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Set just after the Normandy invasion, this novel tells the story of Heck, an American GI. Utterly inexperienced as a soldier, Heck is paralyzed with fear during his first firefight. Desperate to get away from the front line, he deliberately allows himself to be shot. It shows how ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary events.

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It is 1868 and the Imperial Cabinet of Russia is proposing an international agreement to forbid the use of certain projectiles in time of war - the St Petersburg Declaration.

This book came about as the result of personal research it uncovered a middle class crime fraud and the establishment help in covering that up as the percentage of white collar crime that is examined by the police is exceptionally low and the percentage that goes before the courts even lower. There is ...

Redolent with the sights, smells, and tastes of Paris, "Chez Moi" is a profound and tender novel about a woman's troubled past--and her enduring love of cooking.

Presenting a portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, this work charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility and literary fame.

Explores the experiences of the adolescent David, son of a Spanish Republican family. Throughout the novel, various members of the family are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War, while the rest of the world is turned upside down by World War Two.

In Repatriated the world is a dangerous place and the bomb is ticking - at home and abroad. As the radio broadcasts news of H bomb tests, Mr Java writes letters of complaint to the authorities, dreams of horses, and stands at the front window, on the look out for special security spies and nuclear holocaust.

Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel

A novel on the destructive conflicts within a mixed marriage. She is Swedish and poetic, he is French and unexciting, they live in England with four children and complicating matters is a jealous mother-in-law. By the author of Karin.

The narrator of this debut novel blunders through life until the arrival of Santiago, a male presence who appears in her mind at the age of fourteen. Thanks to Santiago, the naive innocence that has led her into trouble is gone, replaced by a street-smart wisdom that makes her attractive and successful. ...

Robert Maidens leaves England for Albania, where his paltry savings are transformed into riches and make him a landowning grandee (and would-be hotelier). Charlotte arrives at his farm, having heard him shooting. Then the Serb attack on Kosovo sends violence and fear through the land.

At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on.

This title manages to relate three seemingly unrelated facts: a town council which has promised a million pounds to the least exciting park in Morecambe; 18 year-old Teena Rama who is 148.7per cent too beautiful; and Mr Landen who has no brain.

The stories in this text give an insight into Indian lives - all linked by family or friendship or just sheer coincidence - and give the reader a poignant reminder of how even the smallest event can cause the greatest effect.