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The breathtaking sequel to the all-time classic, THE EAGLE HAS
LANDED, reissued for a new generation The greatest World War Two
story of all time - is not over... By the end of 1943, all evidence
of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has
been carefully buried in an unmarked grave in the Norfolk village
of Studley Constable. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are
still alive... In the fourth hard winter of war, British
Intelligence pick up disturbing reports from Heinrich Himmler's
power base in Wewelsburg Castle. The mission is not yet
accomplished. For the Fatherland, the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the
Eagle's return...
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The Fawn
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Magda Szabo; Translated by Len Rix
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"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New
York Times "Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern
Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"
Economist Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and
outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the
success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she
really is and of the person she has been. The only child of an
impoverished aristocrat and a harried music teacher failing to make
ends meet, Eszter grew up poor and painfully aware of it in a
provincial Hungarian town. The feelings of resentment and envy
acquired during her fraught childhood have hardened into an
obsessional hatred for one person, the beautiful, saintly and
pampered Angela, Eszter's former classmate and the wife of the man
who becomes her lover. Set against newly communist 1950s Hungary,
The Fawn embraces the lies and falsehoods people were obliged to
live with in those nightmarish times, and displays Szabo's uncanny
ability to convey how the past can haunt and consume us. Translated
from the Hungarian by Len Rix.
From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me
comes a brilliant new state of the nation novel In the Birmingham
suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the
joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions
about the nature of the horrific war the country has just been
through. Following this family through generations as they navigate
seventy-five years of drastic social change, from wartime nostalgia
and English exceptionalism to the World Cup and coronavirus,
domestic secrets and national myths leave characters and a country
adrift, bewildered and divided. Bournville is the story of who we
are - at our worst, and best. From bestselling author Jonathan Coe
comes a novel of rare humour and humanity, a novel that holds up a
mirror to our past and our present.
Hou-ming, city of ghosts, central China, 1304 - In a vast graveyard
created by Mongol slaughter, three children meet amidst the
decaying ruins and forge a friendship that will determine their
destinies. As the years pass they separate, finding different paths
in life. Yun Shu, cruelly rejected by her father for refusing to
bind her feet, seeks solace as a Daoist nun. Hsiung, enslaved by
the Mongols when just a boy, becomes a ruthless rebel warlord
determined to drive the invaders from his native land. Teng, an
artist and scholar, last son of a once noble family ruined by the
new Mongol dynasty, risks his life to preserve the culture he
reveres. For the three friends to come together, they must endure
war, treachery greed and the casual abuse of power. To win honour
and unexpected love they must overcome dangerous enemies and
conflicts in the depths of their hearts. Each of them, through
clouds of troubles, must earn the Mandate of Heaven.
A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and
suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to
sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate
and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and
drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.
But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she
succeeds - that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and
that one of the survivors is a killer.
From the battlefields of conquest to the Roman mob, Aulus Severus
must use all his wits to survive in this thrilling Roman historical
adventureAD 69: Aulus Caecina Severus has thrown in his lot with
the hedonistic Vitellius, preparing his legions for a gruelling
march over the Alps. Severus leads his army against barbarian
rebellions and the tough mountain passes in his race to reach Italy
before his rival Valens. With the Po valley almost in sight, news
comes that Emperor Galba has been killed in a coup, and that Otho
has been declared Emperor by the Praetorians. But there is no
turning back for Severus: the Rhine legions want their man on the
throne, leading Severus down a dark path. The politics of the court
and the mob is the new battleground, and Severus needs the help of
his wife Salonina and his freedman Totavalas if he wants to
survive. Then stories spread of a new power in the east... Severus
has to decide where his real loyalty lies: to his Emperor, to his
city or to himself? The Sword and the Throne, second in The Aulus
Severus Adventures, is perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Christian
Cameron and Bernard Cornwell
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from
Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding 'Georgina
Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally
at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of
clean and disciplined prose' Guardian The memory of war will stay
with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over rice
fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer
takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring
soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great
photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village
is more than he can bear... He flees to Japan, to lose himself in
the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of
streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he
is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with
him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his
responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep
in his past. The first in Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on
themes of witness, memory and silence, The Gun Room is beautiful,
powerful and utterly devastating.
