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A Thunderous Whisper

A Thunderous Whisper
  • Author(s): Christina Diaz Gonzalez
  • Location(s): Guernica
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he’s been off fighting in Spain’s Civil War,...

A Train in Winter

A Train in Winter
  • Author(s): Caroline Moorhead
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 - early 1940s

230 women from the French Resistance were captured, and taken to on a train to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. The first part chroncles the collapse of Vichy France, early 1940s, how the Nazis invaded Paris. It then...

About a Boy

About a Boy
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in London in the 90s, this is Hornby at full throttle. Will is in his mid 30s, comfortably well off and no children by choice. His discovery that he can meet women through single-parent groups allows him access...

All That Man Is

All That Man Is
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving – in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside...

Arctic Summer

Arctic Summer
  • Author(s): Damon Galgut
  • Location(s): Alexandria, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India....

Ashenden

Ashenden
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wilhide
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, Various

Spring 2010, and when Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house, set in acres of English countryside, is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep...

Atonement

Atonement
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dunkirk, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935 onwards

13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the...

Before I Met You

Before I Met You
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early and late 20th Century

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Over half a century...

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Bridget Jones’s Diary
  • Author(s): Helen Fielding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

An entertaining meander through the life of 30 something Bridget, every aspect is explored and laid bare. Comical, wry and very entertaing, this became a cultural icon in its own right.

Call it Dog

Call it Dog
  • Author(s): Marli Roode
  • Location(s): Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jo returns to South Africa after ten years in the UK to cover the riots sweeping the Jo’burg township of Alex. Nico, her estranged Afrikaner father, reappears and asks her to help prove his innocence in the murder of...

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