Renowned biographer and historian Philip Ziegler tackles the great cultural and social events, flashpoints and diplomatic wrangles that led the world from the First to the Second World War

A powerful coming-of-age story, set against the violent backdrop of decolonisation and the return to an old homeland

A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin

The multi-award-winning compact epic of passion, ambition and the American Dream.

A group of children inherit an elemental paradise on earth in Roy Jacobsen's phenomenally bestselling new novel about love, poverty and tragedy in early twentieth century Norway

A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl

The acclaimed story of a young girl's awakening - set in the the evocative, beautiful Ukrainian/Polish city of Lviv

As soldiers set sail for the fighting in Algeria, the legacy of the Second World War persists in this gripping tale of retribution and betrayal from one of Europe's leading crime writers

A seductive blend of fiction and autobiography, set in America's "Silver State", by the pre-eminent Basque author

The cult French social satire that has taken Europe by storm, and cast a penetrating light on the dark underbelly of modern urban life.

A new crime series with a difference: a brilliant police officer joins forces with a team of misfits to investigate decades-old unsolved crimes.

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq