Decades after Hitler won the war, the German Reich remains a well-oiled machine under the military regime.In Bohemia, Annelie – bright, young and hopeful – finds her first job in the Central Museum as a tour guide. A series of chance encounters turns her world upside down. Her life becomes forever changed, though not in the way she had hoped.In the capital Germania, Gunther Scholz – an army veteran and the Minister for Internal Affairs – is poised for a promotion to the mos...

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vienna during the 1930s and ’40s centres on a poignant love story and a friendship that ends in betrayal.In the years between the two world wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life around his friendships, his beloved wife, Anna, and his devotion to the old Jewish cemeteries of Vienna. Then comes the Anschluss in 1938, and Josef’s world is uprooted. His health disintegrates...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah MagazineAn estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and inherited shame from New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum.For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer refused to talk about her life in Germany during World ...

Norway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back…War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory.One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi’s fiancé is lost to the dangerous waters. Broken-hearted, she withdraws from the clandestine group, vowing never to let her lo...

This powerful, meticulously researched novel is a moving tale of one girl’s struggle against a world in turmoil. In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler’s fist, the Klein family is gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war...

The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller … NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL****LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER**`____________________' The Courier is a stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi noir … Ola Dahl ratchets up the...

"An absolutely beautiful and necessary novel full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and . . . sacrifices made for love." — New York TimesIn Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives.As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, seek shelter in a neighbor's barn. Hidden in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? A gripping tale of Berlin in the Second World War, from the author of Annelies.It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and ...

A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943.A young Jewish prisoner…Auschwitz, 1943. It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer.A detective with everything to prove…Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret – he is suf...

A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.'An expertly crafted unravelling of mixed loyalties, love, lust, lies and trust, set against the background of a world increasingly on the edge of all-out war' John Harvey'Dark, gritty and compulsive … feels l...

**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK *•*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. •A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!Based on the author’s own family letters, Send for Me tells the story of Annelise, a young woman in prewar Germany. Growing up working at her...

A young Polish woman imprisoned in Auschwitz plays chess in exchange for her life in this "smart and haunting" WWII novel ( New York Times –bestselling author Patti Callahan).A PopSugar Best Book of the Year!Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. When she is captured with her family...