Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Anna FunderWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON FICTION In this classic work, Funder brings us the extraordinary stories of those who lived in East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixteen, hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall, and gets drunk with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the East, once declared by the authorities to his face to 'no longer to exist'. And

where everybody is quite different from everybody else

"In none of his other works

DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES

and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life

despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient

But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated

Harris confirms her position as one of Britain's most popular novelists' -- DAILY MAIL

But as Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming

Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees

and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring

Archimedes

Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives ' IRISH TIMES ' Droll