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  The Blood of Others

  Graham Hurley

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  The blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. 
   
  A catastrophe no headline dared admit. 
   
  Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. 
   
  George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. 
   
  Jackie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. 
   
  Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive... 
   
  From highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, the blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris. 
   
  Praise for the author: 'A penetrating, compelling, and skilfully vivid slice of historical fiction' LOVEREADING 
   
  'Historical fiction of a high order' THE TIMES 
   
  'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' SUNDAY TIMES 
   
  'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' DAILY MAIL 
   
  'Capable and understated characterization' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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  Lizzie's Recalcitrant Earl

  Fiona Miers

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  Widows are safe for this rakehell to bed… …until he meets the one widow he can’t forget. 
  Lizzie Somers is a widow with means. But instead of retiring to her country estate, she’s off to London in search of a husband. She’s certain she needs a respectable, faithful man to give her the family she desperately desires. Until she meets notorious rake, Rupert Willoughby. He’s the opposite of what she wants, but exactly what she needs. And her heart leaps before her head can catch up. 
  Rupert Willoughby dedicated his youth to becoming the worst possible candidate for Earl, a title he never wanted. Not only does he have a reputation for drinking, and frequenting ladies of the night, but he has the muscles of a pugilist. Most unbecoming of a gentleman. He thought he’d secured his freedom, but nothing can scare away the matchmaking mamas and eligible ladies of the ton. Society expects him to marry. He needs a wife he can wed, bed and forget. Then Lizzie enters his world and stamps herself onto his heart. 
  Rupert’s found a woman he wants to love forever… but can he be the man his beloved Lizzie deserves?

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  Nightshade - Jem Flockart Book 5

  E S Thomson

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  London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade, a smaller, child-like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms, and is accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl, a curious coin-like token, a set of tiny ivory sculls. 
  The police claim the victim is too long-buried for answers to be found, but for Jem, a corpse in her own garden is something that cannot be ignored. The plans to the garden, laid out some forty years earlier, reveal a list of five names. 
  When Jem and Will start asking questions, the murders begin. Each victim has a past connection with the physic garden; each corpse is found with its jaw broken wide and its mouth stuffed with deadly nightshade. As they move closer to uncovering the truth Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain encounter a dark world of addiction, madness, power and death that strikes at the very heart of Jem's own history. This time, the poison is personal. 
  'Evocative...brilliant plotting' - REBECCA GRIFFITHS 
  'Vivid, pungent and perilous' - CHRIS BROOKMYRE

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  There can be no doubt that within these ten stories genius abounds.  These mistresses of the word, of the literary form, dazzle all of us with their choices, their narratives and their abundant talents. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The Women - An Introduction 
  2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin 
  3 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 
  4 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  5 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker 
  7 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  8 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 
  9 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  10 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  11 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

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  Librarian of Burned Books The:...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  In a war-torn world where ideas are weapons, one librarian risks everything to rescue forbidden writings from smoldering ruins. With every recovered manuscript and stealthy midnight exchange, she ignites hope and empowers communities to rebuild from ashes. Poignant and pulse-pounding, this story of courage, solidarity, and the enduring power of knowledge will inspire listeners to champion truth and creativity in their own lives.

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  Beyond the Tracks

  Michael Reit

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  Berlin, 1938 
  It’s no longer safe here. 
  When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps. 
  Handpicked by the cruel new SS regime to police the camp’s Jewish population, Jacob has the opportunity to save his parents and best friend from the dreaded transport lists — but at what cost? 
  Based on true events, Beyond the Tracks is a redemptive story of unconditional loyalty and a will to survive at impossible odds.

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