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November, 1939. A conscription officer arrives in the peaceful farming village of Rautjärvi. The Soviet Union has invaded, and for the first time in its history as an independent country, Finland is at war. Setting off into the depths of winter to face the Red Army, the small group of childhood friends recruited from Rautjärvi have no idea whether any of them will ever return home. But their unit has a secret weapon: the young sniper Simo Häyhä, whose lethal skill in the snow-bound forests of the front line will earn him the nickname 'The White Death'.

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The Green Jackets: The 95th RiflesIn 1805, gamekeeper Marcus Bradbury’s future is a dead end until Thomas Plunket, a charismatic recruiter for the 95th Rifles, offers an escape. He promises a place in a revolutionary corps of "thinking soldiers" where skill, not birth, is what matters. Seduced, Marcus trades his old life for a Baker rifle and is plunged into the Napoleonic Wars. Plunket becomes his saviour and dark mirror: a peerless marksman with a supernatural gift for killing.

Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French—a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges... Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies.

»Niemand wird dieses Fahrzeug jemals brauchen« Fortschritt, Furcht und frühes Scheitern: die Geschichte zweier Erfinder und Rivalen Im Juli 1886 unternahm Herr Benz in Mannheim die erste Autofahrt der Geschichte. Cannstatt war weit genug entfernt, dass dort zur selben Zeit Herr Daimler stolz erzählen konnte, er habe gerade das Automobil erfunden. Schwierig wurde es, als die beiden von der Existenz des anderen erfuhren. Ein Wettlauf beginnt, und die lebensfrohen Frauen der Erfinder mischen mit.

Pendant trois jours, au cœur d'une Convention, Lila Lacombe déambule, parle fort, rit beaucoup et enchaîne les rencontres inoubliables. Mais derrière les lumières, les files d'attente et les applaudissements, un autre récit se tisse. Au fil des heures, les souvenirs remontent : son petit studio dans lequel elle vit seule depuis l'âge de 13 ans pour apprendre la danse, les débuts de sa carrière de comédienne de doublage, les rencontres tantôt solaires ou dangereuses et puis les sacrifices, les choix, les doutes.

A los sesenta y ocho años, Theodor Kallifatides, exiliado en Suecia desde hace más de cuatro décadas, visita a su madre de noventa y dos, que sigue residiendo en Atenas. Ambos saben que puede ser uno de sus últimos encuentros.

Koo-chan vive um momento de conflito interior no Japão do entreguerras. No começo da adolescência, tem fantasias que combinam impulso sexual e violência sadomasoquista, desejo e morbidez. O rapaz chega a imaginar um "teatro da morte", em que jovens lutadores se enfrentariam como gladiadores, exclusivamente para êxtase do próprio Koo-chan.

Dalle tradizioni sciamaniche impariamo che un’anima può prendere in prestito qualsiasi forma della natura – un merlo, una pianta, il vento – anche solo per un istante, giusto il tempo di un saluto di passaggio. Nel mezzo di una passeggiata nel giardino di casa, all’alba dei suoi...

VUELVE LORENZO SILVA PARA RESCATAR LA FIGURA DE UN HÉROE DESCONOCIDO. Campins, el general que el 18 de julio de 1936 eligió ser fiel a la legalidad, a su palabra y a su conciencia. En esta novela, Lorenzo Silva rescata del olvido la historia de Miguel Campins, un militar culto, íntegro y...

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a schoolteacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.

The King's Painter by bestselling historian Alison Weir is an e-short and companion piece to the captivating fourth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series, Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets. 'There are certain matters that are better handled by ladies than by ministers or ambassadors' King Henry...

1522, England. Anne Boleyn has lived an adventurous youth in the glittering courts of Europe, now, promised in marriage to a man she knows nothing of, Anne has been called home by her ambitious father. She will enter the English Court, to find many admirers courting her. Anne finds potential for love in three men, but there is one... more unexpected than all the others, who claims her heart. The beginning of a love which would change the course of English history, and shake the foundations of the Church... The courtier's daughter who captured the heart of a king, Anne Boleyn.

Mary Tudor watches her elder brother become King of England and wonders what the future holds for her. Born into great privilege, Mary has beauty and intelligence beyond her years and is the most marriageable princess in Europe. Henry plans to use her marriage to build a powerful alliance against his enemies. Will she dare risk his anger by marrying for love? Meticulously researched and based on actual events, this 'sequel' follows Mary's story from book three of the Tudor Trilogy and is set during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.

As the beautiful daughter of courtiers, Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount is overjoyed when she secures a position as maid of honor to Katherine of Aragon. But when she captures the attention of the king himself, there are whispers that the queen ought to be worried for her throne. When Bess gives birth to a healthy son the whispers become a roar. But soon the infamous Boleyn girls come to court and Henry's love for her begins to fade. 

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.

Brand-new historical fiction from the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series. This is the spellbinding, untold story of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen. 'Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet... This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is...

Once Upon a Raven's Nest is an account of an epoch of change; of the earth and of a human life. It is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency. Born in 1955 to a poor family...