Blitz: 3 (Rook Files)

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While I wish we saw more of Myfanwy Thomas, I understand why she did not feature heavily in this book. In line with another reviewer, I kept waiting for the connection between the two stories but there wasn’t one. Although I was born after the war, I found my self almost weeping for the loss of a London (my home city) I never knew. I love the period's brittle gaiety, its dirty glamour, a time of cultural and political revolution as people fought for a better world. The second story is more contemporary- when Lynnette Binns erupts in red lightening in her kitchen one day, the Checquy swoop in to collect her, teach her to control her power and, as one would imagine, completely disrupt her life.

Not necessarily bad, because I actually liked both, it just seemed like it was two novels stitched together more than one long story.

Born in Bedford in 1965, Sean Longden first became interested in history as a child listening to his grandfather’s tales of Gallipoli. Part eight in a 12-part oeuvre of the English upper class, as seen through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins. As a narrative history of the experience of the German bombing campaign against Britain, especially in the later part of 1940, this can't be bettered. I would read about interwar Europe, or America, or Britain, when I needed to work on my doctorate but was too tired to read about trenches or trauma, and it became an obsession.Today, it is almost impossible to imagine aircraft roaming freely over British cities, disgorging bombs onto the streets below. So many parts of this made me laugh, purely because of the way O'Malley can use language, contrasting the mundane with the extraordinary.

Elizabeth Bowen’s 1948 novel is one of the most gritty, uneasy, and compelling accounts I’ve read of the civilian experience of war. It's one of my all time favorites but absolutely perfect for anyone who likes Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files or Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series.Recruited by the Checquy and trained in a hidden island academy, she is sent into the field, where she herself becomes wanted for murder based on brandinglike effects on the victims. It also shows that in hard times, the act of creating something beautiful is often the very thing that helps us survive. My Story: Blitz” is the fictional diary of twelve year-old Edie (short for Edith) Benson, a girl from Lewisham in London. This book was his first and sprang from the BBC documentary, Battle for Malta , that he also wrote and presented. So, it’s vital for us to have access to the personal, unvarnished stories and contemporary accounts from those that actually lived through this particular horror.