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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 263 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book These Days by Lucy Caldwell
    These Days - by Lucy Caldwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571313570 | ISBN 10: 0571313574

    From ‘one of Ireland’s most essential writers’ (Sunday Times) comes the exquisite story of two sisters trying to survive in life and love against the backdrop of the Belfast Blitz.  From the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Memoriam by Alice Winn
    In Memoriam - by Alice Winn

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241567821 | ISBN 10: 0241567823

    THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.  'Assured, affecting and moving. Alice Winn has written a devastating love story between two young men on the West ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
    Black Butterflies - by Priscilla Morris

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780715654613 | ISBN 10: 0715654616

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2023  ‘A moving, compelling, deeply human novel about love, hope and resilience in a city under siege. Everyone should read it’ Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters  Sarajevo, spring ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
    The Forest of Vanishing Stars - by Kristin Harmel

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781802793628 | ISBN 10: 1802793623

    Yona has used her knowledge of the wilderness to help hundreds of Jews escape the Nazis. But what happens when a secret from her past emerges and threatens everything?  After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
    The Twilight World - by Werner Herzog

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781847927231 | ISBN 10: 1847927238

    'A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lies, illusion and time' NEW YORK TIMES  In his first novel, the great filmmaker, Werner Herzog, tells the incredible story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
    Lucky Breaks - by Yevgenia Belorusets

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782278726 | ISBN 10: 1782278729

    In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist su ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Place That Place by Nandita Dinesh
    This Place That Place - by Nandita Dinesh

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781612199498 | ISBN 10: 1612199496

    An impassioned and inventive debut novel about two people earnestly searching for a way to preserve their friendship across seemingly insurmountable political divides.  This Place|That Place centers on two characters from opposing sides of an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boys of Gold by George Brinley Evans
    Boys of Gold - by George Brinley Evans

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595264 | ISBN 10: 1914595262

    "Boys of Gold displays a mural of memories that illustrate his life, comradeship, compatriots, kindred spirits as colliers and warriors."(Roy Noble) A collection of short stories, some set against the background of the author's life as a coalminer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
    Remote Sympathy - by Catherine Chidgey

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787703711 | ISBN 10: 1787703711

    Longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award  An exquisitely readable, polyphonic novel of domestic drama and human connection set in and around a concentration camp in Germany during the second w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
    The Mountains Sing - by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780861540136 | ISBN 10: 0861540131

    An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive.  Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021  Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine * BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Revie ... more

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  • Cover image of book At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
    At Night All Blood is Black - by David Diop

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781782277538 | ISBN 10: 1782277536

    Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole w ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende
    A Long Petal Of The Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526615947 | ISBN 10: 1526615940

    'September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.  Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
    Tyll - by Daniel Kehlmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529403671 | ISBN 10: 1529403677

    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020  He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is he ... more

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  • Cover image of book House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon
    House on Endless Waters - by Emuna Elon

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911630586 | ISBN 10: 191163058x

    Yoel has always known that his mother escaped the Nazis from Amsterdam. But it is not until after she has died that he finally visits the city of his birth. There, watching an old film clip at the Jewish Historical Museum, he sees a woman with a smal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Correspondents by Tim Murphy
    Correspondents - by Tim Murphy

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529040272 | ISBN 10: 1529040272

    Correspondents by Tim Murphy is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
    Slash and Burn - by Claudia Hernandez

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911508823 | ISBN 10: 1911508822

    Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe.  Like peasants through the ages, she desperately slashes and burns in order to make a place for her children to return to. A country girl sees her village sacked and ... more

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  • Cover image of book God 99 by Hassan Blasim
    God 99 - by Hassan Blasim

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x

    Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers...  The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    The Island of Sea Women - by Lisa See

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471183836 | ISBN 10: 1471183831

    A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.   Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
    Katalin Street - by Magda Szabo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857058478 | ISBN 10: 0857058479

    BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019   In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
    A Thousand Ships - by Natalie Haynes

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509836215 | ISBN 10: 1509836217

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019'   In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
    The World That We Knew - by Alice Hoffman

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471185854 | ISBN 10: 1471185850

    * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL *  In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stray Cats of Homs by Eva Nour
    The Stray Cats of Homs - by Eva Nour

    £12.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857526755 | ISBN 10: 0857526758

    'A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don't know how you've made it this far.'  Sami's childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blackbird by Claire Allen
    The Blackbird - by Claire Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999797409 | ISBN 10: 199979740x

    It is 1941. Hope’s father, Jenner, builds Liverpool Cathedral while the Luftwaffe’s bombs fall. It is 2014, and Hope cares for her husband Robert as Alzheimer’s destroys his personality.   Hope’s husband Robert is a retired civic sculpto ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pursuit Of William Abbey by Claire North
    The Pursuit Of William Abbey - by Claire North

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356507446 | ISBN 10: 0356507440

    ‘I was cursed in Natal, in 1884. Cursed by truth and by blood. The shadow took to me, and we have been together since.’  From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K comes a powerful new ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
    The Beekeeper of Aleppo - by Christy Lefteri

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838770013 | ISBN 10: 1838770011

    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Kite Runner and The Other Hand - a testament to the human powers of survival.  In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope ... more

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  • Cover image of book Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
    Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank - by David Gillham

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241367667 | ISBN 10: 0241367662

    A breathtaking new novel that asks the question: what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust?   In 1945, aged sixteen, Anne Frank walks out of the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and into a new life as a survivor of the Holocaust. Ret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cilka
    Cilka's Journey - by Heather Morris

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785769047 | ISBN 10: 1785769049

    Based on the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka's Journey is the sequel to the internationally No.1 bestselling phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.  'She was the bravest person I ever met' Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
    Red Birds - by Mohammed Hanif

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408897164 | ISBN 10: 1408897164

    A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR "A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy … Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical tradit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
    Warlight - by Michael Ondaatje

