Night and the City (1938) made Gerald Kersh's reputation, but it was as a war novelist that he reached a wide readership in 1942, via a pair of books about British army recruits, led by Sergeant Bill Nelson, preparing to see service in France.
Imaginary Toys (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with Another Country (1981).
First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution.
Tom Stoppard's dramatisation for BBC TV of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford will bring new readers to the novel as well as giving Stoppard's audience much that is original to his inventive version of a masterwork of modernist English literature.
**THE NEWER WORLD - THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM SEBASTIAN BARRY - IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWinner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe Dream of the Celt explores the life of the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement who was executed for treason after his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising, travelling with its protagonist from Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru, where Casement worked as a British consul, and to London, where he ended his life in Pentonville jail.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road** Order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel Caledonian Road now **How much do we keep from the people we love?
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FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GOSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future.
The New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS LIBRARY returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.
The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US Marine Corps, whose fighting proved so critical in repelling the Germans that the French would later rename Belleau Bois de la Brigade de Marine.
Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.
This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.
This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.