Helen DunmoreHelen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people, united by love, trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel The Siege. Leningrad, September 1941....

Aharon AppelfeldIt is the spring of 1939. In months Europe will be Hitler's, and Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its annual summer...

Elie WieselGamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life...

Hana Greenfield In Auschwitz, time had different dimensions. Time here was defined by waiting for the one daily ration of a slice of bread which was the very substance of...

Jean Fullerton It's 1940 and the German Luftwaffe have started their nightly reign of death and destruction over London's East End. The Brogan family is braced and ready to take...

Esi EdugyanThe aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is...

Suzanna Kelman941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Professor Josef Held appears to live a quiet, solitary life. That is, until he meets Hannah, an enigmatic woman with whom he shares an undeniable connection....

Vikram Seth   Two Lives is the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial divide. It tells of the extraordinary lives of Vikram Seth's great-uncle...

Jennie RooneyStephanie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is complicated and difficult to untangle. Meanwhile, Michael's memories are squashed into a shoebox (along with...

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows   A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.“Treat yourself to...

Maritz SpaarwaterA Spook's Progress: From Making War to Making PeaceThis book is an account of the career of a former South African intelligence agent, from his stint in the SADF...

Benjamin Sutherland