Mystery set mainly in LAS VEGAS and LONDON
GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of Before the Dawn (Normandy, American South, Devon)
6th March 2022
We are delighted to be able to offer 3 copies of Before the Dawn by Emma Pass (Normandy, American South, Devon).
UK ONLY
When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again?
It’s 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn’t come often to Devon.
Meanwhile, in America’s deep south, Sam Archer is hatching a plan to raise enough money to get his mother and sister away from his abusive stepfather. Using falsified documents to hide his age, he enlists with the U.S. Army.
Two chance encounters bring Ruby and Sam together from opposite sides of the Atlantic, giving them the chance of love, hope and freedom from their troubled lives. But fate, in the shape of D-Day and Omaha Beach, has other ideas.
When their very lives are at risk, will their promise to wait for one another be what keeps them alive?
3 copies of Before the Dawn to be give away
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Winners:
Debbie Winstanley
Pikaneal
Elle Stafford
The Unkindly Ones
For me it was Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave. Touches on lots of walks of life and how war affects their path in life.
I absolutely loved Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
I’m not sure if I have read any books about the war.
All The Lights We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The boy in the striped pyjamas, gave a totally different view of the situation.
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Prisoners of Geography
I loved Farewell to France by Noel Barber. It really left a lasting impression on me and it’s actually my favourite book.
The Book Thief, the superb debut novel by Markus Zusak. My favourite character Death still haunts me as I wonder what colour the sky will be when he comes for me!
King Rat by James Clavell
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
All Quiet on the Western Front
the boy in the striped pyjamas
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is fantastic!
Schindler’s Ark
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
I think for me it has been children’s books which hit the hardest. The Book Thief packs a powerful punch and the ending of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is just brutal.
For whom the bell tolls
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
The beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was a fantastic, moving book featuring war that stayed with me for a long time after reading it.
The Bridge on the River Kwai. Both the book and the film were very moving.
It has to be The War Horse,its a book that has stuck we me from reading it to my children
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, so beautifully written and possibly my favourite book of all time.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Sophie’s Choice has to be one of the more harrowing war stories ever.
I have not read many war books, but I did read -Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete. On my last holiday. Very interesting it was too.
All Quiet On The Western Front
l found The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne harrowing but l could not put it down
Sophie’s Choice x
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, very moving.
The Paris Library
War Horse – it was good to read it before watching the film too – so very powerful and got my imagination going
Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan. And based on a true story too.
The tattooist of Auschwitz – such a moving and powerful book
Sisters of Resistance by Dennis Turner – the nuns who defied the Nazis – published 2022 ! Brilliant and heart-rending and uplifting too
The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey … based on true events. The Story of Anna who as an American Spy in France during WW2. You really get involved in this story of espionage and the friendships, romance and danger … A must read!
Vietnam, by Christian G. Appy. Oral history told from all sides, an eye opener.
An Evil Mind by Chris Carter
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
I love The War Horse. I saw the film and then read the book.
I read The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris,
wow what a rollercoaster of emotions! This was the most powerful story I have ever read. I recommend everyone reads it.
Fatherland by Karen Schur-Narula
The book that I have chosen is : An Island at War by Deborah Carr which I would highly recommend as its an exceptional book written with compassion and love.
I found Schindler’s List incredibly powerful
Mine’s actually a non-fiction about WW1 – To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild. Really fascinating & I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to understand the background of the war rather than the battles and military angle.
Recently, I found while Paris Sleeps so moving
war horse – a chilling insight into what the soldiers and the animals had to go through
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Poems by Wilfred Owen
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
I have just finished reading The Letter which takes in the Second World War.
The most powerful book about war I have read – The Forgotten by Mary Chamberlain. Also The Hidden by same author.
The Alice Network
War Horse – Michael Morpurgo
The English Patient by by Michael Ondaatje.
The Pianist – Władysław Szpilman
Pippo and Clara by Diana Rosie. An incredible book set in Italy when Mussolini was in power and brother and sister, Pippo and Clara, are torn apart just like their country is by a fascist leader.
War Horse
Under A Blood Red Sky