Imperial War Museum Anniversary Edition

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable story from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This special edition features a foreword from Eoin Colfer. 
 
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. 
 
Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. And Alfie becomes determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

Pat Barker meets Michelle Magorian . . . Comic as well as poignantly enlightening

[A] timely examination of moral, physical and mental bravery and pain

John Boyne is the author of fifteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in sixty languages. 
 
 
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The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the very next day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then a chance encounter at King's Cross Station offers hope - Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - and Alfie becomes determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

Theresa Breslin

Lesley Barnes

A novel that will stay with me for a long time

An immensely readable, passionately written epic

[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war

Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from very different backgrounds meet for an idyllic picnic, but the war across the Channel is proving increasingly impossible to ignore, and all too soon they will be engulfed by The Great War. 
 
Determined to forge their own paths during a time of enormous upheaval, the five friends encounter not only the horrors of the trenches, but also the thrum of first love, and the political struggles of pacifism and women's rights. Their lives will be changed forever - and nothing will ever be the same again.

Lesley Barnes

Praise for Remembrance

A novel that will stay with me for a long time

An immensely readable, passionately written epic

[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war

A novel that will stay with me for a long time

An immensely readable, passionately written epic

[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war

A novel that will stay with me for a long time

An immensely readable, passionately written epic

[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war

Books by Lesley Barnes

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