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784708344 | ISBN 10: 1784708348

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** **FINALIST FOR THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE**  It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Take by Robin Robertson
    The Long Take - by Robin Robertson

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509886258 | ISBN 10: 1509886257

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction  A noir narrative written with the intensity and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi
    The Baghdad Clock - by Shahad Al Rawi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786074867 | ISBN 10: 1786074869

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018   For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE.  It's 1991 and the Gulf War is raging. Two girls, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Horseman
    Horseman's Song - by Ben Pastor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912242115 | ISBN 10: 1912242117

    The sixth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series.   Spain, July 1937. The tragic prelude to World War II is played out in the Spanish Civil War. Among Franco’s troops is Martin Bora, the young German officer and detective, assigned to the Sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
    Never Anyone But You - by Rupert Thomson

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472153487 | ISBN 10: 1472153480

    Based on actual events, Never Anyone But You is the gripping, beautifully written story of a love affair between two revolutionary female artists who challenged the conventions of art and gender during the long twentieth century.  A small cit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Checkpoint by David Albahari
    Checkpoint - by David Albahari

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781632061928 | ISBN 10: 1632061929

    From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating, darkly funny Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Snake by A.L. Kennedy
    The Little Snake - by A.L. Kennedy

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786893864 | ISBN 10: 178689386x

    “Mary was a little bit taller than the other girls her age and had brownish crinkly hair. She was quite thin, because she didn't always have exactly enough to eat. She liked honey and whistling and the colour blue and finding out.”   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz - by Heather Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679

    Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
    Frankenstein in Baghdad - by Ahmed Saadawi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073976 | ISBN 10: 1786073978

    A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION   From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Bag ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
    White Chrysanthemum - by Mary Lynn Bracht

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705459 | ISBN 10: 1784705454

    'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'   Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
    The Good Doctor of Warsaw - by Elisabeth Gifford

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786492487 | ISBN 10: 1786492482

    ‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’   Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Other People
    Other People's Houses - by Lore Segal

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745750 | ISBN 10: 1908745754

    A new edition marking the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport.   Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
    A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - by Gil Courtemanche

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782118886 | ISBN 10: 1782118888

    A modern classic of immense power and and poignancy set amidst the horror of war.   In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwa ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
    To Die in Spring - by Ralf Rothmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509812868 | ISBN 10: 1509812865

    "[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership."(Guardian) Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
    My Cat Yugoslavia - by Pajtim Statovci

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782273608 | ISBN 10: 1782273603

    Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family.   Decades later Emi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
    A Boy in Winter - by Rachel Seiffert

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781844089994 | ISBN 10: 1844089991

    From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel.   Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. A Boy In Winter tells of the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden
    Nightmare in Berlin - by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344506 | ISBN 10: 1911344501

    Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.   Late April, 1945. The war is over yet Dr Doll, a loner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares
    Wolf Moon - by Julio Llamazares

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780720619454 | ISBN 10: 0720619459

    Defeated by the Nationalists, four Republican fugitives flee into the Cantabrian mountains at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They are on the run, skirmishing with the Guardia Civil, knowing that surrender means death. Wounded and hungry they are f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
    Cry Mother Spain - by Lydie Salvayre

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857054524 | ISBN 10: 085705452x

    A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl.  Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard ... more

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  • Cover image of book They are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
    They are Trying to Break Your Heart - by David Savill

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408865781 | ISBN 10: 1408865785

    Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 "Moving, tender, thrilling, important. It will stay with me for a very long time"(Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching) DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER   In 1994, Marko Nova ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devotion by Louisa Young
    Devotion - by Louisa Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007532902 | ISBN 10: 0007532903

    From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes’ Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her f ... more

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  • Cover image of book News from Nowhere by Jane Austin
    News from Nowhere - by Jane Austin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910836545 | ISBN 10: 1910836540

    Inspired by letters from family members who served on the Western Front and written home to Bangor, News From Nowhere describes the impact of war on a family, including Bronwyn, the sister coming of age as her brothers and father endure the torments ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone Always Robs the Poor by Carl MacDougall
    Someone Always Robs the Poor - by Carl MacDougall

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911332138 | ISBN 10: 1911332139

    A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers.   A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he’s never met. A woman recounts her family’s doomed attempt ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
    A Country Road, A Tree - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552779524 | ISBN 10: 0552779520

    Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
    Days Without End - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571333899 | ISBN 10: 0571333893

    'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'   After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
    Little Man, What Now? - by Hans Fallada

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911545033 | ISBN 10: 1911545035

    Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a devent life amidst an economic crisis that’s transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. It was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
    The Gustav Sonata - by Rose Tremain

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784700201 | ISBN 10: 1784700207

    ***Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award***   ** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **   What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switze ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller
    My Own Dear Brother - by Holly Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866795 | ISBN 10: 140886679x

    It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Tell Me You're Afraid - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571322695 | ISBN 10: 0571322697

    Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.   Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her ... more

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  • Cover image of book God in Pink by Hasan Namir
    God in Pink - by Hasan Namir

    £13.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781551526065 | ISBN 10: 1551526069

    A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Lambda Literary Award winner  The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003.  Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan
    Little Aunt Crane - by Geling Yan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099569633 | ISBN 10: 0099569639

    In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
    Under the Udala Trees - by Chinelo Okparanta

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847088383 | ISBN 10: 1847088384

    One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a r ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price
    No Knives in the Kitchens of This City - by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167812 | ISBN 10: 9774167813

    Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature: an eloquent portrayal of life under dictatorship by an acclaimed Syrian writer.  In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy and ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance by Owen Sheers
    Resistance - by Owen Sheers

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571326129 | ISBN 10: 0571326129

    Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.  In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book War by Janne Teller
    War - by Janne Teller

    £9.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471161476 | ISBN 10: 1471161471

