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From 1917 to the 1980's

Paul Johnson begins this dramatic account of the last six decades with ehe end of the First World War, which saw the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosomology, the full impact of Freudianism, the establishment of the First Marxist state and the genesis of the great Marxist heresy, Fascism.  He traces the interplay of these forces during the aracdian Twenties, the desparate Thirties and the catastrophe of the Second World War.  Within the framework of the ingenious organisational structure, which allows ample space for the vivid incident and telling anecdote, de describes the rise of the two super - powers, locked in Cold War, the Communist revloution in China, the deconilization of Africa and Asia and the tragic aftermath of independence, the stunning recovery of democracy and capitalism in Western Europe, the rise of the Pacific enterprise economies led by Japan, the radicalizing of Latin America, the expansion of the Soviet Russia as a global military power, the hegemony of the United States followed by its attempted suicide in the years 1965-1980.

Author: William Wharton
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1984

Gives a fresh imaginative charge and  a new edge to blunted truisms like "War is Hell"

Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 225

Author: Sara Paretsky 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 310
V.I. Warshawski is confronted with the mysterious death of a young woman at a local hospital and the preliminary investigation produces horrifying results.

Author: Edward Hogan 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 272
Blackmoor is the story of a community that fell apart, and a past that refuses to go away . . .

Author: Peter Hoeg 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1995
Pages: 251
A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.

Author: David Papineau, Horard Selina 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2006
Pages: 174

Consciousness is widely viewed as the last frontier of science. Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings. Eminent thinkers from many areas of science are turning to this problem, and a wide range of theories are currently on offer. Yet sceptics doubt whether consciousness can be tamed by conventional scientific techniques, and others wonder whether its mysteries can be understood at all.

Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Condition: 9/10
Published Date: 1992

Chiller thrilling form and genuinely engrossing. Alex Delawre at his best.

Author: Michael Herr
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: ****

'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.' - John Le Carre

Author: Imogen Edwards- Jones 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2006
Pages: 330

Taking the reader through six months in a designer's life, Fashion Babylon follows an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond. Structured around three of the annual "must" industry events, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well-cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career.

Author: Ken Follett
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2002
Pages: 582
From the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces - and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall

Author: Imogen Edward-Jones
Condition: 10/10
Published Date: 2004

Author: Howard Spring
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1961

When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War 1 marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war.

Author: John Keegan 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date:  2004 
Pages:  440

The age of war with big armies is past; we live in the age of big intelligence -- secret organizations with huge budgets running vast infrastructures for collecting information, some of it stolen, and for confounding foes, sometimes violently. The Cold War was mainly fought on the intelligence battlefield, and victory in the new war on terror will depend little on the awesome American capacity to destroy the works of man, so evident in the first Gulf War, and depend much on outwitting a clandestine enemy who travels light and moves in secret.

Author: Jean-paul Sartre
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1970

This was the meaning of defeat. Day by day, hour by hour, this is what men thought and felt and did, as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, and brave men, Like Mathieu, who learned to hate and kill.

Author: William Nicholson 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 418
With its riveting and deft handling of myriad themes including love, courage, friendship, desire, faith, and redemption, Jango will mesmerize every reader who dares to take the journey.

Author: Raymond E Feist 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2004
Pages: 381
Among the Orosini tribe, every boy must undergo the traditional manhood ritual in order to understand his place in the universe and discover his manhood name. Kielianapuna must survive on the remote mountain peak of Shatana Higo until the gods grant him his vision.

Author: Pat Barker 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 248
Spring, 1914. A group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville - himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter - makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model.

Author: Philip Boast
Condition: 5/10
Published Date: 1987

The saga of a turn-of -the centuary foundling.

Author: Valerie Zenatti 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 157

Bottle in the Gaza Sea should be THE novel for teens on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. When teen Tal Levine witnesses a bombing in Tel Aviv, she becomes despondent. Like so many people, she wants Israel and Palestine to live in peace. One day she puts her hopes into a letter, places the letter into a bottle, and gives it to her brother, asking him to toss it into the Gaza Sea. A young man in Gaza finds the bottle, and responds. He is critical, angry, annoyed at first, but eventually they both participate in a friendship that ultimately opens their eyes.