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Den svenske diplomaten Harald Edelstam, med täcknamn Svarta nejlikan, anländer till Oslo 1942, mitt i deporteringen av de norska judarna till förintelseläger. Edelstam blir snabbt involverad i det smutsiga kriget mellan Gestapo och en spretig motståndsrörelse. Snaran dras åt runt den...

In the sequel to Gunner, detective Joseph Gunner is plunged into a world where no one can be trusted and nothing is what it seems. New York, December, 1941. A city preparing for war. Troop ships and trains full of young conscripts arrive every day. All of them set on one last party before being...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel during the Nazi occupation of Paris harbors a dangerous secret in this “magnificent” (ELLE), “brilliant” (Le Parisien) international bestseller based on a true story. "The Barman of the...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

To solve a double murder in Cuba, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana’s underworld and British intelligence, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R...

In a world of burning books, one woman will risk everything to keep stories alive. Berlin, 1933. The vibrant cultural heart of Germany is darkening under the shadow of the Nazi regime. For Helene Nathan, one of the first female librarians at a prestigious German library, the books she cherishes...

In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebrate her engagement to a dull British lord, a...

Im Sommer 1935 folgt die fünfundzwanzigjährige Grete ihrem Mann und zieht mit den kleinen Zwillingen in den neu gegründeten Hermann-Göring-Koog auf der Halbinsel Eiderstedt. Die Weite der Nordseeküste ist atemberaubend - und lebensgefährlich. Grete kämpft gegen den schweren, salzigen Boden, gegen Sturmfluten und gegen die Einsamkeit, die sie an den Rand ihrer Kräfte bringt. Doch noch schwerer wiegt eine Entscheidung, die sie trifft, um ihre Tochter zu schützen...

I Ödesnatten -44 möter läsaren 16-årige Erik från den Augustnominerade Land i lågor, 1992. Han har blivit antagen som volontär vid I 19 i Boden när en konvoj dyker upp på den finska sidan och Erik dras in i de dramatiska händelserna hösten 1944 vid den svensk-finska gränsen. Finska...

Col. John Randal and Lady Jane arrive in London just before Christmas 1943. They find themselves caught up in the murky world of Military Deception. MI-5 had captured every German spy in England and given them the choice of a firing squad or becoming a double agent working for the Double Cross Committee XX.

Novo romance do vencedor do prêmio Camões de 2013, A cegueira do rio nos leva ao norte de Moçambique nos dias que antecedem a guerra para contar uma história extraordinária de subversão do domínio colonial, em que a palavra escrita e a leitura são os únicos meios de fuga e salvação...

'Veronesi truly knows and loves all matters of the heart' IAN MCEWAN 'One of the most skilful and profound Italian storytellers of the past thirty years' DOMENICO STARNONE 'A perfect novel . . . Veronesi proves himself a master' LA STAMPA Summer, 1972. At his family's summer house in Versilia...

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble...

C'est la lecture de ce roman vrai qui a inspiré Steven Spielberg pour réaliser son célèbre film La Liste de Schindler. Comme l'a écrit le Guardian, " c'est une chose de rassembler des documents historiques et des témoignages. C'en est une autre de les ramener à la vie comme l'a fait Thomas Keneally ". Et en effet, l'auteur reconstitue l'histoire d'Oskar Schindler – industriel allemand qui dirigeait une usine rattachée à un camp de concentration durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - new season out now! London, 1946. Much of the capital, and indeed the country, remains beset by rationing and bomb damage. But for some there are other, more immediate concerns: crimes of a serious and sometimes deadly nature...

As the end of the Second World War in Europe looms, a new conflict is in its early stages: who will control Europe when the war ends? Soviet double-agent 'Archie' is now a British diplomat in the United States, feeding information on the Special Relationship back to Moscow Centre. Meanwhile...

Bradford, 1916 With her husband on the Western Front, Hattie Braithwaite throws herself into work at the local mill. When Maggie Flemming, an avid football fan, joins the production line the pair soon bond over their shared love of the game, encouraging others to join them in a lunchtime...

June, 1976. Western Europe is caught in the grip of a relentless and sweltering heatwave. In London, the summer marks a milestone of a different kind for Edie - a decade married to the love of her life, and their first child on the way. But on the night that she plans to tell Joe their news, he...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025 The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. ‘You’ve got the wrong person,’ I told him. ‘My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ In 1939, when she was just nineteen years old...

‘Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that August became a writer. He’d told me all kinds of stories – ‘I love you’ for one …’ Switzerland, 1926. Helen Fox lives a secluded life at the American Library of Geneva, passing her days cataloguing books left as bequests and combing through...