    Endorsed by Amnesty International.  Imagine if war broke out – not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, Janne Teller embarks on a thought-provoking experiment: by simply turning the current cris ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099549246 | ISBN 10: 0099549247

    A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December.   The Sunday Times bestseller   On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks – an English doctor who has seen the best and ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
    All the Light We Cannot See - by Anthony Doerr

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008138301 | ISBN 10: 0008138303

    WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION   A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths colli ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
    The Japanese Lover - by Isabel Allende

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471152191 | ISBN 10: 1471152197

    From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Song for Night by Chris Abani
    A Song for Night - by Chris Abani

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592041 | ISBN 10: 1846592046

    Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night.   Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
    Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals - by Jesse Armstrong

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099578741 | ISBN 10: 0099578743

    From the creator of Peep Show.   Its 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. Their aim is to light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
    Little Warrior - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571322688 | ISBN 10: 0571322689

    A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner.   Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-tor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernires
    The Dust That Falls from Dreams - by Louis de Bernires

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099597834 | ISBN 10: 0099597837

    In the brief golden years of King Edward VIIs reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noonday by Pat Barker
    Noonday - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241966037 | ISBN 10: 0241966035

    In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
    Number 11 - by Jonathan Coe

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241967010 | ISBN 10: 0241967015

    This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tightrope by Simon Mawer
    Tightrope - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349140742 | ISBN 10: 034914074x

    A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room.  Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life.   Returned to an Engla ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl at War by Sara Novic
    Girl at War - by Sara Novic

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349140988 | ISBN 10: 0349140987

    Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016   Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the str ... more

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  • Cover image of book La Place de l
    La Place de l'Etoile - by Patrick Modiano

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867952 | ISBN 10: 1408867958

    Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.   We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphal Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    A Long Long Way - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571320233 | ISBN 10: 0571320236

    One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fallen by Lia Mills
    Fallen - by Lia Mills

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241964729 | ISBN 10: 0241964725

    Fallen by Lia Mills - a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter Rising.   SELECTED AS THE 2016 'ONE CITY ONE BOOK' TITLE FOR BOTH DUBLIN AND BELFAST   Spring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol by Elias Khoury
    The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol - by Elias Khoury

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848667723 | ISBN 10: 1848667728

    Lebanon's definitive national epic - a tale of sibling rivalry, civil war and betrayal by perhaps the finest living Arabic novelist.   Why did he return to Beirut?   Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780091936853 | ISBN 10: 0091936853

    On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.  His host, and antagonist, is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon-McKenna
    Rebel Sisters - by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848271999 | ISBN 10: 1848271999

    With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland.  Growing up in the privileged confines of Dublins leafy Rathmines, the bright, beautiful Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neverhome by Laird Hunt
    Neverhome - by Laird Hunt

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592921 | ISBN 10: 0099592924

    I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerky, biscuits, six old apples, fresh underthings and a blanket t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jakob
    Jakob's Colours - by Lindsay Hawdon

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444797664 | ISBN 10: 1444797662

    Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief.   Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perfidia by James Ellroy
    Perfidia - by James Ellroy

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099537755 | ISBN 10: 0099537753

    Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.  Following the hellish murder of a Japanese fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dictator
    The Dictator's Last Night - by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Julian Evans

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910477137 | ISBN 10: 1910477133

    In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history.   People say I am a megalomaniac. It ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
    The Book of Aron - by Jim Shepard

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784290320 | ISBN 10: 1784290327

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD** 'Powerful . . . shattering . . . a masterpiece' The Times 'Testament of love and sacrifice . . . a masterpiece' Joshua Ferris, Guardian 'Transcendent and timeless . . . masterpiece' Washington Post Aron ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
    A Whole Life - by Robert Seethaler

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447283904 | ISBN 10: 1447283902

    The 170,000-copy German bestseller Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her han ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
    Beasts of No Nation - by Uzodinma Iweala

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473625556 | ISBN 10: 1473625556

    Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre).   Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Harlequin by Nina Allen
    The Harlequin - by Nina Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124383 | ISBN 10: 1910124389

    Winner of the Novella Award 2015  The armistice is months past but the memories wont go away.  A harlequin, leaning against a tree stump and with a goblet of ale clasped in one outstretched hand. Beaumont felt chilled suddenly, in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £20.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091936839 | ISBN 10: 0091936837

    On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.   His host, and antagonist, is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death
    The Death's Head Chess Club - by John Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137

    Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?  In 1962, Emil Clment comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clment, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fires of Autumn by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
    The Fires of Autumn - by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099520368 | ISBN 10: 0099520362

    The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Franaise: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war.  The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irne Nmirovskys life, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
    Only the Animals - by Ceridwen Dovey

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782397175 | ISBN 10: 1782397175

    The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death.  In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
    Time and Time Again - by Ben Elton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552779999 | ISBN 10: 0552779997

    Its the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.   Stanton knows that a great a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
    Mr Mac and Me - by Esther Freud

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408857212 | ISBN 10: 1408857219

    Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming and the summer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Outcast by Sadie Jones
    The Outcast - by Sadie Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784700799 | ISBN 10: 1784700797

    The bestselling novel behind the major new BBC drama starring Jessica Brown Findlay, George Mackay, Greg Wise and Hattie Morahan  Sussex, 1957. Lewis is nineteen, straight out of jail, and stands alone at a railway station. Only one person is t ... more

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  • Cover image of book See Out the Crazy Times by Sylvia Hikins
    See Out the Crazy Times - by Sylvia Hikins

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784622831 | ISBN 10: 1784622834

    Winter, 1939. Edna and Lucy, along with new-born babies Jack and Lily, return to London during the war to a world gone mad. Forced to live underground, sleeping on the dark and dingy platforms of the Underground, they emerge each day to be confronted ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aliyyah by Chris Dolan
    Aliyyah - by Chris Dolan

