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GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of The Stolen Baby, set in WW2 PLYMOUTH
9th January 2022
We are delighted to offer 3 copies of The Stolen Baby by Diney Costeloe, set in WW2 Plymouth.
A Second World War novel from best-selling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story.
Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun to fall through the night sky when they realise their infant son, Freddie, has been forgotten in the rush, left to sleep in his crib. Terrified, Vera, his young mother, races to find him and bring him to safety.
The next morning, air raid warden David Shawbrook returns from his watch to find the shelter pulverised, and his family seemingly all dead. Dirty footprints inside their home betray the looters who have rifled through the house.
Meanwhile, Maggie waits alone for her husband. Since the death of her infant son, she passes her days at home with neither joy nor aim. But not this morning. For this morning her husband has brought home a child, found abandoned in the aftermath of the terrible raid – a child she is sure is the one she held in her arms so many months before.
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Winners:
Jeanette1979
PortandStilton
Korny12345
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
I really enjoyed Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave. How people’s lives are turned upside down and new skills learned due to being thrown into the war effort.
My favourite is As the Crow Flies. Set across decades but including the Second World War.
Goodnight Mr Tom, beautiful story
my favourite is Farewell to France by Noel Barber
My favourite is The Ration Book Christmas by Jean Fullerton
Goodnight Mr. Tom one of my favourites
The most memorable was “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas”. Very harrowing but has stuck in my mind ever since.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Jackdaws by Ken Follett
Catch-22
The Kindly Ones
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Absolutely heartbreaking
My favourite novel set in WW2 is The Little Ship by Margaret Mahew which tells the story of the little boats which went to Dunkirk
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
It has to be Goodnight Mr Tom such a great read.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
An Island at War by Deborah Carr
Goodnight Mr Tom
Wartime with the Cornish Girls.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
A tie between The Book Thief and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Not sure enjoyed is quite the right word but both have had a lasting impact on me.
I’ve always loved Goodnight Mr Tom. I’m reading it with my class now because their topic is WW2 and I still well up at the sad bits.
Spies by Michael Frayn
For me it has to be The Book Thief. Such a clever and moving story.
Goodnight Mister Tom
COMMENT
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Captain Corellis Mandolin is my favourite book set in WW2
The English Patient
Goodnight Mister Tom
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak but as a child I loved The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
One of my favourite ones is: “Goodnight Mr Tom”
I really enjoyed All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete By Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Goodnight mister Tom is my all time favourite
The Tattooist Of Aushwitz
Atonement is the best ever
All The Light We Cannot See
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Grafton Girls by Annie Groves
the paris library
The last messenger by Jonathan Mark
Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
‘Girls in tin hats’ by Annie Murray is a brilliant novel
I enjoyed The Tattooist Of Auschwitz
The Tattooist Of Aushwitz as a good one.
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Yellow Bird Sings
Jennifer Rosner
The Cliffehaven Series by Ellie Dean are a brilliant set of books, set in WWII. Highly recommend.
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
Goodnight Mister Tom, it was my daughters set reading book such a beautiful read if you have a big box of tissues.
I love books set in WWII but one I recently enjoyed was The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff.
Carrie’s War xx
There are so many, but looking at my “read” list from last year my pick is Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. Stunning and joyous by the end.
Boy in the striped pajamas. As soon as he got into the prison camp and donned the pjs you knew it wasn’t going to have a good ending. Heartbreaking
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is my favourite. Read it before watching the film and the book is definitely better
The tattooist of Auschwitz
My favourite book set in World War II would be Edward Parnell’s ‘The Listeners’.
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
wives of war
there is nothing like a true story perfect
I would like to share a trilogy of books, the final part I have yet to read, but at over 800 pages each, from the first two episodes, I just know that this story is going to resonate with me for a long time to come and I will never forget reading it.
‘The Sturmtaucher Trilogy’ by Alan Jones
Part One – The Gathering Storm
Part Two – Flight Of The Shearwater
Part Three – The Turn Of The Tide
The Great Darkness by Jim Kelly
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
My favourite WW2 book is The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey, it’s about an American Spy in Nazi occupied France, it had me totally gripped.
Julie Summers Jambusters was a fabulous informative read.
Ginny Cooper’s War – Lawson McDowell
storyteller by Jodi piccoult.
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Lissa Evans’ fabulous ‘Their Finest Hour and A Half’ (also a great film!)
My favourite WW2 book is Lissa Evans’ fabulous ‘Their Finest Hour and a Half’ (also a great film) – a close second is Sarah Waters’ amazing book ‘Nightwatch’ which I also love.
The boy in the stripped pyjamas ! The book is by far superior to the film
I love one I read years ago at school. Carrie’s War.
Just finished “The Occupation” Deborah Swift. Set in Jersey and France in WW2, Fantastic Book, hard too put down
The Tattooist Of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. A true love story as told by a survivor of the Holocaust.
My favourite ww2 novel is the storyteller by Jodi piccoult. For me it humanised an inhumane time
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Tattooist of Auschwitz!
Hello, my favourite book set in WW2 is ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ by Judith Kerr. It is very moving.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Goodnight Mister Tom
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris. A book I often recommend and one of my all time favourites.
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
Charlotte Grey
I currently reading Night over Water by Ken Follet. It has quickly become my favourite book about the period. .
loved ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ and the film was not too bad eiter
I’ve read a few lately as I’ve been interested in the topic. I really enjoyed The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Catch 22
I know they’re fairly old books, but I’ve always loved the Adams Family series by Mary Jane Staples
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce. A great read!
Fatherland by Karen Schur-Nadela
Has to be All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr! I was totally enthralled & captivated!
I enjoy many World War 2 books, especially ones about female French Resistance fighters…I think I may have been one in a previous existence!
I have read so many it is hard to say. I did enjoy Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulkes
Last year I read The Clockmaker’s Wife, by Daisy Wood, and it was one of only a handful of books I rated 5 star.
A Place Called Freedom (Ken Follett)
All the light we cannot see, by Anthony Doerr
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society x