The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers, a Company of Liars, comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is –in fact – travelling with them.

Submarine is set to be the freshest and funniest debut of 2008, Joe Dunthorne’s book is a hilarious rollercoaster ride told through the eyes of Oliver Tate, a 14 year-old with a penchant for spying on his parents and girls with eczema. Quite simply, brilliant.

Child of All Nations is the first English translation of this 1938 German novel, capturing a view of Europe on the eve of war from a 10-year-old girl's (the narrator's) unique perspective.

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