    £8.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908251442 | ISBN 10: 1908251441

    Captain Robert Haldane wakes up in a strange room, in an old house, surrounded by a beautiful but ramshackle orchard, miles from anywhere. The last thing he can remember is his helicopter being shot down over enemy territory. It appears he is in a sa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
    Lucky Us - by Amy Bloom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847089397 | ISBN 10: 1847089399

    When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed
    The Book of Gold Leaves - by Mirza Waheed

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970829 | ISBN 10: 0241970822

    Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
    The Wives of Los Alamos - by TaraShea Nesbit

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408845899 | ISBN 10: 140884589x

    Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where every ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heroes
    The Heroes' Welcome - by Louisa Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007361472 | ISBN 10: 0007361475

    The Heroes Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Youngs wonderful writing, and those ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North - by Richard Flanagan

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099593584 | ISBN 10: 0099593580

    A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.  ***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***   Forever after, there were for the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
    Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals - by Jesse Armstrong

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780224097345 | ISBN 10: 0224097342

    A group of well-intentioned students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' - the first novel from the BAFTA Award-winning writer of Peep Show and The Thick of It.  Its 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Begin to Tell You - by Elizabeth Buchan

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718158002 | ISBN 10: 0718158008

    Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel I Can't Begin to Tell You.   When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poldark: Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
    Poldark: Ross Poldark - by Winston Graham

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447281528 | ISBN 10: 1447281527

    A reissue of the first book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC series.  Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
    A Man Lies Dreaming - by Lavie Tidhar

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444762945 | ISBN 10: 144476294x

    The next novel from Lavie Tidhar, the award-winning author of The Violent Century.  Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, ... more

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  • Cover image of book A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
    A God in Every Stone - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408847237 | ISBN 10: 140884723x

    July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame and the Captives by Thomas Keneally
    Shame and the Captives - by Thomas Keneally

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444781274 | ISBN 10: 1444781278

    A dramatic and fascinating novel based on a notorious breakout by Japanese prisoners from an Australian POW camp in 1944, encapsulating the impact of war on ordinary lives.  On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
    The Spring of Kasper Meier - by Ben Fergusson

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349139760 | ISBN 10: 0349139768

    Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.   The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of Our Power by Victor Serge
    Birth of Our Power - by Victor Serge

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630304 | ISBN 10: 1629630306

    Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 19171919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
    Radiance of Tomorrow - by Ishmael Beah

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780374535032 | ISBN 10: 0374535035

    A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone  When Ishmael Beahs A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Le ... more

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  • Cover image of book After the Bombing by Clare Morrall
    After the Bombing - by Clare Morrall

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444736465 | ISBN 10: 1444736469

    By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War.  Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Man
    No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War - by Pete Ayrton (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846689260 | ISBN 10: 1846689260

    The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl with a White Dog by Anne Booth
    Girl with a White Dog - by Anne Booth

    £6.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846471810 | ISBN 10: 1846471818

    Jessie is fed up: her dad's business has gone bust; they've had to leave behind their family home; and her cousin Fran - who used to be her best friend - is ignoring her, in favour of the cool crowd at school. An unexpected bright spot comes in the s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
    Under Fire - by Henri Barbusse

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432

    'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Of Love and Other Wars by Sophie Hardach
    Of Love and Other Wars - by Sophie Hardach

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849833004 | ISBN 10: 1849833001

    At a rally in the Royal Albert Hall, two Quaker brothers, Paul and Charlie Lamb, sign a pledge of peace that only one of them will honour. Meanwhile, in a draughty Victorian mansion in Hampstead, Mr. Morningstar wonders why his wife, a crystallograph ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
    The Two Hotel Francforts - by David Leavitt

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843215 | ISBN 10: 1408843218

    It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
    Red Joan - by Jennie Rooney

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575733 | ISBN 10: 0099575736

    Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists to unworldly Joan it is dazzling.  After a chance meeting with Russian-born Sonya and Leo, Joan is swept up in the glamour and energy of the duo, and finds herself growing close ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
    The Undertaking - by Audrey Magee

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053

    Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
    The Moon is Down - by John Steinbeck

    £6.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395371 | ISBN 10: 0141395370

    In this remarkable novel of human courage and defiance, Steinbeck celebrates democracy and the power of the individual against tyranny.   A North European country has been invaded. In one small town the people's initial confusion crystallizes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)
    The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction - by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781905583645 | ISBN 10: 1905583648

    Featuring Atef Abu Saif, Abdallah Tayeh, Talal Abu Shawish, Mona Abu Sharekh, Najlaa Ataallah, Ghareeb Asqalani, Nayrouz Qarmout, Yusra al Khatib, Asmaa al Ghul & Zaki al 'Ela Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
    The Light and the Dark - by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780871080 | ISBN 10: 1780871082

    Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - by Anthony Marra

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575573 | ISBN 10: 0099575574

    When everything else seems lost, watch out for the unexpected ties that bind us together...  Longlisted for the National Book Award 2013  In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969144 | ISBN 10: 024196914x

    The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction.   1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the fron ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jebel Marra by Michelle Green
    Jebel Marra - by Michelle Green

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781905583546 | ISBN 10: 1905583540

    In 2005, the poet Michelle Green spent six months working for a humanitarian aid agency in West Darfur. Her job was to navigate a complex web of government regulations and domestic logistics so that her colleagues, Sudanese and international, could d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
    The Blue Hour - by Alonso Cueto

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099533092 | ISBN 10: 009953309x

    Adrin Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Limas wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers a letter amongst her possessions making shocking cl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twilight by Elie Wiesel
    Twilight - by Elie Wiesel

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241963678 | ISBN 10: 0241963672

    Twilight is a haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel.   Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crossbones by Nurudin Farah
    Crossbones - by Nurudin Farah

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847086105 | ISBN 10: 1847086101

