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‘The Wartime Book Club’ Shows the Power of Books
KATE THOMPSON is an award-winning journalist and author whose novels include The Little Wartime Library and Secrets of the Lavender Girls.
Her latest novel, The Wartime Book Club is a historical fiction novel that is inspired by the true events of the resistance in Jersey during the German occupation in World War II. AKINA HANSEN writes.
The island of Jersey in the English Channel is a scenic place surrounded by glistening blue sea and filled with green ...
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Features
I really didn’t know much about the details of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life before reading his book, Be Useful: ...
A bright new star among the Nordic Noir constellation, PASCAL ENGMAN is ‘the bestselling Swedish author in the ...
Dip into the first book in the ‘Ghostwriter Series’, The Busy Body, from KEMPER DONOVAN that features a very nosy ...
ADELE DUMONT is an Australian writer and critic. Her memoir The Pulling is an intimate and moving book that ...
The powerful impacts of climate breakdown are already being felt by the natural world, driving many species ...
Nestled in the heart of Rome, at the base of the Spanish steps, the Keats-Shelley House stands as a living ...
You’ve probably been looking for an escape these past few months, and what better escape than the wonderful world ...
Starting life as a bookseller, BENNY AGIUS has worked with books in shops and in publishing for over 45 years. ...
A murdered judge. Two missing lawyers. Take a dip in LEE CHRISTINE's latest book, Glenrock.
ABOUT THE ...
Linda Margolin Royal's novel, The Star on the Grave, was inspired by Chiune Sugihara, and the thousands of people ...
Intuition has saved lives and averted disasters, and it also lies behind countless innovative decisions.
In JOEL ...
KAYLA ITSINES is the co-founder of Sweat and, as head trainer, makes it her mission to provide women with the ...
With his new book, Silence in her Eyes, ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA has moved to a bold new direction with a ...
Why can’t I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I’m missing out? Why can’t I remember why I walked into ...
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common ...
Parenting educator and mum-of-four GEN MUIR has helped thousands of families dealing with strong emotions and ...
Melinda Ham is an award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent. Her book, The Lucky Ones, contains ...
Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths is MATTHEW LAMB’s first book in a two-part biography of the lauded Australian ...
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Reviews
Devotees of Grimm’s fairytales will recognise the title of this book as the first line of ‘Hansel and Gretel’. In ...
In the not-too-distant future, when this novel is set, the lessons learned from our last pandemic are applied to a ...
In a bitter winter, at the end of the first decade of the 1600s, a servant girl escapes through a gap in the wall ...
Hailed as a remarkable new literary talent, Sarah Sasson has written a debut novel rich with humanity and ...
In an unnamed village, in an unnamed country, war ravages the populace. Possibly the author intended this ...
Fascinated by reading about the Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii in 1927, this author determined to make it ...
Oh my, what a roller-coaster. This book just about has it all: medical drama, best friends to lovers trope, missed ...
In recent years there’s been a spate of novels featuring protagonists with various neurodevelopmental disorders. ...
Towards the end of Days of Innocence and Wonder the narrator says, ‘I suppose we’re all looking for somewhere safe ...
Come and Get It follows the intertwining stories of young women at the University of Arkansas. Millie is an RA ...
Andy is 35 years old and always thought his life would look a lot different than it is. He is a comedian who ...
We first meet Saya through a damning German newspaper article presuming her guilty of arson and murder because of ...
His name is Arthur, but no one calls him that. He’s Q, or QC, which stands for quantum cryptographer, his ...
Ravensong is the second book in T J Klune’s ‘Green Creek’ series. It picks up immediately after the events of the ...
A Study in Drowning opens with one of the most mystical first lines I’ve ever read, and it only gets better from ...
Throne of the Fallen is the debut adult novel from fantasy author Kerri Maniscalco and it is an action-packed ...
This book is the long-awaited follow up to John Connolly’s fantasy tale The Book of Lost Things, although it can ...
No, this is not a book about barristers set in the legal fraternity. It is, instead, about a death during a circus ...
Nagare Kamogawa and his daughter, Koishi, own a restaurant and detective agency in Kyoto. The restaurant is ...
It’s the bad old days of policing in Queensland. Corruption is rife. Another murder – on top of five they’re ...
Hector Harrow is the concierge of Cavengreen Hotel, a five-star establishment in the English county of West ...
The Professor is a mystery novel that takes place on a college campus where the students know everything (via ...
University friends, Max, Annie, Dominic, Kira and Jim have stayed friends for 20 years, each of them taking ...
This debut delves into the complex question of whether a person should be culpable for what they might do while ...
Think of your great-grandparents, then go back in time hundreds of generations. We modern Homo sapiens are more ...
Isaacson’s biography of Musk is very similar to that of Steve Jobs. It's complete with stark typography and its ...
The Fleming Estate asked Shakespeare to write this biography. He had unfettered access to previously unseen papers ...
Browse through the contents pages of Memoir of My Former Self and pick a title that appeals. I did … and A Life of ...
Everyone makes mistakes. Dawn French wants the reader to understand that she’s no different to us in that regard. ...
It took a concerted effort by many for Minnie to come to fruition, a story in itself.
The author, a Dutch ...
Readers abreast of current affairs will recognise the author’s name as the whistleblower who released files ...
Clementine Ford is an activist, feminist and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. Her ...
On Disinformation is a pleasure to hold simply as an object. It’s a small book, the cover only about half the ...
Stoic philosophy began almost two millennia ago with four personal precepts: courage, self-discipline, justice and ...
Varoufakis, a former finance minister for Greece and now an academic and speaker on all things economics, contends ...
This is the love story of Pericles and Aspasia.
About Pericles we know a great deal. He was born in 495 BCE and ...
This South American novel is a timeless mix of social and magical realism. It’s set relatively recently, but the ...
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