Donald Wheal
World's End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood

Not for Donald Wheal the privileged world of Chelsea a few hundred yards away. His childhood in the World's End took place amidst grimy factories and generating plants, illegal street bookmakers, dog tracks, tenements and street walkers. It was a closed community with its own internal logic and baffling feuds. World's End is the story of how he and his family struggled free from this underclass. It is also an individual history of the Second World War, of a small boy's grappling with the bitter separation of evacuation, the return to an already battered London, the wonderland of bomb-damaged houses to play in, and the nights of terror as the Blitz returned.Then one night in 1944 his world did literally end - and with it his childhood.

Clive Cussler
Sacred Stone

A young scientist unearths a 50,000-year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone, which possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. The find places him in the cr-osshairs of two opposing terrorist groups: Muslim extremists and a group seeking to annihilate Islam. Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries must fight to protect the Sacred Stone - and prevent the outbreak of World War III.

Katie Flynn
Darkest Before Dawn

The Todd family have moved to Scotland Road. Harry gets a job in a warehouse and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney's Department store and young Evie starts school. When war is declared the older girls join up, leaving Evie and Martha to cope with rationing and the terrible raids on Liverpool.