    A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jee ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
    The Fall of the Stone City - by Ismail Kadare

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857860125 | ISBN 10: 0857860127

    Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastr, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dre ... more

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  • Cover image of book HHhH by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
    HHhH - by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555643 | ISBN 10: 0099555646

    An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.  Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
    Her Privates We - by Frederic Manning

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846687877 | ISBN 10: 184668787x

    A new edition of a classic First World War novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict. First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspect ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
    The Daughters of Mars - by Thomas Keneally

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780340951880 | ISBN 10: 0340951885

    By the author of Schindler's Ark, a profoundly affecting tale of love, courage and sacrifice and a searing evocation of the First World War from a fresh, female perspective.  In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nur ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    All Quiet on the Western Front - by Erich Maria Remarque

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099532811 | ISBN 10: 0099532816

    All Quiet on the Western Front is the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'gl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
    Death of a Hero - by Richard Aldington

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106876 | ISBN 10: 0143106872

    One of the great World War I antiwar novels honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical.   Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan
    Worthless Men - by Andrew Cowan

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444759426 | ISBN 10: 1444759426

    A novel about the First World War that is as mesmerising as it is unusual, a triumphant new work by one of the most acclaimed writers of the 90s.   It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
    Sanctuary Line - by Jane Urquhart

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857386397 | ISBN 10: 0857386395

    Solitary, nostalgic Liz Crane returns to her familys now-deserted farmhouse to study the migratory habits of the Monarch butterfly.   A rich family history all the anecdotes and blarney of successful Irish immigrants is now tainted with s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
    Valentine Grey - by Sandi Toksvig

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088331 | ISBN 10: 1844088332

    From one of the nation's best-loved writers and performers comes a wonderful novel about a spirited young girl who goes to war as a young man.   London 1897 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home by Toni Morrison
    Home - by Toni Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555940 | ISBN 10: 0099555948

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved comes a dazzling new novel set in 1950s America in the aftermath of the Korean War.  It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
    The Yellow Birds - by Kevin Powers

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444756142 | ISBN 10: 1444756141

    An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is already being hailed as a modern classic.  WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012 WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
    The Garden of Evening Mists - by Tan Twan Eng

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782110187 | ISBN 10: 1782110186

    The International Bestseller Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2013 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 "With ravishing sensuousness, it conjures up the lush landscapes and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
    The Long Earth - by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552164085 | ISBN 10: 0552164089

    1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?   2015: Madison, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toby
    Toby's Room - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141042206 | ISBN 10: 0141042206

    Pat Barker returns to the First World War in Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship.   When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
    Scenes from Early Life - by Philip Hensher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007450107 | ISBN 10: 0007450109

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.   I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my au ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noah
    Noah's Child - by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874190 | ISBN 10: 1848874197

    It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides ove ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sentinel by Mark Oldfield
    The Sentinel - by Mark Oldfield

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908800671 | ISBN 10: 1908800674

    1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco's shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day.   1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco's secret p ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
    An Honourable Man - by Gillian Slovo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086658 | ISBN 10: 1844086658

    From one of Britains most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
    The Boy I Love - by Marion Husband

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908262721 | ISBN 10: 1908262729

    The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his fathers home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiance of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
    Beware of Pity - by Stefan Zweig

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908968371 | ISBN 10: 1908968370

    Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
    Apricot Jam and Other Stories - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857863195 | ISBN 10: 0857863193

    'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.'   Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshta by Petra Prochzkov, translated by  Julia Sherwood
    Freshta - by Petra Prochzkov, translated by Julia Sherwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780957132641 | ISBN 10: 0957132646

    Welcome to Kabul: one family, countless secrets.   When Herra, a Russian-Tadjik woman, falls in love with Nadir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Absolutist by John Boyne
    The Absolutist - by John Boyne

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552775403 | ISBN 10: 0552775401

    September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. ... more

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  • Cover image of book So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
    So It Is - by Liam Murray Bell

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908434142 | ISBN 10: 1908434147

    Spanning the decades that saw Northern Ireland move from brutal conflict to uncertain peace in the 1990s, this powerful new take on the literature of the Troubles is both a political coming-of-age novel and a fast-paced literary thriller. Aoife, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toploader by Ed O
    Toploader - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857388339 | ISBN 10: 0857388339

    Flora is a plucky teenage girl. Cobra is a double agent. Flint Driscoll is a reporter. Captain Smith is a military man. Moon is a bored drone pilot. Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain.   All they have in common is a very stupid war ... more

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  • Cover image of book The German Boy by Tricia Wastvedt
    The German Boy - by Tricia Wastvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780670919437 | ISBN 10: 0670919438

    In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him.  Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green
    Blooms of Darkness - by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846882111 | ISBN 10: 1846882117

    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012.   The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven- year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston
    Shadowstory - by Jennifer Johnston

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755383498 | ISBN 10: 0755383494

    A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers.  It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child and Polly, spending month ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That I Am by Anna Funder
    All That I Am - by Anna Funder

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780670920426 | ISBN 10: 0670920428

    When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the grea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Bunny by Jill Dawson
    Lucky Bunny - by Jill Dawson

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780340935682 | ISBN 10: 0340935685

    'Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with a glove to stop the train, while the two others ... more

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  • Cover image of book 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
    22 Britannia Road - by Amanda Hodgkinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141399676 | ISBN 10: 0141399678

    War changes us all, and sometimes we no longer recognise ourselves...   'Housekeeper or housewife?' the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - by Jamie Ford

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780749010720 | ISBN 10: 074901072x

    1986, The Panama Hotel.   The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during W ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
    My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You - by Louisa Young

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007361441 | ISBN 10: 0007361440

    While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Picture Book by Jo Baker
    The Picture Book - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846273827 | ISBN 10: 184627382x

    Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots.   First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his s ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Canaan
    On Canaan's Side - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571226542 | ISBN 10: 057122654x

    'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things'.   Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dubl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
    The Report - by Jessica Francis Kane

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846272806 | ISBN 10: 1846272807

    It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London.   From every corner of Bethnal Green, people emerge from pubs, cinemas and houses and set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein
    From the Land of the Moon - by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450014 | ISBN 10: 1609450019

    An young unnamed woman reflects the life of her grandmother, a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century.   In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, the young womans gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
    The Marrowbone Marble Company - by Glenn Taylor

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007359080 | ISBN 10: 000735908x

    A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit. From the author of the critically-acclaimed The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
    Half of the Human Race - by Anthony Quinn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099531944 | ISBN 10: 0099531941

    Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.   Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
    The Emperor of Lies - by Steve Sem-Sandberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571259212 | ISBN 10: 0571259219

    In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. A wire fence was built around the Old City, completely separating Jewish families, some quarter of a million people, from the re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed
    The Collaborator - by Mirza Waheed

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141048581 | ISBN 10: 0141048581

    It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amy
    Amy's Diary - by Maureen Lee

    £1.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409137382 | ISBN 10: 1409137384

    Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a brand new Maureen Lee - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Submission by Amy Waldman
    The Submission - by Amy Waldman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099528241 | ISBN 10: 009952824x

    Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath. A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the enve ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Lies by Lynn Michell
    White Lies - by Lynn Michell

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780955961830 | ISBN 10: 0955961831

    By 1950, Kenya was on the verge of one of the bloodiest wars of decolonisation fought in Britains twentieth century empire. Britains Gulag.   Eve is dutifully typing her fathers dictated memoirs of his time as a soldier in WWII and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons
    The English German Girl - by Jake Wallis Simons

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846972089 | ISBN 10: 1846972086

    Fifteen-year-old Rosa Klein slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out an ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev
    I Am a Chechen! - by German Sadulaev

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099532354 | ISBN 10: 0099532352

    The first compelling voice in literary fiction to emerge from the Chechen War.  I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prince
    The Prince's Pen - by Horatio Clare

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781854115522 | ISBN 10: 1854115529

    "...an epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...this reworked tale provides a graphic depiction of the cruelty of war and torture"(The Guardian 2011) The Invaders drones hear everything and see all. England is now a defeated archipelago ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
    Dark Matter - by Michelle Paver

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781409121183 | ISBN 10: 1409121186

    January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Message by Tariq Goddard
    The Message - by Tariq Goddard

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846948794 | ISBN 10: 1846948797

    Set in a fictional African state in the grip of a civil war provoked by the emergence of The Mahdi, a pretender to the leadership of the Islamic world, The Message is the latest literary thriller from Tariq Goddard, an exciting and topical treatment ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jew by D. O. Dodd
    Jew - by D. O. Dodd

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781842433997 | ISBN 10: 1842433997

    A man regains consciousness to find himself naked in a mass grave, with no idea who he is. His thought is survival, but in a religious war survival depends on knowing which side you are on.  Donning another man's military uniform, he driv ... more

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  • Cover image of book To the End of the Land by David Grossman
    To the End of the Land - by David Grossman

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546740 | ISBN 10: 0099546744

    From one of the world's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life the greatest human drama and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofers release from Isra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
    Mendelssohn is on the Roof - by Jiri Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907970016 | ISBN 10: 1907970010

    The third Daunt Books publication is a deeply moving novel by a remarkable yet neglected chronicler of the Holocaust.   Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wrong Blood by Manuel De Lope, translated by John Cullen
    The Wrong Blood - by Manuel De Lope, translated by John Cullen

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099551850 | ISBN 10: 0099551853

    An hypnotic read from a master storyteller about a secret pact between two women during the Spanish Civil War.  On the cusp of the Spanish Civil War in a coastal village in the Basque country, three men stop off at Extarris bar on their ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stillness of the Sea by Nicol Ljubic
    Stillness of the Sea - by Nicol Ljubic

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251015 | ISBN 10: 1908251018

    The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrators unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suff ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accident by Ismail Kadare
    The Accident - by Ismail Kadare

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847673404 | ISBN 10: 1847673406

    Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna? Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat? How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clou ... more

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  • Cover image of book South Riding by Winifred Holtby
    South Riding - by Winifred Holtby

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849902038 | ISBN 10: 1849902038

    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.  Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sara ... more

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  • Cover image of book Izzy
    Izzy's War - by Isla Dewar

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780091938130 | ISBN 10: 0091938139

    There was rapture in Izzys life. It came when she was flying. She thought she could write a book about the things shed seen from above - herds of deer, hundreds of them, rippling across hilltops, housespeople small as matchstick men. Once, shed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman
    Heart Specialist - by Claire Holden Rothman

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851687947 | ISBN 10: 1851687947

    Agnes White has only ever wanted of one thing: to follow in her fathers great footsteps and become a doctor. But her remarkable intelligence is regarded as disruptive, and her awkward manner and careless appearance nothing but the mark of a spinster ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gendarme by Mark Musitian
    The Gendarme - by Mark Musitian

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688395 | ISBN 10: 1851688390

    An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness. Emet Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War 1 veteran who suffered amnesia during the war. Now at the end of his life, he suddenly f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Purge by Sofi Oksanen
    Purge - by Sofi Oksanen

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848872134 | ISBN 10: 1848872135

    Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it.   Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.  Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jacob
    Jacob's Room - by Virginia Woolf

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781935554363 | ISBN 10: 1935554360

    Jacob's Room was the first book in Virginia Woolf's unique, experimental style, making it an important text of early Modernism. Ostensibly, the story is about the life of Jacob Flanders, the title character, who is evoked purely by other characters' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beneath the Lion
    Beneath the Lion's Gaze - by Maaza Mengiste

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539926 | ISBN 10: 0099539926

