2014 marks one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, making this Remembrance Sunday all the more poignant. But while much of the world's attention is focused on that first conflict, Keira Andrews' latest book, Semper Fi, takes the Second World War as its source and setting, particularly the conflict between America and Japan. Splitting the action between the hellish experience faced by marines Cal and Jim and their post-war reconciliation in 1948, this friends-to-lovers story expertly explores both hope and despair, and a love born from terrible circumstances.

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Pat Barker is one of the masters of wartime fiction. Her award-winning Regeneration Trilogy revolutionised the genre and was an epic and devastating examination of post-traumatic stress disorder against the backdrop of trench warfare. Her 2013 release Toby's Room is a companion novel to her earlier book Life Class, though both books can be read independently of each other. Again using the First World War as its subject, this book's primary focus is on the relationship between war and art.

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A Forbidden Rumspringa, by Keira Andrews, is not only her best book to date, but also one of the most beautifully written romances I have had the pleasure to read. This Amish-set m/m romance transcends the general expectations of the genre to be a story of religion, obligation, and choice. But it is a romance at its heart, and a unique one at that.

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