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The Women
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Nightingale
2024 || Hardcover || Kristin Hannah || Pan Macmillan
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, The Women is the story of a generation, of epic love and profound loss. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.
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The Radetzky March
2024 || Paperback || Joseph Roth || Granta Books
Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
2024 || Paperback || Louis de Bernieres || Vintage Publishing
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces.
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Black Butterflies
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
2024 || Paperback || Priscilla Morris || Duckworth Books
Inspired by real-life accounts of the Siege of Sarajevo, only thirty years ago, Black Butterflies is a heartrending and utterly captivating portrait of disintegration, resilience and hope.
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The Sorrow of War
2024 || Paperback || Bao Ninh || Vintage Publishing
Kien’s job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the ‘All Quiet on the Western Front for our era’.
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The English Patient
Bloomsbury Modern Classics
2024 || Paperback || Michael Ondaatje || Bloomsbury Publishing
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
'Magnificent' Sunday Times
'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories.
The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a...
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Berlin Finale
2024 || Paperback || Heinz Rein || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Heinz Rein was an influential German novelist writing before and after the Second World War. He became a major figure in the 'rubble literature' period and his famous novel Berlin Finale, published in 1947, was one of the first bestsellers in the tumultuous German rebuilding period. He abandoned East Germany for the West in the 1950s.
Een leven vol oorlog
Een Nederlandse officier in de Jaren 1787-1845
2024 || Paperback || Bert de Vries || Boekscout
Als de jonge Alphons in 1787 als twaalfjarige jongen in Harlingen arriveert, weet hij niet precies wat hem te wachten staat. Als vaandrig heeft hij dienst genomen in het regiment van zijn oudoom de Schepper. In de volgende jaren vindt hij zijn plek steeds beter in deze harde militaire omgeving. Maar hij ontmoet ook de liefde van zijn leven. Met het uitbreken van de oorlog in 1793 raakt hij betrokken bij veel gevechtshandelingen. Tijdens de Veldtocht in Rusland komt hij aan het einde van zijn ...
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A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition
2024 || Paperback || Ernest Hemingway || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. This special edition lifts the lid on Hemingway’s creative process.
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Orlando King
2024 || Paperback || Isabel Colegate || Bloomsbury Publishing
The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times)
'If you are curious as to why Britain is still ruled by a tiny cadre of not-very-introspective aristo-capitalists, Orlando King is essential reading' Sunday Times
'Colegate's sharp-eyed trilogy about a young man on the make in 1930s London feels particularly resonant right now, given its acute take o...