    An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopias revolution.  Beneath the Lions Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
    The Warsaw Anagrams - by Richard Zimler

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849013697 | ISBN 10: 1849013691

    A chilling and stunningly written mystery set in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto.   Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psy ... more

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  • Cover image of book K: the Art of Love by Hong Ying
    K: the Art of Love - by Hong Ying

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241950692 | ISBN 10: 0241950694

    China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their pass ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
    An Unfinished Business - by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809440 | ISBN 10: 1408809443

    A major novel that tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture the Shoah.  Rachel and Malrich are the sons of a German father and an Algerian mother. Born in a small village in the Algerian hinterland, they are sent to Paris to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent
    The Auschwitz Violin - by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849019811 | ISBN 10: 1849019819

    An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
    The Surrendered - by Chang-rae Lee

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122977 | ISBN 10: 0349122970

    June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brodeck
    Brodeck's Report - by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906694685 | ISBN 10: 1906694680

    From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
    All the Nice Girls - by Joan Bakewell

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844085316 | ISBN 10: 1844085317

    It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor
    The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart - by Glenn Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007339549 | ISBN 10: 0007339542

    Theres little room in this world for a moral man. Meet Early Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teache ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
    The Age of Orphans - by Laleh Khadivi

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408802533 | ISBN 10: 1408802538

    A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
    Black Mamba Boy - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007315772 | ISBN 10: 0007315775

    For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801123 | ISBN 10: 1408801124

    Two sisters, a world at war and one life-changing secret.  Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
    Mammoths of the Great Plains - by Eleanor Arnason

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860757 | ISBN 10: 1604860758

    When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected - he hoped! - that they might still roam the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar
    Needle in a Haystack - by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738565 | ISBN 10: 1904738567

    Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky
    The Cowards - by Josef Skvorecky

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141047676 | ISBN 10: 0141047674

    The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication.  In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Union Jack by Imre Kertesz
    The Union Jack - by Imre Kertesz

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781933633879 | ISBN 10: 1933633875

    A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.  An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack the British Flag during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Gods by Anna Richards
    Little Gods - by Anna Richards

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330464413 | ISBN 10: 0330464418

    A glorious, towering triumph of a novel from the author Ali Smith called 'a huge new talent'.   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling to Heaven by Jeanne Peterson
    Falling to Heaven - by Jeanne Peterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687367 | ISBN 10: 185168736x

    Tibet, 1954. The highest pass of the Himalayas is enveloped in silence save the flapping of prayer flags. Seven thousand feet below, two Americans travellingon foot arrive in the remote town of Shigatse, intending to make it their new home. Steeped i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O
    Not Untrue and Not Unkind - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141038063 | ISBN 10: 0141038063

    In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story by Jacques Chessex
    A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story - by Jacques Chessex

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738510 | ISBN 10: 1904738516

    On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitlers birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Armies by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean
    The Armies - by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906694777 | ISBN 10: 190669477x

    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.  In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar
    A Good Land - by Nada Awar Jarrar

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007221981 | ISBN 10: 0007221983

    The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever- changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after anot ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love Children by Marilyn French
    The Love Children - by Marilyn French

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616066 | ISBN 10: 1558616063

    Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters of The Women's Room generation in her highly antic ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
    How Many Miles to Babylon? - by Jennifer Johnston

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046969 | ISBN 10: 0141046961

    Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. Wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peace by Richard Bausch
    Peace - by Richard Bausch

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848870857 | ISBN 10: 184887085x

    Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of World War II. Haunted by the col ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
    The Glass Room - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121321 | ISBN 10: 034912132x

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
    Brixton Beach - by Roma Tearne

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301560 | ISBN 10: 0007301561

    Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs br ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    Burnt Shadows - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408800874 | ISBN 10: 140880087x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantnamo Bay. How did it come ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
    The Madman of Freedom Square - by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905583256 | ISBN 10: 1905583257

    From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasims stories present an uncompromising ... more

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  • Cover image of book See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante
    See How Much I Love You - by Luis Leante

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780714531540 | ISBN 10: 0714531545

    When Montse and Santiago meet as teenagers in 70s Barcelona they have little idea where their summer romance will lead. After they break up, in spite of Montse's pregnancy, Santiago decides to spend his military service as far away from her as p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guernica by Dave Boling
    Guernica - by Dave Boling

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330460668 | ISBN 10: 0330460668

    An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.   In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
    Homecoming - by Bernard Schlink

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823286 | ISBN 10: 0753823284

    When thirteen-year-old Peter discovers an old manuscript in his family home it instantly captivates him. The manuscript tells the compelling story of a German soldier's homecoming after escaping from a POW camp, but the document is incomplete, and Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann
    Child of All Nations - by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141188454 | ISBN 10: 0141188456

    "Nothing short of a revelation... I am still haunted by it."(Evening Standard) Because Kully's father has written the wrong things about his country, and because there might be a war coming (Kully's heard of some of the men involved, like Hitler, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
    The Wasted Vigil - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571238804 | ISBN 10: 0571238807

    'This land and its killing epochs.' Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories by Edited by Peter Burton
    A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories - by Edited by Peter Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906413316 | ISBN 10: 1906413312

    In this new anthology of gay-themed short stories, readers will find themselves consumed in a whirlwind of enthusiasm over these carefully-selected and arresting works about the conflicts of war.   The title story follows the actions of a sma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Regeneration by Pat Barker
    Regeneration - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030937 | ISBN 10: 0141030933

    Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by me ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
    The Eye in the Door - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030944 | ISBN 10: 0141030941

    London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men pacifists, objectors, homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of hims ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x

    1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class by Pat Barker
    Life Class - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141019475 | ISBN 10: 0141019476

    In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville himself not long out of the Slade bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
    People of the Book - by Geraldine Brooks

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007177424 | ISBN 10: 0007177429

