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As Europe teeters on the brink of war, twin sisters Lotte, who is planning to marry a Jewish musician, and Anna, beholden to the Third Reich, reunite after more than ten years apart, only to find their bond fractured.

MI6 agent William Catesby is tasked with doing whatever is necessary to prevent Argentina from obtaining more lethal Exocet missiles and threatening British lives in the Falklands, set against a backdrop of political differences in Westminster.

Family man Pal is weighed down by debt; lovestruck teenagers Sandra and William are determined to be together; and pregnant petty criminal Cecilie dreams of escaping her past. When the paths of the disparate characters cross, each is changed forever.

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Set over five historical periods, characters from a young scribe in the sixth century BCE to a 1990s Hollywood star living with AIDS struggle to make sense of the religious condemnation of their homosexuality.

In this appeal for us to reject religion’s ‘chimeras’, the businessman and philanthropist Vitaly Malkin argues that the adoption of monotheistic doctrines slowed down the progress of human civilization and has failed to make people happier. Examining the big questions of evil, death, suffering and ‘the great battle against pleasure’, he encourages the reader to question what benefit religious practices offer and to live in the present rather than wait for life after death. Slightly off-mint.

This wry account of a rail tour of the USA takes the author from New York to LA, from Niagara Falls to New Orleans. He meets card-playing Amish, traces his Irish roots with the Mormons, and visits a number of microbreweries along the way.

In Wilson’s critically acclaimed Cold War thriller, MI6 agent William Catesby is given the job of finding – then burying – a secret from the past of Lady Somers, who is the new head of the Ministry of Defence; but the search takes a dangerous turn, even confronting him with the enigma of China’s emergence as a superpower.

Often compared to Le Carré, Edward Wilson’s series of intelligent, skilfully plotted Cold War thrillers follows the career of MI6 officer William Catesby. In this book, his task is to outwit agents on both sides of the Atlantic as they plot to remove the British PM – Harold Wilson – from power.

Simon Gandolfi first visited India in the 1960s, driving a VW to Goa, where he met and fell in love with Vanessa. Forty years later, fury at the terrorist attacks on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai leads him to return, this time on a Honda 125. Gandolfi’s unique and charming travelogue interweaves the two trips, combining bittersweet memories of the past with a window on the India of today.