The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

November 16, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

Here is a small fact. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and […]

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

December 19, 2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain — the price for his silence being Stella herself. Slowly the flimsy structures […]