    The new novel from the author of March and Year of Wonders takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is the What by Dave Eggers
    What is the What - by Dave Eggers

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141015743 | ISBN 10: 0141015748

    This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was separated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Olive Grove by Deborah Rohan
    The Olive Grove - by Deborah Rohan

    £11.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566677 | ISBN 10: 0863566677

    The Moghrabis have lived in Palestine for centuries. Near the end of the First World War, Ottoman soldier Kamel Moghrabi is imprisoned by his Turkish masters. Reunited with his family after being freed by British soldiers, he marries his childhood sw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Day by A.L. Kennedy
    Day - by A.L. Kennedy

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099494058 | ISBN 10: 0099494051

    Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mosquito by Roma Tearne
    Mosquito - by Roma Tearne

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007233663 | ISBN 10: 0007233663

    A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice.  When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife's death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush lands ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sarah
    Sarah's Key - by Tatiana de Rosay

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719524523 | ISBN 10: 0719524520

    Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
    Mister Pip - by Lloyd Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719569944 | ISBN 10: 071956994x

    'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
    Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

    This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishimas finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boys development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.   Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
    The Speed of Light - by Javier Cercas

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585916 | ISBN 10: 0747585911

    An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust, Caution: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang
    Lust, Caution: And Other Stories - by Eileen Chang

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141034386 | ISBN 10: 0141034386

    In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan
    When Memory Dies - by A. Sivanandan

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147595 | ISBN 10: 1905147597

    Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007200283 | ISBN 10: 0007200285

    The highly anticipated new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.During this turbulen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773805 | ISBN 10: 0552773808

    What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he kno ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
    The Night Watch - by Sarah Waters

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844082414 | ISBN 10: 1844082415

    Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a novel that marks a departure from the nineteenth century. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liasons, sexual ad ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
    Let It Be Morning - by Sayed Kashua

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843545439 | ISBN 10: 1843545438

    A young journalist, recently married and with a new baby, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large house in his parent's hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people pet ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Casualty by Ben Elton
    The First Casualty - by Ben Elton

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552771306 | ISBN 10: 0552771309

    Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged w ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    A Long Long Way - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218011 | ISBN 10: 0571218016

    One of the most vivid and realised charcaters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
    Big Breasts and Wide Hips - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413771551 | ISBN 10: 0413771555

    In 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion rages in China, baby Shangguan Lu is hidden in a flour vat while her parents are slain by invading German forces.Ninety-three years later, having survived the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Grear Leap Forward ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hill Road by Patrick O
    The Hill Road - by Patrick O'Keeffe

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579403 | ISBN 10: 0747579407

    The townland of Kilroan in the 1970s is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants on poor farmers; a time when a ... more

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  • Cover image of book War Trash by Ha Jin
    War Trash - by Ha Jin

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023960 | ISBN 10: 0141023961

    North-East China, 1951. Yu Yuan, a fresh-faced cadet straight out of university, finds himself attached to a corps of 'volunteers' sent by Mao to help shore up the communist side in Korea at the outset of the 1951-3 War. Poorly armed and unprepared f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - by Johnathan Safran Foer

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141012698 | ISBN 10: 0141012692

    Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
    The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank - by Ellen Feldman

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330440004 | ISBN 10: 0330440004

    Imagine if the boy in hiding with Anne Frank had survived the war... On 16 February 1944, Peter, Anne Frank's closest confidant in the Secret Annex, declared that if he got out alive he would reinvent himself entirely; no one would ever know who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saturday by Ian McEwan
    Saturday - by Ian McEwan

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099469681 | ISBN 10: 0099469685

    Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
    The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War - by Jaroslav Hasek

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140449914 | ISBN 10: 0140449914

    Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sticks and Stones by Peter Kuper
    Sticks and Stones - by Peter Kuper

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781400052578 | ISBN 10: 1400052572

    In a barren landscape, an empire is about to rise and an epic struggle is about to unfold. Sticks and Stones illuminates this earth-shaking tale without a single word. It is as elemental as hieroglyphics, a timeless story for all ages.In Sticks and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lizard Tails by Juan Marse
    Lizard Tails - by Juan Marse

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099455172 | ISBN 10: 009945517x

    In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence, Marse paints a picture of family life in a suburb of Barcelona at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War. David's alcoholic father, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Small Island by Andrea Levy
    Small Island - by Andrea Levy

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780755307500 | ISBN 10: 075530750x

    Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do?  Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
    The Dark Room - by Rachel Seiffert

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099287179 | ISBN 10: 009928717x

    The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans : Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastate ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - by Michael Chabon

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781841154930 | ISBN 10: 1841154938

    One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his arduous and nerve-wracking escape from Prague finally achieved - with the help of his mentor, the master illusionist Kornblum. But little does he real ... more

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  • Cover image of book For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
    For Whom the Bell Tolls - by Ernest Hemingway

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099289821 | ISBN 10: 0099289822

    High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
    A Farewell to Arms - by Ernest Hemingway

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099273974 | ISBN 10: 0099273977

    Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written. In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was woun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Mr Kawabata by Rashid Al-Daif, translated by Paul Starkey
    Dear Mr Kawabata - by Rashid Al-Daif, translated by Paul Starkey

    £7.00   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780704381131 | ISBN 10: 0704381133

    As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disorded imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
    The Story of the Night - by Colm Toibin

    £8.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780330340182 | ISBN 10: 0330340182

    In Argentina in the time of the Generals, Richard Garay lives quietly with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. But Argentina is changing, and as the Falklans War is fought and lost, Richard begins to emerge into the world. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories by Various authors
    Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories - by Various authors

    £15.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780719045981 | ISBN 10: 0719045983

    "A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection ... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women."(Pat Barker) This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    Catch-22 - by Joseph Heller

    £9.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780099477310 | ISBN 10: 0099477319

    Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill hi ... more

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