All the broken places

John Boyne

The last bookshop in London

Madeline Martin

Our darkest night

Jennifer Robson

The book of lost names

Kristin Harmel

An act of love

Carol Drinkwater

The Paris secret

Natasha Lester

Bluebird

Sharon Cameron

The woman with the blue star

Pam Jenoff

Stalingrad

Vasili Grossman

Manhattan Beach

Jennifer Egan

Courtney's war

David Churchill, Wilbur Smith

Mischling

Affinity Konar

Lilac girls

Martha Hall Kelly

War cry

David Churchill, Wilbur Smith

The women of the castle

Jessica Shattuck

Everyone brave is forgiven

Chris Cleave

Noonday

Pat Barker

All the light we cannot see

Anthony Doerr

I can't begn to tell you

Elizabeth Buchan

The lives of Stella Bain

Anita Shreve

The pagan lord

Bernard Cornwell

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

Schindler's list

Thomas Keneally

Empire of the sun

J.G. Ballard

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The children's crusade

Kurt Vonnegut