The Watch

6 best books like The Watch (Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya): Us Conductors, Maggot Moon, The Photograph, To Have and to Hold, Second Chance, Die Töchter der Tuchvilla

Us Conductors

Author	Sean Michaels
ISBN	1935639811

Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his “one true love,” Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first half of the book,...

Maggot Moon

Author	Sally Gardner
ISBN	0763665533

One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.

What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there...

The Photograph

Author	Penelope Lively
ISBN	0142004421

Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked "DON'T OPEN - DESTROY." But Kath's husband does not heed the warning, embarking...

To Have and to Hold

Author	Jane Green
ISBN	0767912276

What happens when your Prince Charming turns out not to be so charming after all? In To Have and To Hold, bestselling author Jane Green offers a sizzling, highly entertaining look at romantic relationships after we say “I do.”

Alice knows she should be happy. A charming twenty-eight-year-old...

Second Chance

Author	Jane Green
ISBN	0670038571

Jane Green has become a nationally bestselling author with legions of fans through her novels about the true-life dilemmas of real women—their relationships, their careers, their loves, their triumphs and disappointments. In her latest book, Green tells the story of a group of people who haven’t...

Die Töchter der Tuchvilla

Author

Anne Jacobs

Eine mächtige Familie. Dramatische Verwicklungen. Ein Haus, das mehr als ein Geheimnis birgt.

Augsburg, 1916. Die Tuchvilla, der Wohnsitz der Industriellenfamilie Melzer, ist in ein Lazarett verwandelt worden. Die Töchter des Hauses pflegen gemeinsam mit dem Personal die Verwundeten,...