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GIVEAWAY! – 5 copies of The Rose Code, historical novel set in Bletchley Park and London
21st March 2021
We are delighted to be able to offer 5 copies of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, an historical novel set in Bletchley Park and London.
UK ONLY
If you loved The Crown, don’t miss this riveting historical novel!
1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire.
Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.
Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses – but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, working to translate decoded enemy secrets. Self-made Mab masters the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and the poverty of her East-End London upbringing. And shy local girl Beth is the outsider who trains as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts.
1947, London.
Seven years after they first meet, on the eve of the royal wedding between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, disaster threatens. Osla, Mab and Beth are estranged, their friendship torn apart by secrets and betrayal. Yet now they must race against the clock to crack one final code together, before it’s too late, for them and for their country.
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The winners are:
LeanFun
Emma Brown
Anne Hughes
lapsupchung
Margaret Gallagher
I enjoyed Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden, it left a lasting impression on me.
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
One Last Summer by Catrin Collier
A Sister’s Courage by Molly Green
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
The Waterway Girls by Milly Adams
Nella Last’s War, Dear Mrs Bird and Goodnight Mr Tom are high up on my list of favourite books set in WW2. I don’t think I could narrow it down any further!
franci’s war by Franci Rabinek Epstein
Sarah Waters – The Night Watch.
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Murder On The Home Front by Molly Lefebure
So many as a wealth of novels and settings and styles! A memorable read was The Book Thief-for it’s unusual narrator-Death-and a different view of life in Germany.
Dear Mrs Bird – A J Pearce
‘All the light we cannot see’, by Anthony Doerr
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Alice Network
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
Jacqueline Winspear The American Agent
Everyone brave is forgiven by Chris Cleave
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan. Based on a true story. Italy towards the end of WW2.
I have never read a novel set in ww2 but will take some recomendations fro the other comments
The Reader, great film too
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This book will always stay with me.
I have never read a WW2 novel, but I would really like to win this one. The work undertaken at Bletchley Park was so important to our freedom, we owe a debt of deep gratitude to all of those who helped and sacrificed their lives to win the war.
The book thief!
The older I get the more the book horrifies me and stays with me.
the book thief love it!
Surviving the war
My favourite novel set in ww2 is The Book Thief
“Eye of the Needle” by Ken Follett
Michelle Magorian: “Goodnight Mister Tom”
Goodnight Mr Tom. It makes me cry every time I read it.
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett.
I loved the Alice network
Potato peel society
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
The End of the Affaire by Graham Greene
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
The Last Correspondant by Soraya M Lane, a wonderful story.
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein – pure joy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Diary of Anna Frank
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
I loved the The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society! Something a bit different.
I enjoyed The English Patient
Goodnight Mister Tom is my favourite book
I loved Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, such a sad book made even sadder by what happened to the author.
The Cazelet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
There have been some lovely WWII books about just recently, so choosing just one was really difficult.
Because of the different perspectives and locations, I think that this one has to get my vote
‘The German Girl’ by Lily Graham.
So many of my fellow bloggers have received a copy of ‘The Rose Code’ in their mailbox this week, I have been quite jealous!
Thanks for the opportunity 🙂 Yvonne
Goodnight Mister Tom
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kieran
The diaries of Anne frank
The Information officer by Mark Mills set in Malta in 1942. Malta is a favourite place to visit so I was able to visualise places in it.
Hello, my favourite WW2 book is ‘The Clippie Girls’ by Margaret Dickinson. It is about a family of women in Sheffield where most of them work on the trams there. I found it really enjoyable. It was engaging and I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next!
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I’ve read and loved a lot of books set in WW2 but my favourite is Fatherland by Karen Schur-Narula which gave me real insight into how and why so many people, especially younger ones, became such ardent supporters of Nazi culture.
Restless by I think William Boyd.
I loved Deborah Lawrenson’s The Sea Garden. Set in Porquerolles, London and Provence it’s a beautifully written tale of secrets, the French Resistance – and gardening!
Recently read The Last Correspondant by Soraya M Lane, a story of a woman journalist in war-torn France, totally enthralling and had me gripped.
The Book Thief, so good I’ve read it several times.
Ginny Cooper’s War by Lawson McDowell set in America
Ginny Cooper’s War – Lawson McDowell set in America
Under a wartime sky by liz Trenow – thoroughly enjoyed and recommend to all
CATCH- 22 Is epic too
So many authors to choose from but any of the sagas by Mary Wood, Elaine Everest or Jean Fullerton.
One of my favourite WW2 books (of many!) is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So intriguing, I could not put it down!
Incidentally, one of my former headteachers worked at Bletchley Park! She spoke fluent German and Russian. We knew nothing of any of this until she died & it was revealed at her funeral!
Tom Palmers After the War was a brilliant read for my class
Echoland: Book 1 of the WW2 spy series set in neutral Ireland
by Joe Joyce
I love Nancy Revell’s Shipyard Girls series, about a group of female welders in a Sunderland shipyard during WW2.
I enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
So many to choose from but I think Kjell Ola Dahl’s The Courier set in Sweden. Excellent.
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson is probably my favourite as the novel is set in Italy and I enjoyed seeing the Italian perspective. It’s not a country where a great deal of WWII fiction is set and I learnt a lot. .
The Night Portrait
Code Name Verity
I haven’t read many novels set in WW2 so I don’t really have a favourite but I did enjoy The G.I. Bride by Eileen Ramsay, which is set in Truro, Cornwall around the time of the Blitz.