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Nigel Balchin
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Darkness Falls from the Air
- Jan-1942
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The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwart...
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The Small Back Room
- Jan-1943
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A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggle...
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The Borgia Testament
- Jan-1948
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Engrossing historical novel set in the time of the Italian Renaissance which is a study of two different types of man -- Cesare, the ruthless, cynical materialist, driven relentlessly on by an idea which he knows he cannot live to realise; and, his f...
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A Way Through the Wood, or, Separate Lies
- Jan-1951
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A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham Greene' Philippa Gregory'Balchin writes about timeless things, the ...
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Seen Dimly Before Dawn
- 1962
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Walter Parrish is fifteen, handsome, athletic and highly intelligent. But his head is also stuffed full of ideas gleaned from romantic poetry and so, when he spends the summer on his uncle Patrick's fruit farm, it is perhaps not surprising that he qu...
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