Lucy Adlington A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the...

Hans Fallada This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death,...

Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

John Lukacs This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat--on the eve of...

Ellen KeithA sweeping story of love and survival during World War IIAMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs...

Steve Sem-Sandberg Meet The Emperor of Lies: the award-winning novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg. Spanning three decades, this epic chronicle of a Jewish family in Poland tells a gripping story of...

Rosamunde Pilcher After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she'd spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie have always summoned the image...

Graham GreenThe novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the...

Esther Hautzig THE ENDLESS STEPPE is based on the author's true-life experience. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.Esther Rudomin was ten years old when,...

Esther HautzigIt is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland,...

Margaret LeroyWhen seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe...

Jake Wallis Simons   ‘Fascinating and moving’ – Monica Ali‘A powerful evocation of a bygone era’ – Sir Martin Gilbert‘An important subject explored by a writer to watch’ – Jonathan...