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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > First World War fiction
In Belgie loop die negentiende eeu ook ten einde. Elisabeth, die
dogter van die smid, trou met die jong dokter, Guillaume
Duponselle. Dit sal nie ’n gelukkige huwelik word nie. As Elisabeth
agt maande later aan ’n tweeling geboorte skenk, is die
eersgeborene ’n pragtige seun, Valentyn. Die tweede kind is so
mismaak dat Guillaume weier om hom ’n naam te gee. Tog bly Naamloos
lewe. Omdat sy voorkoms sy vader en die dorpenaars ontstel, gaan
Naamloos gesluierd deur die lewe. Dan tree die Eerste Wereldoorlog
op die toneel. Van kant gemaak vertel ’n broeierige verhaal vol
dorpsgefluister. Vir almal verloop die toekoms anders as wat hulle
verwag.
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From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker -
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary
Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance
of Solomon Farthing. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn
ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the
only clue to the truth . . . An old soldier dies alone in his
Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no Will to enact.
Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and fifty thousand
pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit . . .
Heir Hunter, Solomon Farthing - down on his luck, until, perhaps,
now - is tipped off on this unexplained fortune. Armed with only
the deceased's name and the crumpled pawn ticket, he must find the
dead man's closest living relative if he is to get a cut of this
much-needed cash. But in trawling through the deceased's family
tree, Solomon uncovers a mystery that goes back to 1918 and a group
of eleven soldiers abandoned in a farmhouse billet in France in the
weeks leading up to the armistice. Set between contemporary
Edinburgh and the final brutal days of the First World War as the
soldiers await their orders, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
shows us how the debts of the present can never be settled unless
those of the past have been paid first . . .
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Beau Geste
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P.C. Wren, Percival Christopher Wren
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BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR
THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021
WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling
novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be
forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian 'A
brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer'
Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents
by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war
against his own people, he returns to his village to find his
parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man
returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but
sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose
protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his
back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the
beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they
live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another
continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry
them away... _______________ 'One of the world's most prominent
postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great
compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and
its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals'
Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee 'In book after book,
he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating
societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps
those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully
whole' Maaza Mengiste 'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and
find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a
love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for
fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times
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