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by Suzanne Joinson
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by Ken Follett
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsThe first novel in The Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
by A.S. Byatt
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsA spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
by Barry Unsworth
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsIn Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, Barry Unsworth brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
by Elif Shafak
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsFrom one of Turkeys most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.
by Arthur Phillips
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliantly renders the Hungary of past and present: the generations of failed revolutionaries and lyric poets, opportunists and profiteers, heroes and storytellers.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
by James McBride
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsA singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, and heroism, based on an historical incident at a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers from the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II.
by W.G. Sebald
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsEmbodies the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the minds defenses against trauma.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Jul 2000
Read ReviewsSet in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
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