Geoffrey Archer
Dark Angel

Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy post-war suburb of north London came to a shocking end on 14 September 1948, when his sister was brutally murdered in nearby woodland. A tramp was arrested, but for the young boy it was the end of childhood and the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what had actually happened that late summer day. Marcus Warwick was Tom's neighbour and best friend but the murder changed their relationship forever. Sent to Korea two years later, the two meet in the chaos of war, but a gulf of distrust and class has opened between them, and the one can barely trust the other with his life. Only years later, when Tom stumbles across his sister's secret diary, can he seek final justice for her murder.

Elizabeth Aston
The Exploits And Adventures Of Miss Alethea Darcy

High-spirited Alethea Darcy, with all the advantages of youth, beauty and a large fortune,
nonetheless makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming manners conceal a deeply unpleasant nature. Flinging caution to the wind, she flees the marital home. Masquerading as Aloysius Hawkins, gentleman, and accompanied only by her maid, Figgins, she sets off for Venice to take refuge with most worldly and understanding of her sisters. But event and sometimes dangerous-conspire to thwart her plans

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. He was classified mentally unsound and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There Dr William Rivers set about restoring Sassoon's 'sanity' and sending him back to the trenches. Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed trilogy, which continues with The Eye in the Door and culminates in the 1995 Booker prize-winning The Ghost Road.