Heinrich Boll

A hauntingly beautiful tale about a young German soldier, from a Nobel Prize-winning author, introduced by Anna Funder. Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around...

An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are allowed to run rampant through a person's life. It resonates as strongly today as it did in 1970s Germany. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum tells the story of Katharina Blum, a...