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The Children’s Invasion Book
Posted On: February 18, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
In this second short film featuring Faber archivist Robert Brown, he introduces us to another of Faber’s wartime publications – The Children’s Invasion Book. Published in 1944, this book wasn’t a guide to help British children prepare for the possibility of a German invasion of the UK, but a display of the Allied military hardware which was about to be unleashed on D-Day…
Read More...David Peace on Occupied City
Posted On: January 28, 2010Posted In: Audio, Extracts, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
George Miller talks to David Peace about the background to and writing of his latest novel, the second in his Tokyo Trilogy, Occupied City, and we have clips of David Peace reading from the novel too.
Read More...The Booklist – Winter Warmer
Posted On: January 26, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Curl up in front of the fire, and spend some time with a loner in the woods, his cabin insulated by his books; explore the Canadian Northwest with an anthropologist gone native; warm yourself with a wonderful tales from WWII and the Napoleonic Wars; then witness explorers pushing themselves to the limit, all from the comfort of your armchair!
Read More...Andrew Roberts on If Hitler Comes
Posted On: December 18, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
A classic of ‘imaginary history’, If Hitler Comes was first published only 2 months after the Fall of France, whilst the Battle of Britain was being fought. Now republished for the first time in 68 years and, in the view of historian Andrew Roberts it deserves its place at the head of what has become an emerging literary genre.
Read More...Barbara Kingsolver on The Lacuna
Posted On: November 16, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Barbara Kingsolver wasn’t able to come to the UK for publication of her spellbinding new novel The Lacuna (though she hope to visit in 2010), so Faber did the next best thing – went to her with their questions.
Read More...The Booklist: After the War
Posted On: October 30, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The act of War has affected hundreds of millions of people in so many different ways over the centuries. These memories should never be allowed to be forgotten. Bookhugger’s publishers present some of the most haunting fiction and non-fiction you will ever read…
Read More...September non-fiction round-up
Posted On: September 29, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
If fiction’s not your thing, September sees a wealth of fascinating new non-fiction hitting the shelves, including : biographies of characters as diverse as a novelist, a poker star, a movie mogul and a top tailor; and histories of the liberation of Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Read More...Read an extract from The Maze of Cadiz, by Aly Monroe
Posted On: September 17, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: John Murray
Franco’s Spain is the setting for Aly Monroe’s debut thriller, following the adventures of British intelligence officer Peter Cotton. You can read an extract of this historical mystery here on Bookhugger…
Read More...Celebrating WW2’s greatest bomber – the Lancaster
Posted On: September 9, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: John Murray
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland.
Read More...Nicholas Rankin on British deception in WW2
Posted On: June 2, 2009Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
The author of Churchill’s Wizards talks about the vital role that deception played in preserving Britain during the darkest hours of World War Two.
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