Journey's End

7 best books like Journey's End (R.C. Sherriff): The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting, The Changeling, The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960, Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918: an anthology, The Tulip Touch, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Author	Wilfred Owen
ISBN	0811201325

Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...

Strange Meeting

Author	Susan Hill
ISBN	0140036954

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .'

Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England....

The Changeling

Author	Thomas Middleton
ISBN	0393900614

Next on:
Sunday, 20:00 on BBC Radio 3

SynopsisA new radio production of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's Jacobean classic, set in Alicante, Spain, in the 1920s.

Beatrice-Joanna is due to marry Alonzo e Piracquo, until she falls in love with Alsemero and seeks the help of...

The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960

Author

Dan Jones

From the mid-19th century, many of the most celebrated moments and personalities in modern history – from Gettysburg to Hiroshima, and from Lincoln to Churchill – have been captured for posterity by the camera lens. Marina Amaral uses digital techniques, underpinned by painstaking research,...

Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918: an anthology

Author	Brian Gardner
ISBN	0413595706

Years ago, one of my teachers spoke of the importance of five minute books. His point being that no time needed to be wasted. Waiting for a bus, read the book you carried with you for that purpose. Waiting in the dentist or doctor, the same book. In a traffic jam, don't get angry and road ragey, open your little...

The Tulip Touch

Author	Anne Fine
ISBN	0141320478

The story of a strange and disturbing friendship seen through the eyes of Natalie as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a deliquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She bunks off school, is rude to the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by...

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

Author	Lara Maiklem
ISBN	1631494961

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames’ muddy shores, where others only see the detritus of city life, Maiklem unearths evidence of England’s captivating, if sometimes...