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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come... (more)

Lying with the Enemy: A Novel

by Tim Binding

In 1943, 145,000 Germans had been slaughtered in Stalingrad. The tide of the war was beginning to turn. But not on the quiet, idyllic island of Guernsey, the only British territory to be occupied by German troops in the Second World War. Here Nazi officers still party with local girls, love affairs blossom, and the amateur dramatic society continues to stage its theatricals, if with suspiciously jackbooted... (more)

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

by G. B. Edwards

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is... (more)

Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goude

The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945

The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945

by Madeleine Bunting

This is an account of the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II, involving collaboration, resistance, slave labour and the relentless struggle for survival. The recent Home Office release of documents pertaining to the German occupation of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Sark has led the author to inspect the records to identify key individuals on the islands, whom she has interviewed at length... (more)

Peace Hotel

by Alan Marquis

A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes

A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes

by Molly Bihet

MollyA fs touching account of life in Guernsey during the German Occupation brings events of the Second World War to life through the eyes of a young child. The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied during the Second World War and many Islanders were immediately imprisoned. MollyA fs story begins on a lovely afternoon on the 28th of June 1940, when she recalls waving a recently bought... (more)

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The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary... (more)

Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goudge

A Place of Hiding

by Elizabeth George

An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II. It is from this period of time that his... (more)

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Lying with the Enemy: A Novel

by Tim Binding

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

by G. B. Edwards

Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goude

The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945

by Madeleine Bunting

Peace Hotel

by Alan Marquis

A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes

by Molly Bihet

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goudge

A Place of Hiding

by Elizabeth George