RadianceKeiko steps on to a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of the news photographers' cameras. An eighteen year old survivor of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to be the first Hiroshima Maiden, liberal America's new poster girl, brought to the States to receive sponsored treatment for her radiation scars. Radiance is a

and "traitor

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pertinent and philosophical: he gives a vivid picture of a Japan still haunted by nostalgia and nationalism

A swashbuckling tale of risk and ruin on the high seas The Shining Sea brings to life the monomaniacal quest of one of the most misunderstood commanders of the War of 1812

His accessible narrative provides an excellent potted history of the Civil War peppered with asides on the practicalities of soldiering in the 17th century

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His life took an abrupt turn after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down

foreign policy during an era of transformation

journeys to sums and food and drink to wise ways