First World War fiction

';A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES,BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events,perfect for fans of Maggie OFarrell and Helen Dunmore.

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ';This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war'The Times A touching novel of love and lossSunday TimesFor fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz andWhere The Crawdads Singcomes a moving story, inspired by real events, about how hope and love will prevail against all odds.

A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga from the acclaimed author of The Land Girls.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRALIn Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice.

«Este niño tiene el corazón en forma de cabeza de lobo, un corazón oscuro como el de los asesinos».

'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.

One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear.

Nominated for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction, and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

Torn between love and duty.

AS SEEN ON BBC ONE on 11 November - the commemoration of the Unknown Warrior with Huw Edwards and Anna HopeThe International prize-winning bestseller and Simon Mayo bookclub pick'Powerful and humane' SADIE JONES____________Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives:Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak.

_______________________________________A sweeping love story told through letters, spanning two continents and two world wars.

Rosy Weeks works for a local horse trainer at a once-successful stable, now fallen on hard times.

In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth.

'A tour de force of writing and intelligence' A.

In this powerful sequel to PACKARDS, much loved author Patricia Burns returns to the London department store, bringing its people and its wartime challenges expertly to life.

Summer of 1911.

When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish - to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground.

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.

'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See.

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War.

A must read for fans of Katie Flynn, Fiona Valpy and Kristin Hannah - this is an enthralling and gripping romantic adventure from the multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples.

As WWI begins, no family, including the Neylers, will be left untouched, and by the time the war finally finishes, nothing will ever be the same againTed and Tina Neyler's children are growing up, doomed to be drawn into the Great War: Frank will be scarred forever by one terrible day in the trenches, while Louis, the charming optimist, returns unscathed from the war to find that his wife and mistress have met up and that his misdemeanours are inexorably catching up with him.

Liverpool.

Sometimes hope is all you need.

The Great War changes everything.

'ORIGINAL AND ENTHRALLING' Guardian'AFFECTING AND TENDER' The Times'COMPLETELY ENCHANTING' Penny Vincenzi Elizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran.

In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of theLusitaniain such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed shipand in Winston Churchills ultra-secret lair, Room 40as the ineluctable forces of history converge.

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.

'GLORY is as near to a British 'War and Peace' as any contemporary novelist is likely to come' SPECTATOR'Heart-wrenching novel of loss, love and survival' WOMAN & HOMEA poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli.

The million copy internationally bestselling novel of one family and the devastating effects of the First World War.

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play.

From the number one bestselling author of Who Dares Wins.

Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Kristin Hannah and Fiona Valpy, this is an emotional and uplifting romantic saga set in WW1 from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples.

For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.

** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, WINNER OF 7 BAFTAS AND 4 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE**Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written.

Oskar Voxlauer is in flight from his past - from his bourgeois Austrian upbringing; from horrific memories of fighting on the Italian Front in 1917; and from the twenty years he has spent in the Ukraine watching his Bolshevik ideals crumble and the physical decline of the woman who taught him about love.

'A vivid and engrossing historical novel' Daily TelegraphSpanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, Mansfield follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' which she felt the times demanded.

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was the winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2015 and the HWA 2015 Debut Crown Award.

'The first in an effervescent new mystery series.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD & A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKFOR FANS OF ATONEMENT, BIRDSONG, IN MEMORIAM AND ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE'A book that won't leave your fingernails intact.

Let much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris take you back in time with this beautifully moving family saga of love, life and trauma.

Spring 1916, and three great armies - French, British and, on the other side of the wire, German - are locked in a stalemate of mud and blood on Europe's Western Front.

**Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman.

A HEARTWARMING AND UPLIFTING TALE FOR FANS OF CATHERINE COOKSON AND LESLEY PEARSE On the dark, rough streets of London in 1913, can one girl find the courage to open the door to her destiny?

**The second compelling book in the much loved Red Cliffs Ragged School Series**For orphan Solomon, Red Cliffs offers a place of safety.

A little girl is found abandoned on a beach one chilly Monday in October, alone apart from the body of her mother, cold beside her.

The second in Stewart Binns' acclaimed Great War Series, The Darkness and the Thunder is a sweeping story of war following five families through the terrifying conditions of the Western Front, the slaughter of Gallipoli and the heartbreak of those left at home.

The Shadow of War is the first novel in Stewart Binns's new series which will see a book release for each year of the First World War.

*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'Wonderful .