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by Amanda Hodgkinson
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by Anna Hope
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsAnna Hope's brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
by Clare Mulley
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsAcclaimed biographer Clare Mulley tells the extraordinary story of Britain's first female special agent of World War II, a charismatic, difficult, fearless, and altogether extraordinary woman.
by Jo Baker
Published Dec 2012
Read ReviewsThe American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century - a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past.
by Téa Obreht
Published Nov 2011
Read ReviewsWeaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorkers twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction
by Jane Smiley
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womans life, from the 1880s to World War II.
by Sarah Blake
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsThe Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA true story, as powerful as Schindlers List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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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