CRUCIBLE John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop As the Roaring Twenties approach their end, October 1929 brings the Wall Street Crash and the start of what will come to be known as the Great Depression. In Detroit, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company continues to pay its […]
Read More CRUCIBLE by John SaylesTHE UNDERTAKING Audrey Magee (audreymagee.com) Atlantic Books (atlantic-books.co.uk) £12.99 In order to temporarily escape the madness of the Eastern Front, German soldier Peter Faber turns to marriage. It is a marriage of convenience, the bride one Katharina Spinell, chosen from a catalogue, a girl he has never met. The benefits are mutual: ten days’ honeymoon […]
Read More THE UNDERTAKING by Audrey MageeTHE WIND IS NOT A RIVER Brian Payton (brianpayton.com) Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £16.99 John Easley, a reporter for the National Geographic is ejected – along with every other journalist in the region – from the Aleutian Islands when the Japanese make their first incursion onto American soil. When his brother, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, […]
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