The Mercies - Independent Bookshop Edition Saul David Bradford-born John Braine ranks alongside

Bradford-born John Braine ranks alongside Kingsley Amis

Rarely if ever have Allied soldiers acquitted themselves better than the British

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But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote

The Mercies - Independent Bookshop Edition Saul David Bradford-born John Braine ranks alongside'A gripping novel inspired by a real life witch hunt . . . Beautiful and chilling' Madeline Miller, author of Circe On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vard wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure