John Boyne
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
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In a small parish in West Cork in 1945, Catherine Goggin, aged just 16, is pregnant and unmarried and with the intolerance and bigotry of ...Read Review
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
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After seven-year-old Pierrot is orphaned, he is sent to live with his aunt Beatrix, leaving behind his home in Paris and his Jewish ...Read Review
A History of Loneliness
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Odran Yates narrates the story of his life in Ireland. As a young boy in the early 1960s through to the present day ...Read Review
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
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London, 1914. It is Alfie Summerfield’s fifth birthday, and news has just broken that fighting has started in France. World War I is ...Read Review
This House is Haunted
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Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving, on a whim she moves ...Read Review
The Absolutist
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John Boyne is a consummate storyteller, and in his new novel he doesn’t disappoint. You might think there was little more to ...Read Review
The House of Special Purpose
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In this so-called ‘novel of the Romanovs’, John Boyne does what he has done so successfully in his previous novels, The Boy in ...Read Review
The House of Special Purpose
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When Georgy Jachmenev inadvertently stops a bullet meant for the Tsar’s uncle, his life is changed forever. It is 1916 and the 17-year-old ...Read Review
Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile enters the Royal Navy in 1787 in the same way as many other 18th-century lower-class English citizens, given the choice ...Read Review
Mutiny on the Bounty
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AdventureBiographical FictionNautical
In December 1787, a fourteen-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, is arrested in Portsmouth for picking the pocket of a mysterious Frenchman. Due to his ...Read Review
