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Barbara Durlacher introduces us to novels by South African author Mark Behr and Englishman Ian McEwan.

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Barbara Durlacher recommends a novel which vividly portrays the social mores of the upper classes in the Edwardian age, L P Hartley's The Go-Between.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/026-7621573-0594032?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+Go-Between&Go.x=11&Go.y=14

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Barbara Durlacher recommends the novels of Olivia Manning, which give one of the finest accounts of life in the Middle East preceding and during World War Two.

The Balkan Trilogy - Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, Friends and Heroes.

The Levant Trilogy – The Danger Tree, Battles Lost and Won, The Sum of Things.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-8722725-2083861?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=olivia+manning&Go.x=7&Go.y=9

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Barbara Durlacher introduces us to Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, a narrative seen from a variety of viewpoints, set in pre-World War Two Egypt.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-8722725-2083861?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+alexandria+quartet

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Barbara Durlacher recommends two novels by the American novelist David Guterson, both of them set in the North West of the USA.

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Barbara Durlacher introduces us to the diaries of Marie 'Missie' Vassilitchikov, a lady who lived in Berlin during the harsh war years.

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