Set in Liverpool and written by a former nun, this is a novel about a 16-year-old girl who decides (to everyone's dismay) to become a nun. Convent life turns out to be not quite as she expected.

Going in

Literature & Fiction

Newman, Jenny

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton Limited

Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders

Hawksmoor

ACKROYD, Peter

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The War Zone

Alexander Stuart

Pride, Greed, Anger, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy parade before our startled eyes. And there is lust.

Seven Deadly Sins

SCARFE, Gerald

Dying Young.

LEIMBACH, Marti

A novella and a collection of short stories in one volume. The novella is a tale of an eccentric sculptress and her quarrel with her petty-minded neighbours. Some of the stories explore how casual cruelty or envy can destroy and others develop the theme of obsessive meticulousness.

Endangered Happiness & Other Stories

Bennett, Penelope

Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there is was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve - the start of his longest night's work of the year! This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.

Father Christmas

Children's Books

BRIGGS, Raymond

Holidays & Celebrations

Claude Rawlings, a poverty-stricken young man, feels stymied by life, until he finds an old piano and embarks on a musical odyssey that takes him into a world of wealth, power, and fame

Body and Soul

Frank Conroy

In Harm's Way: Reflections of a War Zone Thug

In harm's way

BELL, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become virtually extinct as a significant element in European society over the course of the twenty-first century. Now, in the first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last fifty years, Bernard Wasserstein sheds light on the reasons for this dire demographic projection. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, many hitherto unpublished, Wasserstein begins with the painful years of liberation after World War II when Jews tried to recover from the destruction of their people and communities, then traces the Jewish experience in Eastern and Western Europe in different national and ideological contexts. His important and original inquiry covers the impact on Jews of postwar reconstruction, Soviet occupation, the Cold War, and the collapse of communism. These, combined with the memory of Nazi genocide, the persistence of antisemitism, the development of Israel, and the Middle East conflicts, shaped the history of European Jewry in the second half of the twentieth century. With exceptional eloquence and conviction, "Vanishing Diaspora" argues that survival for European Jews ultimately will depend on choices they themselves make to reverse trends. They have an alarmingly imbalanced death-to-birth ratio, and many have jettisoned religious observance in the spirit of a secular Europe, losing their cultural distinctiveness as well as their numbers. This often painful story of destruction, irreparable loss, and the shattering of ties thus serves as a wake-up call and a dramatic warning.

Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

History

WASSERSTEIN, Bernard

Europe

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