Showing results for "Land Fictions" in 20th Century

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of...

Een dochter van een Holocaust-overlevende en een Amsterdamse vrouw groeit op in een verscheurd gezin en zoekt wereldwijd naar haar eigen identiteit en bestemming. Een op waarheid gebaseerd familieverhaal.

Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but Meg is desperate for more. She finds comfort in her best friend, Kath, and Lanky Lawson, who is more of a father figure to her than her own. Her true source of hope though, is Lanky’s son, Jack, who she loves and hopes to marry one day. However, as war looms on the horizon and the world is thrown into chaos, Meg realises that the only thing she can really count on is the land she loves.

Zwischen politischen Umbrüchen und persönlichem Glück – die Breitenbachs stehen vor großen Herausforderungen. Ein neuer Band der erfolgreichen Familiensaga von Bestsellerautorin Mina Baites. Berlin, 1910. Politische Konflikte und die rebellierende Arbeiterbewegung stellen Felix Breitenbach vor große Herausforderungen. Der neue Geschäftsleiter von Schuherzeugung Breitenbach & Sohn und seine Schwestern müssen das renommierte Unternehmen den sich verändernden Gesellschaftsnormen anpassen. Doch dann erleidet Isa einen schweren Unfall, der das Leben der ganzen Familie für immer verändert.

Brought to you by Penguin. THREE LOST SOULS. A LONG-BURIED SECRET. THE TRUTH THAT COULD SET THEM FREE... ----- London, 1915: Tarot reader Katerina is trying to hold her life together amid the wartime chaos. When she opens a bakery that offers divination alongside sweet treats, she is hailed as a...

Essex 1941. Unhappy with life at home with her privileged family, Hannah Austen-Bagshaw runs away to join the Land Girls Army, carrying with her a dark and terrible secret. Life on the farm is tough, but when Hannah meets handsome working-class flight lieutenant Jack, they form an immediate friendship. But unbeknownst to Jack, Hannah is sheltering a young German pilot who has crash landed in a nearby field. Torn between her duty and her humanity, Hannah knows she risks being arrested as a traitor, but she cannot see the young pilot suffer.

Brought to you by Penguin. The village of Churchwood has never needed The Wartime Bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at the worst possible time, can Alice, Kate and Naomi pull together to keep spirits high? Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm...

March, 1914. When talented artist Isobel embarks on a journey to Egypt, it's to reunite her best friend, Alice, with her husband, Wilfred—and to use the stunning sights of Cairo as inspiration for her own paintings. A whirlwind romance was the last thing she expected, but when Isobel meets Wilfred's handsome brother, Edward, neither can deny the strong connection between them—especially when unexpected tragedy strikes, leaving them all reeling. Just as they get to grips with their grief, WW1 erupts, and the lovers are forced to separate. 

Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg muss sich die jung verwitwete Ivory in Kenia großen Herausforderungen stellen. Denn ihre Entscheidung für einen neuen Mann an ihrer Seite sorgt für Aufruhr in der Gesellschaft und Ablehnung seitens ihrer Familie. Dennoch ist Ivy mit ihrem Mann und ihren kleinen Töchtern auf Edgecumbe Farm glücklich. Bis eines Tages ein Fremder anreist und Anspruch auf das Anwesen erhebt. Völlig mittellos und begleitet von der tiefen Sorge um ihre älteste Tochter muss Ivy mit ihrer Familie nach Nairobi übersiedeln.

Judith og Peter når efter en hård og dramatisk rejse endelig til det nye Israel. Målet for de to jødiske børns drømme. Endelig.

A moving and dramatic World War II land girl saga by the author of Lily's War and Bobby's War. For readers of Nancy Revell and Annie Groves. It's 1942 and at nineteen years old Hannah Compton has the world at her feet. But with World War II raging, the country is in turmoil, and Hannah decides...

El trayecto de Fortaleza y su madre es casi el mismo viaje de desolación, destrucción y angustia en una España destruida por la guerra. España es, en 1939, un país sepultado por el odio, la venganza y la muerte donde no era raro ver cadáveres en las cunetas. La protagonista saldrá en busca de justicia, acosada por la angustia y el dolor, pero descubrirá que el amor tiene un gran poder de redención. Gente que considera su enemiga le ayudará en este duro viaje, en el que todos han perdido algo o a alguien. La historia de cada uno de nosotros, escrita desde el corazón.

Con El País de las Lágrimas Mario Escobar muestra una línea literaria completamente diferente a la que nos tenía acostumbrados. Estamos ante una prosa llena de lirismo y, sobre todo, ante una historia que, desde la sencillez, plasma de forma brillante y descarnada el dolor de una mujer derrotada pero que, sacando fuerzas de flaqueza, sigue adelante a pesar de que palpa desde el principio la magnitud de la tragedia. Mario Escobar deja sobre la mesa su aportación a la novelística sobre la Guerra Civil con una obra que vale la pena conservar en la memoria....