During a bombing raid over Yorkshire in WW2, a German pilot is shot down and protected by a farming family for what reason and what risk? Karen Turner has written a big book of sacrifice and love and what the past can teach us in ‘Stormbird’.  

Garry Disher’s cold case mystery in, ‘The Way It Is Now’, counterpoints the past and the present when a now mature but suspended policeman finds more similarities with his constable father than he realized.