Whistle
by James Jones | 
A Midnight Clear
by William Wharton | 
The Illusion of Separateness
by Simon Van Booy | 
Day
by A. L. Kennedy | 
Pastoral
by Nevil Shute | 
Fair Stood the Wind for France
by H. E. Bates | 
Williwaw
by Gore Vidal | 
An Indecent Obsession
by Colleen McCullough | 
Landfall
by Nevil Shute | 
Hiroshima Joe
by Martin Booth | 
Night Sky
by Clare Francis | 
Pied Piper
by Nevil Shute | 
Where My Heart Used to Beat
by Sebastian Faulks | 
The Cruel Sea
by Nicholas Monsarrat | 
Four Freedoms
by John Crowley | 
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
by Gail Tsukiyama | 
The Gardens of Kyoto
by Kate Walbert | 
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn | 
What is the What
by Dave Eggers | 
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada |
This is war as experienced in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java in 1942, but, above all, war as experienced in the souls of men. What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirits the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds of love and friendship are forged between the prisoners - and their gaolers. It is a battle of survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationship develops.