Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlDiscovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Franks remarkable diary has become a world classica powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen year old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and

and such extravagant purchases as a broken-down Rolls-Royce

as well as heartache close to home

in a world shaped by casual nihilism

his army vast

I wanted to live to tree time

Sam’s editor sends him to profile disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle

destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth

a remarkable read

inspired by the intense life

In McCall Smith's hands such characters retain charm and novelty

Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution

who owns the brownstone where she lives—even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways