"Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home. Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie wa...
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While Captain Antonio Corelli, an Italian officer, and his soldiers are stationed on the idyllic island of Cephallonia, he falls in love with a beautiful girl and the land around him, but when the war reaches the island their love is tested.
In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. With their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys, they are "The Pals." But these days of childhood...
In 1998 Louis De Bernieres came upon the bronze statue of a dog in an Australian boom town and immediately wanted to know more about "Red Dog." This collection of stories and illustrations is charming.
Set against the background of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign, and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, the novel tells the story of one small community in south-west Anatolia, where Christians and Muslims co-exist peacefully until war cl...
"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world -- and the selves -- left to themin the wake of World W...
The story of a small town in Anatolia at the end of the Ottoman Empire is told in the richly varied voices of its inhabitants.
Chris, a middle-aged man, is bored, lonely, and trapped in a loveless marriage. One night he invites Roza, a Yugoslavian immigrant to England, into his car thinking she is a prostitute. Roza has already lived a life filled with danger, romance, and tragedy, and over the next few ...
"Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"-- Provided by publisher.
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends whose world was torn apart by the First World War. Some were lost in battle, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended, scattered to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain. ...
Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner, but he had many friends and he always knew where to go for a good meal. The stories in this book are base...
During the finals days of the Ottoman Empire, the young men of the village are instructed to battle the invading forces during the Great War and destroy the peace.