July 1940: A month after the evacuation of the defeated and
battered Allied forces from Dunkirk, a German invasion of England
threatens. In this thrilling historical "what-if," Prime Minister
Winston Churchill has resigned without naming a successor and
leaders of Parliament are calling for an armistice with Hitler.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of Counter-Espionage at MI5, Adam
Strachan, faces his own daunting task. During a botched burglary,
the fugitive Billy Houston commits murder and discovers his victim
was in possession of Britain's plans to thwart the German invasion.
No patriot, Houston is determined to get the information to the
right people and help bring about a Nazi-run Britain. Strachan soon
finds himself pursuing Houston through England, from London's
blacked-out streets and seedy narrow lanes to the thinly guarded
Channel coast and the Isle of Wight, in a desperate bid to stop the
missing defense plans from falling into German hands. The clock is
ticking, and Britain's immediate future is anything but secure.
Richard Sharpe triumphs in the last battle of the war, only to find
himself in worse peril when charged to recover Napoleon's treasure.
It is 1814. There are rumours that Napoleon is dead, or has run
away, but Sharpe has one last battle to fight before he can lay
down his sword. It is the battle for Toulouse. Little does he know
it will be one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war. But Sharpe's
war is not only the battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's
treasure, Sharpe must discover the unknown enemy who has tried to
frame him - and his revenge is ingenious and devastating. Soldier,
hero, rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born
in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks
by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment
of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season's
splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the
coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local
grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable
matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries
her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly
resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice
comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the
colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about
to end. For the unimaginable is coming - and soon the limits of
progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small town goes
to war.
'The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with
enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.' -
Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies Australian
heiress Sophie Higgs was 'a rose of no-man's land', founding
hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was WW1.
Now, in the 1920s, Sophie's wartime work must be erased so that the
men who returned can find some kind of 'normality'. Sophie is,
however, a graduate of the mysterious Miss Lily's school of charm
and intrigue, and once more she risks her own life as she attempts
to save others still trapped in the turmoil and aftermath of war.
But in this new world, nothing is clear, in politics or in love.
For the role of men has changed too. Torn between the love of three
very different men, Sophie will face her greatest danger yet as she
attempts an impossible journey across the world to save Nigel, Earl
of Shillings - and her beloved Miss Lily. In this sequel to the
bestselling Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies, Jackie French draws us
further into a compelling story that celebrates the passion and
adventure of an unstoppable army of women who changed the world.
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The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Haunted and disillusioned, Graf - who understands the volatile, deadly machine better than anyone - is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and a survivor of a V2 strike. As the rockets devastate London, she joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites.
But at this stage in the war it's hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide.
'Stockwin creates a knotty narrative, writing with authority about
Britain's Georgian navy and the physical world at sea with
intrigue, captivating characters, and deft storytelling. Thunderer
is a suspenseful journey' Quarterdeck 1812. Arriving back in
England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas
Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London he's greeted by the Prince
Regent who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his
present command, insists he be given a bigger ship - HMS Thunderer,
a 74-gun ship of the line. But she's old, and being part of a
standing fleet Kydd's chances of further fame and distinction are
slim indeed. Winning over his new command is fraught with
challenges. A hostile crew, abysmal levels of gunnery and
sail-handling capabilities are intolerable to a fighting captain
like Kydd. With the ship short of men and no incentives to attract
more, can he ever bring Thunderer to a proper state of fighting
preparedness? Kydd is sent to reinforce the Baltic squadron as
Bonaparte's vast army invades Russia. News reaches him of French
victory at the Battle of Borodino. The road to Moscow is now open.
To avert total French victory, Kydd must lead a vital convoy
through battle and tempest to the aid of Britain's last ally.
Praise for Julian Stockwin's Kydd series 'Paints a vivid picture of
life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' Daily Express 'This heady
adventure blends fact and fiction in rich, authoritative detail'
Nautical Magazine 'Fans of fast-paced adventure will get their fill
with this book' Historical Naval Society
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A New
York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the
Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the
Year 'Probably Chabon's greatest, a piece of sustained writing that
will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times 'Entirely sure
footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The
brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form
itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and
versatility of the novel' Observer 'The world, like the Tower of
Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards, was made out of stories,
and it was always on the verge of collapse.' Moonglow unfolds as a
deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful
painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells
stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history
long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner
with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set
explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while
he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in
the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the
war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion
of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia
of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the
twilight of 'the American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into
a single life and a lifetime into a single week.
