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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 35 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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