First World War fiction

Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun…‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again.Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth,...

The Internationally Bestselling Author of The English Wife‘Beautifully epic, romantic & rich in detail’ #1 & USA Today bestseller Lorna Cook‘Sweeping and evocative’ Rosanna LeyThree sisters The Great War The end of innocence… In 1913, in a quiet...

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a...

Ted Watts’ Diary is a coming-of-age love story.An orphaned seven-year-old English boy arrives in Sydney to be adopted by his ne’er-do-well Aunt during the early 1900s. The story finishes 60+ years later, after we have followed Ted’s tumultuous journey...

'Beautifully written and sensitively observed'- Hazel Gaynor, author, The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter'Beautifully written and thought-provoking'- Ruth Hogan, author, The Keeper of Lost ThingsINSPIRED BY ONE...

"One of those rare biographical novels that bring a whole world to life in a way that lingers in memory." -Jay Parini, author of Borges and MeThis absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigour.For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's...

Flanders, 1915.David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before thefiring squad and looks back on his short life. As a young man, David was sent awayby his parents, after a tragic accident in the family, to become a school teacher in...

San Francisco, 1916. The streetsroiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrialbarons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu andthe forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of...

In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of...

** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, WINNER OF 7 BAFTAS AND 4 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE** Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and...