Frederic Manning

• 1977
• / General Fiction

'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a f****n' fine mob.'Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known.Frederic M...

• Oct-1990
• / General Fiction

Born in Australia, novelist and poet Frederic Manning moved to England in his youth and was an off-and-on presence there for much of his life. Spurred to defend his adopted homeland, Manning enlisted to serve in World War I. This fictionalized accoun...

• Nov-1999
• / Literary

Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publication, and the inspiration for the 1944 movie  The White Cliffs of Dover. The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the er...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction

“The finest and noblest book of men at war” Ernest Hemingway The classic novel of the Great War, set during the battle of the Somme. Her Privates We follows the story of Private Bourne, an ordinary soldier dealing with extraordinary circumstances...