Tag: war

Just before she dies, the writer’s mother leaves her with a difficult secret. She also leaves her with an urge to retrieve the past. After years of trawling through family archives, the writer realises how difficult, if not impossible, that task is. However, during this process, she uncovers something unexpected.

Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie Matters’ life has always been a fight for survival. He miraculously emerges unscathed from the Blitz. But there’s no telling when the next bomb will fall, and whether it will be the one to end his life. Molly Wakefield’s dreams of a joyful homecoming are all she’s had to hold on to after being evacuated to the countryside five years before.

Evan Smoak is a lone wolf operator. It goes with the territory for a former off-the- books government assassin. He certainly can’t afford to go up against one of the few people he likes and trusts in this world.

In Clive Cussler's Ghost, soldier Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back in an explosive new instalment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

South Africa, 1899 - the smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal is about to burst into flame. War is coming and no one can prevent it. Colonel Penrod Ballantyne, hero of Abu Klea and Omdurman, is sent to Mafeking, 'the place of stones', to recruit and train men for the fighting ahead.

An enthralling and ferociously funny reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. Written by Booker Prize-shortlisted Percival Everett, his novel Erasure is now released as the critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning film American Fiction, and James is set to be the literary event of 2024.

The global economic backdrop continues to improve gradually but great amounts of uncertainty remain. While most of the major central banks are now likely at the peak of their rate hiking cycles, inflation remains sticky and sustained high levels of interest rates are having a dampening impact on economic growth.

An epic, stunning novel about one family’s search for the true meaning of home in the wake of disaster, from the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Once again, Christy Lefteri has crafted a novel which is intimate and epic, sweeping and delicate.