- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever....
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1 onwards
Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans’ grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): post 1987
Sharon McKay sets her new novel in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy. Eddi McCandry...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1926
With war looming, she must find a safe place to call home… England, 1926 Eight-year-old Mirren has grown up in the shadow of the Great War. When a tragic accident leaves her orphaned, she is sent to live with...
War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
- Location(s): Tuscany, Val d'Orcia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
At the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman – born in England, married to an Italian –...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a remote Scottish island, fourteen-year-old Max’s life changes forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life and finding it hard to adapt in school, he begins to notice...
Warleggan: A Novel of 1792-1793 (Poldark Book 4)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family’s financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth’s old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved...
- Location(s): London, Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century (second half)
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in...
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