Doubleday
Wake
Editors' choice
London, November 1920. World War 1 is over, leaving a nation grieving for lost loved ones, many of whom have…
The Winter People
Literary thriller, ghost story, disturbing tale of family bonds and dark deeds, historical novel – all of these apply to…
Diamond
1890s, England. Eight-year-old Ellen-Jane Potts’ family is very poor. It’s a struggle to make ends meet, particularly as her father…
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
Editors' choice
London, 1914. It is Alfie Summerfield’s fifth birthday, and news has just broken that fighting has started in France. World…
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
The Jazz Age. Bootleggers. Gangsters. Corruption. Crime. Tammany Hall. All these ingredients have been used in novels many times, but…
Wake
Wake is a potentially poignant and gripping novel that follows three families whose loved ones served in the Great War.…
The Unreturning Army: A Field Gunner in Flanders 1917-1918
This is a memoir and series of letters, edited by his son, that Huntly Gordon sent from the Allied front-line…
Belle Cora
Editors' choice
Having just survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the elderly and respectable Mrs Andersen decides it’s time to…
If I Close my Eyes Now
As Yuri Gagarin transmits from space, and indelibly changes our view of ourselves, two young boys bunking off school in…
Dissident Gardens
In Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem presents 20th-century New York in a sweeping tale of strong women, ideals and disappointments. Rose…
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