This is the ultimate history of the Blitz & bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian & author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill & terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities. The Bombing War radically overhauls our understanding of the War. It is the first book to examine seriously not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts
- the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly discovered material on the more familiar ' Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. The result is the author's masterpiece
- a rich, gripping, picture of the Second World War & the terrible military, technological & ethical issues that relentlessly drove all its participants into an abyss. About the author: Richard Overy is the author of a series of remarkable books on the Second World War & the wider disasters of the twentieth century. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia won both the Wolfson Prize for History & the Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Penguin publishes 1939: Countdown to War, The Morbid Age, Russia's War, Interrogations, The Battle of Britain & The Dictators. He lives in London.

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` Man, the only
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Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality & chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 One drowsy summer`s day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for `asylum`. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking.. . The Bone Clocks follows the twists & turns of Holly`s life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland`s Atlantic coast as Europe`s oil supply dries up
- a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air & brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes
- daughter, sister, mother, guardian
- is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows & margins of our world, & may prove to be its decisive weapon.


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The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Run away, one drowsy summer`s afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel & unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict. Over six decades, the consequences of a moment`s impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. & as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family`s survival.. . ...

Evie`s shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, & the physical traces of her past are fixed
- the only remaining signs a scar on her side & a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle Ben helps her to carve into a dragon as a sign of her strength. Soon this ivory talisman begins to come to life at night, offering wisdom & encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke & moonlight that come to feel ever more real. As Evie grows stronger there remains one problem her new parents can`t fix for her: a revenge that must be taken. & it seems that the Dragon is the one to take it. This subtly unsettling novel is told from the viewpoint of a fourteen-year-old girl damaged by a past she can`t talk about, in a hypnotic narrative that, while giving increasing insight, also becomes increasingly unreliable. A blend of psychological thriller & fairy tale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life & fantasy, & the darkest corners of the human mind.
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Shortlisted for the Guardian Children`s Fiction Prize & the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid & deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of the importance of freedom, hope, & the power of a story to speak for anyone who`s ever struggled to find a safe home. `...a special book`
- Morris Gleitzman, author of the acclaimed ONCE series Born in a refugee camp, all Subhi knows of the world is that he`s at least 19 fence diamonds high, the nice Jackets never stay long, & at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his tent, bringing with it unusual treasures. & one day it brings him Jimmie. Carrying a notebook that she`s unable to read & wearing a sparrow made out of bone around her neck
- both talismans of her family`s past & the mother she`s lost
- Jimmie strikes up an unlikely friendship with Subhi beyond the fence. As he reads aloud the tale of how Jimmie`s family came to be, both children discover the importance of their own stories in writing their futures.


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They called us the Mercies, or sometimes the Boneless Mercies. They said we were shadows, ghosts, & if you touched our skin we dissolved into smoke.. . Frey, Ovie, Juniper, & Runa are Boneless Mercies
- death-traders, hired to kill quickly, quietly & mercifully. It is a job for women, & women only. Men will not do this sad, dark work. Frey has no family, no home, no fortune, & yet her blood sings a song of glory. So when she hears of a monster slaughtering men, women, & children in a northern jarldom, she decides this the Mercies` one chance to change their fate. But glory comes at a price.. . An epic YA fantasy set in a breathtaking new world, this is perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, Laini Taylor & Melinda Salisbury ” Fierce & glorious, this story of outcast girls defying fate utterly bewitched me. Tucholke is a gorgeous writer.” -- LAINI TAYLOR, New York Times-bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer ” Its every page hints at a deeper magic at work; it contains a whole world & all its myths & histories within its skin.” -- MELISSA ALBERT, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hazel Wood” Ruthless & lyrical, heart-warming & blood-chilling, & beautifully redolent of ancient tales & history. It will sing to a new generation of heroes.”-- SAMANTHA SHANNON, New York Times-bestselling author of The Bone Season”I fell in love with this stunning novel from the very first page. Fierce & unforgettable, with gorgeous prose & a fantastic premise that more than delivers. Easily one of my favorite YA novels of 2018.” -- KATHERINE WEBBER, author of Wing Jones & Only Love Can Break Your Heart
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The Bones of Grace. It is the story of Zubaida, & her search for herself. It is a story she tells for Elijah, the love of her life. It tells the story of Anwar, the link in Zubaida`s broken chain. Woven within these tales are the stories of a whale & a ship; a piano & a lost boy. This is the story of love itself. ...

Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, & the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, & the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here
- deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery & tragedy
- lies the key to her story. & a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back. Echoing with loneliness & longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love & conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere & truly love anyone.

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A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ` The Joy Luck Club`, ` The Kitchen God`s Wife` & ` The Hundred Secret Senses`. Lu Ling Young is in her eighties, & finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. Lu Ling can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing & contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, & while tending to her discovers the story Lu Ling wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. Lu Ling tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined & where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie`s bones lie, & of the curse that Lu Ling believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: Who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of Lu Ling`s life? Set in contemporary San Francisco & pre-war China, ` The Bonesetter`s Daughter` is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth & humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother & daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history & heredity is priceless beyond measure. ...