Love in a time of hate1930s Europe as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian caf for his first date with no show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh caught butterfly at

known as kami

a tool of revolution

Mab isn't sure how to feel when her teacher gifts her an old fairy book

cultural and landscape features that defined it for Ivor Gurney

and blatant human rights abuses

she will be killed

A riveting narrative account of an England poised on the brink of enormous change from one of our finest journalists and writers

Deeply involving

exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their historical context

but they haven't counted on the fallout from Putin's incursions into the Ukraine

chaos has descended

where her talent for herbs and healing starts to attract unwanted attention