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Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. 17-year-old Lev has been arrested for looting. Along with his charismatic cellmate, Kolya, Lev is given a choice - find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel, or face execution.

When Nadine was eleven she fell in love with Dig. A chance meeting with Delilah inspires Nadine to unearth Phil from her past and soon their lives change beyond recognition. Dig, meanwhile, is nursing a broken heart.

Settling in the impoverished Mallee with an ambition to cultivate the land, Robert and Jean Pettergree are forced to confront each other, and the community they have inadvertently destroyed, after their agricultural practices damage the fragile and ancient landscape.

'Suite Francaise' is a lost masterpiece written in World War II France, telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.

New mum Emily wants revenge on the stick-thin assistants who laugh at her post-baby tummy and post-baby budget. But frumpiness has its advantages when you're wielding a secret camera - and sending the damning footage straight to head office.

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler finds it hard to stand and watch.

Seeking peace of mind, Lady Donna de Colomb flees the stews of London and the Restoration court for remote Navaron. There she finds the boundless passion her spirit craves - daring to love the pirate hunted by all Cornwall.

This sweeping novel tells the story of Ireland from the time of Cromwell to the Easter Rising and Independence, taking in along the way the Year of the French, Parnell, the Celtic Dawn and of course the time of Yeats.

Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. When exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky arrives, Shepherd throws in his lot with art and the revolution.