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Frankie Parsons is 12, going on old man. An apparently sensible boy, he carries a drumbeat of worrying questions that steadily gain volume in his head. Only Ma takes his catalogue of persistent anxieties seriously, but it is Ma herself who is the cause of the most worrying question of all.

As U.S. forces close in on Japan, the Emperor's surrender is hijacked by extremists, leaving no option for the Americans but invasion of the Japanese homeland, & the terrible cost that will demand.

At the end of the war, Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England. After living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost.

Victor Green is 37, unmarried, and works at the tax office. The type of man who irons his underpants, Victor is nonetheless dragged into the melee when gang warfare breaks out on the Isle of Wight. Making friends and enemies along the way, Victor is powerless to resist as his once dull and dreary...