Books like The great fire by Shirley Hazzard

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In 1935 England, a young woman’s allegation of a crime sets off a chain of events that devastates families, alters lives during the Second World War, and echoes into a later life of remorse and reflection.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's critically acclaimed second novel, set in India in the mid-1970s and focusing on four unlikely individuals who come together in a city apartment during a state of emergency.

A coming‑of‑age narrative set in 19th‑century England, following young David Copperfield as he navigates orphanhood, hardship and society’s social hierarchies.

Framboise Simon returns to a Loire‑bank village where her past as the daughter of a wartime figure remains concealed. A scrapbook of recipes and memories she inherited from her mother holds the key to a tragedy that scarred her childhood.

Miranda, a U.S. citizen, is married to a man from La Caridad, a tropical island, seeking independence for the island nation. The marriage of convenience tests the couple's commitment to freedom and love.

A Getty‑hung painter haunted by war memories confronts the past as Japan’s post‑war cityscapes rise anew.

Fire Logic launches an epic fantasy saga set in the imaginary world of Shaftal, where newly forged kingdoms clash, Native peoples face colonization and genocide, and a diverse cast of LGBT2Q+ heroes must navigate war and political intrigue.

A baseball‑centric American novel that explores the lives of fictional players and teams, delving into the sport’s scandals and drama.

The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz; the most original contribution to the globalisation debate in years.Amy Chua's remarkable and provocative book explores the tensions of the post-Cold War globalising world. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations can turn ugly and violent. Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities - 'market-dominant minorities'. Adding democracy to this volatile mix can unleash suppressed ethnic hatred and bring to power 'ethno-nationalist' governments that pursue aggressive policies of confiscation and revenge. Chua also shows how individual countries may also be viewed as market-dominant minorities, a fact that may help to explain the rising tide of anti-American sentiment around the world and the visceral hatred of Americans expressed in recent acts of terrorism. Chua is not an anti-globalist. But she presciently warns that, far from making the world a better and safer place, democracy and capitalism - at least in the raw, unrestrained form in which they are currently being exported - are intensifying ethnic resentment and global violence, with potentially catastrophic results.

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

After a Dunkirk injury, Laurie Odell recuperates in a rural veterans’ hospital where a friendship with conscientious‑objector Andrew blossoms into a discreet romance, only to be challenged by the return of an old mentor and a tight‑knit gay circle.

In 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly survives an assassination attempt. Decades later, a British professor seeks the hidden film and papers left by conspirator Axel von Gottberg and his friend, uncovering themes of friendship, betrayal, and the enduring quest for truth.