Nuremberg Rally, Invasion of Poland, Dunkirk …
James Meek: The never-ending wish to write about the Second World War, 6 September 2001
Ghost MacIndoe
by Jonathan Buckley.
Fourth Estate, 469 pp., £12.99, April 2001,1 84115 227 7 Show More
by Jonathan Buckley.
Fourth Estate, 469 pp., £12.99, April 2001,
The Day We Had Hitler Home
by Rodney Hall.
Granta, 361 pp., £15.99, April 2001,1 86207 384 8 Show More
by Rodney Hall.
Granta, 361 pp., £15.99, April 2001,
Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris.
Doubleday, 431 pp., £12.99, April 2001,0 385 60169 7 Show More
by Joanne Harris.
Doubleday, 431 pp., £12.99, April 2001,
The Element of Water
by Stevie Davies.
Women’s Press, 253 pp., £9.99, April 2001,0 7043 4705 9 Show More
by Stevie Davies.
Women’s Press, 253 pp., £9.99, April 2001,
The Bronze Horsewoman
by Paullina Simons.
Flamingo, 637 pp., £6.99, April 2001,0 00 651322 0 Show More
by Paullina Simons.
Flamingo, 637 pp., £6.99, April 2001,
“... sullen disinterest [sic].’ The logical next step is a house-makeover novel set during the Blitz. Francis Cottam gestures towards this when the hero of The Fire Fighter takes against the look of the bombproof den the authorities have provided for him in the bowels of the Tube: ‘Finlay looked up. Babcock had replaced the bulbs and shades and in so doing ... ”
