Young David Morgan, gifted heir apparent to a South African fortune, rebels against the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family. Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, he...

On 25 May 1982, at a critical juncture in the Falklands War, the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinean aircraft. In a devastating strike, she was hit by three bombs, two of which...

It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by...

During the war against Japan, a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Constantly fighting dysentery and exhaustion, many die on the way but the rest survive. Led by Jean...

On a rain-swept night on the Sussex Downs in the uneasy peace between the wars, Peter Moran stopped his car to give a lift to a man. His unexpected passenger turned out to be an old wartime...

A Man Could Stand Up, the third volume of Parade's End, brings Ford's characters to the 'crack across the table of History', across which lie their uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three...