BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Hidden Book

    (By Kirsty Manning)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 20 MB (20,079 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 570 times
    Last checked 7 Hour ago!
    Author Kirsty Manning
    “Book Descriptions: From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history ... to be found in an Australian country shed in 2019.

    Europe, 1940 Imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, Spanish fighter and photographer Mateo Baca is ordered to process images of the camp and inmates for a handful of photo books being made for presentation to top Nazi figures. Just five books in total, or so the officials think ...
     
    Mateo manages to make a secret sixth book and, with the help of a local woman, Lena Lang, it remains hidden until the end of the war.
     
    Australia, present When thirteen-year-old Hannah Campbell's Yugoslavian grandfather, Nico Antonov, arrives in Australia to visit his family, one of the gifts he brings with him is an intriguing-looking parcel wrapped in calico cloth which Roza, Hannah's mother, quickly hides.
     
    Later, Hannah sneaks off in search for the mysterious package. She is horrified to find in it a photo book full of ghastly historical photographs of a terrible place full of people suffering.
     
    At first Hannah has little context for what she sees, but over the years as she experiences love, grief and trauma, she understands what these photos came to mean, for herself, her freedom and for those who risked their lives to 'bear witness' to history.

    A startling story of clandestine courage and treachery in World War Two, and how we must meet and overcome our pasts to move into our futures.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Booklover's Library

    ★★★★★

    Madeline Martin

    Book 1

    A Place to Hide

    ★★★★★

    Ronald H. Balson

    Book 1

    The Talented Mrs Greenway

    ★★★★★

    Tea Cooper

    Book 1

    A Woman of Courage

    ★★★★★

    Tania Blanchard

    Book 1

    The Paris Gown

    ★★★★★

    Christine Wells

    Book 1

    The Secret War of Julia Child

    ★★★★★

    Diana R. Chambers

    Book 1

    The Beauties

    ★★★★★

    Lauren Chater

    Book 1

    Mademoiselle Eiffel

    ★★★★★

    Aimie K. Runyan

    Book 1

    The Last Light Over Oslo

    ★★★★★

    Alix Rickloff

    Book 1

    Beyond Summerland

    ★★★★★

    Jenny Lecoat

    Book 1

    The Hidden Storyteller

    ★★★★★

    Mandy Robotham

    Book 1

    The Radio Hour

    ★★★★★

    Victoria Purman

    Book 1

    Snapshots from Home

    ★★★★★

    Sasha Wasley