Just read ‘The Boy At The Top of The Mountain’ byJohn Boyne - such a good read!!
Looking for a new read with a World War Two theme!
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All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Hornet Flight - Ken Follett
Jackdaws - Ken Follett
Fall of Giants / Winter of the World / Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett (the Century Trilogy)
The Key to Rebecca - Ken Follett
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
The Unlikely Spy - Daniel Silva
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka’s Journey - Heather Morris
Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad - Daniel Finkelstein
House of Glass - Hadley Freeman
Only Time Will Tell / The Sins of the Father (part of The Clifton Chronicles) - Jeffrey Archer
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Agree with All The Light We Cannot See - we did a podcast on SheerLuxe Book Club here!
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An oldie but a goodie!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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If you liked The Boy At The Top of The Mountain, you might enjoy All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It’s beautifully written and really captures the impact of WWII.
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Have you ever read Sebastian Faulks? He is the mast of war and post-war books!
Where My Heart Used to Beat is one of my favourites.
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The Paris Bookshop is a great one.
The last Restaurant in Paris. Set in WW2 Paris
The Riviera Set, This is one is about Coco Chanel during WW2.
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is one of my favourite books from any genre. It highlights the role that women played in the French underground - truly amazing what they did, a lot of which was because it was felt that women wouldn’t be capable!!! Also by Kaye Quinn is the Rose Code based in Bletchley Park and The Diamond Eye based in Russia & the USA.
I have also read and would recommend Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown (from Stranger Things). It’s based in the East End of London during the war.
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It has to be Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong, easily in my top three books of all time! 
Also try, Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - Horace Greasley, all the more harrowing as it is a true story.
I’ve just read the Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn - highly recommend!
Have you read The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard? That should keep you going!
Just finished reading The Nightingale by Kirsten Hannah. Amazing! 
This is quite a heavy one, but a beautiful true story - ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ - it was made into a film in 2017, but the book gives you so much more!