Títulos en Siglo XX

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...

Featured on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books Six friends. One city. The time of their lives. It’s 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn’t seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the strange tumultuous time they lived through. The...

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...

'A richly textured, gorgeously written debut that I couldn't put down' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre Venus, Vanishing is the blisteringly passionate and page-turning debut novel from Rebecca Birrell, of desire, art, and the stories lost to the darkness of history – for...

“A novel of unusual power and poignant interest” (Northern Whig) “This is certainly the finest novel on modern Germany I have read. (John O’ London’s Weekly) “Sally Carson, who gave us such a vivid picture of Germany inside her clever book Crooked Cross has given her readers another...

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...

'A powerful story, sweetly told' – Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of Auschwitz A country torn apart by war. Two siblings divided by fate. Italy, 1938. Mussolini is in power and war is not far away . . . Clara and Pippo are just children: quiet, thoughtful Clara is the older sister...

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes...

London, 1952, the world is watching as a young princess takes centre stage... Eve Brown, a senior housemaid at Buckingham Palace, battles with an abusive husband and seeks a better life for her daughter and herself. Lucy Smith, young and ambitious, navigates the challenges of societal...

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...

1912, Loughborough. Molly and Queenie are best friends living on the same street, both are in love with Harry Spencer, though he has made his choice in Queenie . . . Molly, with determined spirit, becomes increasingly involved in the Suffragette cause and grows in confidence. She is blamed for...

Can she defy the odds to follow her heart? London, 1939. With war imminent in Poland, nineteen-year-old Tamar and her father flee to the heart of the East End. Tamar becomes close friends with nurse Florence and local shopkeeper Elma, but their joy quickly falls apart as bombings land and they...

Read by Anna Popplewell, known for her role in The Chronicles of Narnia. Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Sunday Times Bestseller Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of...

From #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America’s favorite TV family, whose perfect façade starts to crack, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. * * * For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have...

IS WHAT WE INHERIT A BLESSING . . . OR A CURSE? The Carrington family is blessed with good looks, brains and talent – and far more than their fair share of money. The business acumen of an eighteenth-century ancestor has blossomed into an empire in which generations have played their part and...

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

'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...

“[An] impressive debut.” —The New York Times “A wonderfully conceived and remarkably assured first novel, rich in emotion and with a truly compelling narrative drive. A brilliant success.” —William Boyd, bestselling author of Any Human Heart For readers of The Nightingale, In...

"Sally Carson's prescient novel offers an unflinching look at the early days of Nazism, resonating with today's fears of lost boys, strong men and old hatreds... A remarkable novel: chilling, compelling, contained..." The Times "...warrants a permanent place in the growing canon of World War Two...