The Sisters of Auschwitz appeared first in Dutch as 't Hooge Nest' – The High Nest being the name of the house where two Jewish sisters, at enormous risk to themselves, hid people fleeing from the Nazis during the Occupation.
An Empire in the East, by Norman Lewis
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
Review: The Silk Roads: a new history of the world, by Peter Frankopan
The Oak Papers, by James Canton
This book is available from the Library This is a story about an artist grandmother and her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia, spending their summer(s) on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland. Sophia’s mother has died, but there is only one brief mention of this, even if it remains a shadow in the background of the story. It’s a short…
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing
A diary featuring the lives of a countess and a valet during the Second World War
Many people will know James Rebanks’ first book, The Shepherd’s Life. Now he has written a lyrical and passionate account of his life on a Lake District upland farm inherited from his grandfather and in the area where his family has lived for at least 600 years. The book is in three parts. First are memories of growing up in…