John Boyne

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely...

An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...

"An honorable Irish priest ... finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to 'the good.' Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the...

"A young orphan ends up living in Hitler's home during WWII"--

When life at home becomes too difficult, eight-year-old Noah sets out to see the world and have an adventure, and in the forest he meets a toymaker who has a story and some advice to share.

Pierrot é filho de mãe francesa e pai alemão. Quando fica órfão, com apenas sete anos de idade, tem de abandonar Paris para ir viver com uma tia, a única familiar que lhe resta, numa casa nos Alpes Bávaros. Mas não estamos numa época qualquer: decorre o ano de 1936 e a Segunda Guerra Mundial está na iminência de eclodir; nem tão-pouco estamos numa casa qualquer: a casa no cimo da montanha, onde a tia trabalha e para onde Pierrot se...

Berlin 1942: Als Bruno eines Tages nach Hause kommt, werden gerade alle seine Habseligkeiten in Kisten verpackt. Sein Vater wurde befördert und die Familie muss umziehen, an einen weit entfernten Ort, wo es niemanden gibt, mit dem er spielen kann. Ein hoher Zaun trennt ihn von den seltsamen Menschen in gestreiften Anzügen in der Ferne. Aber Bruno beschließt, dass es mehr an diesem verlassenen Ort geben muss, als es den Anschein hat. Er trifft auf...

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

A Dickensian ghost story from the bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky
“A wonderfully creepy novel…magnificently eerie.” —The Observer
This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at...