... is written in the unusual first person plural voice. The voice is that of the collective spouses of the scientists drafted to invent the atomic bomb, the weapon that would ultimately end the Second World War.  Los Alamos was barely a settlement when the families began arriving on the...read more

The Narrow Road to the Deep North review – Richard Flanagan's powerful second world war novel. Flanagan's ambitious novel inspired by the Australian PoWs forced by the Japanese to work on the Burma Railway is both complex and masterful... Flanagan is a fine writer (if we can forgive him the...read more

It's a war that never ends – cinematically speaking, that is. The second world war may have ceased hostilities on 2 September 1945, with the formal surrender of Japan in a ceremony on the USS Missouri, but the film world has never stopped fighting. Nearly 70 years on, the demand for second world...read more