William Boyd
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. A spell at boarding school ends...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Description
Moving from Vienna to London's West End, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, 'Waiting for Sunrise' is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian �migr�e living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Description
What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone - and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea, London, when a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns his life upside down for ever. The police are searching for...