A new series from bestselling author Kate Thompson. 'Kate
Thompson's wartime novels always strike a chord and Secrets of the
Homefront Girls is no exception. You can almost smell the Yardley
violets drifting over the factory as the girls live lives
complicated by the trials and tribulations of war' My Weekly 'Kate
Thompson's put the lives of women working in the Yardley factory
during the Blitz at the heart of her latest novel' Woman's Hour
Stratford, 1939. Britain may be at war, but on the home front
keeping up morale and keeping up appearances go hand in hand. For
the young women working on the lipstick production line at
Yardley's cosmetics factory, it's business as usual. Headstrong
Renee Gunn is the queen of the lipstick belt - although her cheeky
attitude means she's often in trouble. When Esther, an Austrian
refugee, arrives at Yardley's, it's Renee who takes her under her
wing and teaches her to be a true cockney. But outside of the
factory, things are more complicated. Lily, Renee's older sister,
has suddenly returned home after six years away, and is hiding a
dark secret. Meanwhile Esther is finding life in England more
difficult than expected, and it's not long before Renee finds
herself in trouble, with nowhere to turn. In the face of the Blitz,
the Yardley girls are bound together by friendship and loyalty -
but could the secrets they are hiding be the biggest danger of all?
'A compelling saga set around the tenacious women of the East End'
Daisy Styles 'Kate Thompson is a skillful and humane storyteller
who lights up the sooty face of the old East End with tales full of
drama and human interest.' Annie Murray
Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and,
with Sir Arthur Wellesley, faces the Mahratta Horde. The paths of
treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye. Outnumbered and
outgunned, Wellesley, with a diminished British army, plunges his
men into the white heat of battle. A battle that will make his
reputation, and perhaps Sharpe's too. Soldier, hero, rogue - Sharpe
is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined
the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal
courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th
Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
A daredevil British agent goes behind enemy lines in this WWII-era
spy thriller from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and bestselling
novelist Stephen Hunter. Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent
in the British Army, completing dangerous missions across the
globe. But going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World
War II might be his toughest assignment yet. He must search for a
religious manuscript that doesn't officially exist, one that genius
professor Alan Turing believes may crack a code that could prevent
the deaths of millions and possibly even end the war. St. Florian
isn't the classic British special agent with a stiff upper lip - he
is a swashbuckling, whisky-drinking cynic and thrill-seeker who
resents having to leave Vivien Leigh's bed to set out on his
crucial mission. Despite these proclivities, Basil's superiors know
he's the best man for the job, with enough charm and quick wit to
make his foes lower their guards. Action-packed and bursting with
intrigue (much of which has basis in fact), Basil's War is a
classic espionage thriller. Reviews for Stephen Hunter: 'An
outstanding WWII spy thriller' Nelson DeMille 'One of the best
thriller novelists around' Washington Post 'The front rank of the
thriller novelists' People
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "Redeployment is
hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It's the best thing written
so far on what the war did to people's souls." -Dexter Filkins, The
New York Times Book Review Selected as one of the best books of the
year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The
Washington Post Book World, Amazon, and more Phil Klay's
Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and
what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes
of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival,
the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of
chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs
because they were eating human corpses must learn what it is like
to return to domestic life in suburbia, surrounded by people "who
have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon
died." In "After Action Report", a Lance Corporal seeks expiation
for a killing he didn't commit, in order that his best friend will
be unburdened. A Morturary Affairs Marine tells about his
experiences collecting remains-of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers both. A
chaplain sees his understanding of Christianity, and his ability to
provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a
ferocious Colonel. And in the darkly comic "Money as a Weapons
System", a young Foreign Service Officer is given the absurd task
of helping Iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play
baseball. These stories reveal the intricate combination of
monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that make up a
soldier's daily life at war, and the isolation, remorse, and
despair that can accompany a soldier's homecoming. Redeployment has
become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations
and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a
soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. Written with a
hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, this work marks
Phil Klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation.
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