Oliver HilmesThis short book takes us through the sixteen days in August 1936 when the Olympic Games were staged in Berlin. With a chapter dedicated to each day, it describes...

Eleanor WasserbergA rich, moving, sweeping novel about a family forced to escape Krakow during the HolocaustWhen Alicia and her family are forced to flee Krakow to escape the Nazis, they...

JG Ballard‘This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism’ ObserverThe Kindness of Women continues the story...

Marion F SturkeyBonnie-Sue: A Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam"Bonnie-Sue" begins as a timeless classic, a story of men in combat. Yet, the book soars above the mud of war....

Ian Rankin"He’s gone…"When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.Rebus fears the worst...

Conn IgguldenThe fourth and final volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly weaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar. Caesar must...

Ian McEwan   Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have...

Alexander StarrittWhen a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met with irritation...

Ron Leshem   Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years....

Manuel RivasOn 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young...

Javier CercasIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the...

Steven EriksonIn Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small...