Allan Massie
1) Klaus
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English
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This is the story of Klaus Mann, son of Thomas and a bold political activist who strove beyond his father's shadow to become an important author. Klaus was an exile, forced abroad while the Nazis defiled his homeland; a homosexual in a time of bigotry and intolerance; a heroin addict slithering between recovery and relapse. Above all he was a writer. Allan Massie vividly imagines Klaus's final days - traipsing from cafe to bar in the haze of his various...
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English
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From the author of Caesar and The Sins of the Father, a fictional memoir of the celebrated Scottish Romantic writer and historical novelist.
Allan Massie recreates the life and times of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland's greatest writers, convincingly capturing Scott's humor, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative plausibility with his own deep knowledge of and love for Scott's work, Massie reveals the intimate thoughts of a man at...
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English
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Widely acclaimed as Massie's finest novel, A Question of Loyalties engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty, nationality and family as they are put under threat by betrayal, by errors of judgement, or simply friendship.
Etienne de Balafr, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his own father. Was Lucien de Balafr a patriot who served his country as best...
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English
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A Nazi war criminal's son and a Holocaust survivor's daughter decide to get married in the pleasant, middle-class conformity of sixties Argentina. When the two families come together, Becky's blind father recognizes the voice of the former SS officer, and sets off a chain of events that to varying degrees damage everyone at that meeting. Franz has to discover the real past of his distant father, who is kidnapped by Mossad agents and taken to Israel...
5) Surviving
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Language
English
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"The separateness of lives once joined appalled him, like the sun dipping behind a black cloud …"How well do we know other people - even when we all belong to a small expat community in a foreign capital? Allan Massie's edgy and disturbing study of English-speaking alcoholics living in Rome examines this great literary theme - and does much more besides. A knife keeps all bodies at a distance, unless and until …This is a story of corrupting power...
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English
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
7) The Caesars
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Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1984, c1983
Language
English
Description
Thsi book is the author's attempt in defining they type of men the first emperors of Rome were.
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Series
Bordeaux quartet volume 2
Publisher
Quartet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. Allan Massie's second volume in his trilogy continues the story of dogged detection in a world seemingly gone mad.
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Series
Bordeaux quartet volume 4
Publisher
Quartet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion, bringing the promise of Liberation, is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have served it and collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Atrocities are committed on both sides, and justice is blind. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing...
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Series
Canongate classics volume 91
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumors of a collaboration with the Nazis in Norway.