Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis’ growth in power between December 1932 and August 1933. It is extraordinarily prescient, anticipating all the horrors they were about to inflict on the world. The main focus of the novel is on disaffected German youth: it shows with great subtlety that by the early 1930s there was huge unemployment, and a corresponding feeling of futility, and that what the Nazis did so skilfully was to provide a sense of purpose. ...

The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books’s recent best-seller, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. The novel opens in August 1933, just a few weeks after ***Crooked Cross***ended. Set mostly in Munich, it describes the lives of the Kluger family as Nazism strengthens its grip on Germany: we watch as Erich’s commitment to the Party grows, while Helmy's struggles to accept its strictures threatens to be the family’s undoin...

“A novel of unusual power and poignant interest” (Northern Whig)“This is certainly the finest novel on modern Germany I have read. (John O’ London’s Weekly)“Sally Carson, who gave us such a vivid picture of Germany inside her clever book Crooked Cross has given her readers another wonderful story showing the terrible crisis through which the German nation is passing today [...].” (Bournemouth Graphic)“A deep...

THE INCIDENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE BASED ON REAL EVENTS.THE NAMES WERE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY FROM BEING SUED BY THE INNOCENT.Paul and Julie Carson were living the suburban dream. They fell in love, got married, took out a large mortgage (despite having only a small income) and were parents to the requisite 2.5 adorable children…OK then, it was actually only 2.0. The opportunity to take an extended trip to Europe was forsaken before all the responsibility kicked in, and t...

"Sally Carson's prescient novel offers an unflinching look at the early days of Nazism, resonating with today's fears of lost boys, strong men and old hatreds... A remarkable novel: chilling, compelling, contained..." The Times"...warrants a permanent place in the growing canon of World War Two literature." Clare McHugh, BBC CultureIt is Christmas Eve 1932, and the Kluger family are celebrating at home. Their only daughter Lexa is excited about her upcomin...

When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.Berlin, 1943. A group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo - revealing their secret to the Nazis' most ruthless detective.They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence of...

The explosive, unmissable account of the succession of Elizabeth I from bestselling author Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces'Compelling and brilliant' - ALISON WEIR'A meticulously researched must-read for Tudor enthusiasts'- SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2025----------In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen's m...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEW ADULT BOOK PRIZE 2026'[A] clever and provocative debut ... smart and engaging – like Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Never Let Me Go.' Daily Mail'A compelling and disturbing story of love and sacrifice, control and resistance.' GuardianOnce the process begins, ther...

*An Observer Book of the Year*'One of the most gripping accounts... of the Nazis' rise to power. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John Kampfner, bestselling author of *Why The Germans Do It Better**'***Outstanding... This is history at its very best.' - Julia Boyd, bestselling author of Travellers in the Third ReichGermany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is over, the natio...

'Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The BindingENTER - AND YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAMEMexico, 1973Simon Corbett has come to the jungle the way people do: to salvage a ruined career, and outrun a past he cannot face.But the forest is no refuge.As he ventures deeper, his days lose their edges. Foo...

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE PRIX JEAN GIONOFINALIST FOR THE PRIX INTERALLIÉA bestselling, award-winning World War II novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company — and the best sniper the world has ever seen — defending their country against the largest army in the world.November 1939: the Soviet Union invades its tiny, relatively defenceless neighbour Finland, just three months after the ...

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime.But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best.Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway wo...