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The four Grace sisters love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters never seem to run out of conversation, jokes, and pleasant ways to pass the time together. They truly are the happiest of families. That is, until Aunt Rona comes to town. Rona intends to stay with the Graces indefinitely, and her meddlesome attitude immediately sets the sisters' teeth on edge. Throw in another unexpected houseguest, some potential suitors and a case of mistaken intentions, and the members of the Grace family suddenly find themselves quite out of their element.

'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' Guardian Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two...

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent.

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German...

It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub Szapiro commands respect, revered as a hero by the Jewish community. Outside, he instills fear as he muscles through Warsaw as enforcer for a powerful crime lord. Murder and intimidation have their rewards. He revels in luxury, spends lavishly, and indulges in all the pleasures that barbarity offers. For a man battling to be king of the underworld, life is good. Especially when it’s a frightening time to be alive.

J. D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American World War II draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war - from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. 

Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university’s invitation. Although he is distant at first, Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul 60 years before, and the dark realities that continue to haunt him.

'I know,' he says, 'too much. You'll learn to be too much, too.' Then, gently, 'I think it might help.' When Julia flees her unhappy marriage for the handsome tailor Eve Perret, she expects her life from now on will be a challenge, not least because the year is 1911. They leave everything behind...

At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello...

Утром 22 июня 1941 года молодой лётчик летит на биплане У-2 к границе, чтобы передать приказ командующего Западным военным округом генерала Павлова. Это война? Или провокация? Ответа нет, связь потеряна, этим утром никто ничего не знает. Рушатся военные планы, совершают внезапный поворот человеческие жизни.

Året är 1944 och fronten närmar sig den estniska staden Tartu. Urmakaren Rein Aule tvingas bryta fyra års tystnad för sin hustru Liina: han har i hemlighet förbättrat en tysk krypteringsmaskin, och nu är han en jagad man. Tre stormakter vill till varje pris kontrollera hans unika kunskap...

Deutschland 1945, der Krieg hat viele Träume zerstört. Auch die von drei Freundinnen in Tübingen: Helene will Ärztin werden, Charlotte hatte von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin geträumt, und Eleonore will einfach an der Seite eines geliebten Mannes ein gutes Leben führen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass sie von dem marokkanischen Besatzungssoldaten Amir schwanger ist, steht sie vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Ihre Freundin Eleonore hat dasselbe Problem. Der Roman erzählt kenntnisreich eine Geschichte von Aufbruch, Verleugnung und Enttäuschung. Aber auch von Hoffnung und Zuversicht.

Der Roman erzählt vom Leben in einer deutschen Stadt in den Jahren von 1920 bis 1934 am Beispiel der Geschicke von fünf Familien, die ganz unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Milieus repräsentieren. Im Vordergrund die Kinder, sowohl des klassenbewussten, politisch engagierten Arbeiters als auch des großbürgerlichen jüdischen Bankiers. Daneben die des liberalen, konfessionslosen intellektuellen Arztes, des faschistischen Kleinbürgers und schließlich des verarmten ostjüdischen Einwanderers.

Eine junge Frau kämpft um ihren Tulpenhof, ihre Familie und die Liebe – der neue bewegende Roman von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Kerstin Lange Holland, 1940. Die Familie de Boer bewirtschaftet seit Generationen einen Tulpenhof. Ihr ganzer Stolz ist die legendäre Sorte »Kaiserblut«. Als deutsche Soldaten den Hof besetzen, zerbricht die Welt der 24-jährigen Femke. Ihr eigener Bruder kollaboriert mit den Besatzern, beide Eltern sind krank.

Quelque part en Dordogne. François, apiculteur, est un coeur simple, une pâte d’homme. Il parle à ses abeilles dans une langue connue de lui seul et possède une sorte de fluide, comme parfois les êtres sans colère et pleins d’innocence, qui a fait de lui guérisseur. Depuis que sa femme a mystérieusement disparu, il élève seul son fils, Alban. Le petit garçon, en butte à l’hostilité de nombreux villageois, a trouvé l’affection qui lui manque auprès d’une famille de réfugiés espagnols, dont les enfants sont devenus ses amis.

Das mitreißende Finale der historischen Saga von Bestsellerautorin Sibel Daniel über Widerstand, Verrat und die Kraft der Liebe in den dunkelsten Stunden Europas Stockholm, 1944. Johanna von Fehrsburg versucht, ihrer Tochter Leah im neutralen Schweden ein sicheres Leben zu ermöglichen. An ihrer Seite ist Sven – und mit ihm die Hoffnung auf eine Zukunft fern von Krieg und Angst.

Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May...

Lancaster, 1943. As the war rages on, the Red Cross girls will do whatever it takes to bring their boys home. But can they find happiness in such troubling times? When Livvy receives her orders for war work, she’s desperate for a new beginning. Most of her friends have been sent to munitions factories, so she is delighted to be working for the Red Cross, who are making secret packages that can help prisoners of war escape.

Set in 1945 between Hitler's death and Hiroshima, The Second Child is a satirical thriller about one young woman's plot to outsmart the supreme dictators in a world on fire. From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The First Friend. You can't choose your family, but you can choose...

Defeat is a moment; victory is a legacy. In the blistering heat of the North African desert, the air crackles with tension as the unrelenting Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, closes in on the beleaguered forces of the Allied troops. Private John ‘Hawkeye’ Sharratt, a battle-sharpened soldier...