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by Stewart O'Nan
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War
by Suzanne Joinson
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsA powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.
by Kenneth Bonert
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA thrilling ride through the life of one fumbling young hero, The Lion Seeker is a glorious reinvention of the classic family and coming-of-age sagas.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsAn unusual coming-of-age story that examines the fluidity of identity and the ways in which people consciously redefine themselves in the face of love.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jul 2005
Read Reviews'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'.
by Sarah Bird
Published Oct 2002
Read Reviews'Who else can write about dancing, music, JP-4 fuel, the military, and strawberries, make it funny, and also make it about matters of the heart? Only Sarah Bird. This is her best book yet, a big book that you'll want to read again as soon as you finish it the first time.'
by Simone Zelitch
Published Dec 2001
Read ReviewsThe year is 1949 and Nora, a prickly, strong-willed survivor of the Holocaust, has just walked off the boat in Israel with her German daughter-in-law, Louisa. Superb...a seamless interweaving of observation, memory, and imagination...A mature and absorbing story...
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