Matias FaldbakkenIn a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job. Into this static word a young woman walks through...

VS AlexanderIt’s not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister, Stefa. There is another gulf—between the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind...

Louis de Bernieres When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes...

Mandy Robotham Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code.July, 1940Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is...

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley *Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book Award *2016 Newbery Honor bookAn exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed...

Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive...

Richard Zimler It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen,...

Steve Berry In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, the arrogant greed of politics comes face-to-face with the weight of history.One by one the seven precious...

Lesley Eames Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out.  She is desperate to be useful but, nursing both an injured hand...

Daisy Styles1939.Mary Vale, a grand and imposing Mother and Baby Home, sits on the remote Fylde coast in Lancashire. Its doors are open to unmarried women who come to hide...

Ta-Nehisi CoatesYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power....

EL Doctorow One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his...