Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner & lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, & install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world.

Gorgeously original, full of wry humour & razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food & its neglected corners, Hunting & Gathering is a universal story about despair, love & the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world.

It's a big novel that you will not want to put down.



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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.





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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.





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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.





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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence & instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence & fears of communist subversion in industry & the Empire ran through the entire period.

Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were adopted from top to bottom of society & by men & women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread & depth of fascist beliefs
- & the extent to which they were distinctly British. Like the Continental movements, fascism in the UK encompassed the corporate state, charismatic leadership & youthful rejection of the decadent rule of the older generation. But was it less anti-Semitic? Was it readier to adopt a feminist agenda? & was the fact that Britain finally repudiated fascism more a matter of timing & chance than of fundamental obstacles in British society & politics?

Hurrah for the Blackshirts!, rich in anecdotes & extraordinary characters, shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination.




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Eira is alone. Thirty-six years old & living on her own. She loved Jack, but their relationship had to end
- she could never have
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