, powerful tale that will more than touch your soul. Quite simply, this story needs to be read.

A wonderfully written, thought-provoking novel. . . It deserves a wide audience.

From the dusty fields of Zimbabwe to the refugee camps of South Africa, this is a heartbreaking, unputdownable tale of prejudice, resilience and brotherly love.

Gripping, suspenseful and deeply compassionate

This is a moving and important story about the brutality that takes place when dictators rule and hatred mounts. But it is ultimately uplifting when, united by football, a group of South African refugees reach the Street Soccer World Cup final.

Wonderful. A must-read for anyone who loves international YA fiction . . . very brave

Gut-wrenching . . . plenty of material to captivate readers: fast-paced soccer matches every bit as tough as the players . . . heartbreaking twists of fate, that will endure in readers' minds

I found this story incredibly troubling and moving; Deo and Innocent will stay with you.

A tough and heart-rending story, but one that needs telling

Full of hilarious set-pieces, wisecracks and wordplay.

Tillyard is a fluent and attractive chronicler of detail and some of her imaginative liberties are ingenious

This saga of lives swept up in the Peninsular War recalls Georgette Heyer at her best...impossible to put down

A thrilling romance brought to life with exquisite detail

A prodigious talent able to combine meticulous research with novelistic devices...there is much to enjoy and admire

Fluently written and impeccably researched

Gripping

It is time we stopped thinking of the historical novel as a genre, and an inferior one at that. If its ostensible subject matter means that it doesn't attempt to tell us how we live now, nevertheless a novel set back in time may, if it is good, say as much about what it is to be alive as one set in the next street or another country today. Tides of War is such a novel. It is diverting, but not a diversion

A well written, engaging read...beautifully observed

A vivid account of a couple of years in the Peninsula Campaign and a sympathetic portrait of those left behind

A delicious novel by an experienced author who captures the scientific atmosphere of the early 19th century with a devastating study of infidelity

The real life players of the Napoleonic era spring to life

Compelling

Highly assured and almost educational with its broad sweep of history

Tillyard’s achievement is in this original portray log the Regency era and its relevance to our own time