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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War, and its effects on their marriage, behind them.Back home in England, Rosie's sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches ...Show more
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Series: Daniel Pitt Trilogy
Louis de Berni res is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.Louis de Berni res is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autu ...Show more
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Series: Daniel Pitt
Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the co ...Show more
The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres
Category: Fiction
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their 'pals' the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are des ...Show more
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
Category: Fiction | Series: Latin American Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them.
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