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Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times) Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town.

In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her father again. This memoir offers a deeply moving message from a daughter to a father.

His affair with Clea, am agnetic, bisexual artist, not only changes the lovers, but transforms the dead, forever - and heralds a new beginning, just as Lawrence Durrell's intoxicating masterpiece ends.

A guide that comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. It details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose.

But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world . 'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates 'Remarkable .

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. I'll rout her out.' Killing Time was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04/11/2024 to w/c 18/11/2024.

A story that is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.

An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.