Antonio IturbeFor readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous.'It wasn’t an extensive...

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...

Alan Furst  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre–World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” —Janet Maslin, The New York TimesIn the...

Keggie Careweggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and...

Miklós Nyiszli, Tibère Kremer(Translator), Richard Seaver(Translator), Richard J. Evans(Introduction)When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical...

The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and SurvivalMona Golabek and Lee CohenBased on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the...

David R GillhamA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARIt is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at...

Michael Morpurgo   When cub reporter Lesley is sent to Venice to interview a world-renowned violinist, the journalist is told she can ask Paolo Levi anything about his life and...

Lisa WingateA new novel inspired by historical events: a story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and...

Thomas Friedman A Second Edition of Thomas Friedmans stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.If youre only going to read one book on the...

Rosie AlisonEngland, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with...