For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians & the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims & into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor & oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice & decency. ...

Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold & in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day & the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.

RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been on covert operations in France & knows he has to return there. While in Engl&, he rediscovers a passion that he thought was long over.

In a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, Sergeant Harris's mind is occupied by questions of just how his young & ebullient wife is coping with their separation. His troops are training for landing on the shores of Normandy.

US officer Harry Miller arrives in Somerset where his American division has set up its headquarters. His affair with an Englishwoman is both bittersweet & potentially dangerous.

Enjoying fishing off the coast of occupied Jersey is German cook sergeant Fred Weber. He believes he has found a sort of peace in the midst of the terrible conflict. But his calm is soon to be shattered as his war takes on a violent twist...

Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France where the great battle will begin...









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Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold & in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day & the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.

RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been on covert operations in France & knows he has to return there. While in Engl&, he rediscovers a passion that he thought was long over.

In a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, Sergeant Harris's mind is occupied by questions of just how his young & ebullient wife is coping with their separation. His troops are training for landing on the shores of Normandy.

US officer Harry Miller arrives in Somerset where his American division has set up its headquarters. His affair with an Englishwoman is both bittersweet & potentially dangerous.

Enjoying fishing off the coast of occupied Jersey is German cook sergeant Fred Weber. He believes he has found a sort of peace in the midst of the terrible conflict. But his calm is soon to be shattered as his war takes on a violent twist...

Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France where the great battle will begin...









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Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora
- storyteller & king's fool. Over the course of
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Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora
- storyteller & king's fool. Over the course of
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In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse & borderline mental illness, a man runs away to the suburbs, to live what he hopes will be a normal life. With the aid of his last remaining friends he finds a regular job, goes to AA meetings & resolves to ...