Great reads

Zoe West shares her favourite picks for the week

33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (£16.99, HB, Bloomsbury) It’s 1939 in Nazioccupied Brussels. Art student Charlotte Sauvin and her father wake up at 33 Place Brugmann to discover their neighbours on the fourth and fifth floors have disappeared. Now refugees, they are reinventing themselves overseas but thinking of 33 Place Brugmann. As danger approaches, Charlotte has her own secrets to guard in this captivating exploration of World War Two. Philosophical, mysterious and a powerful story of survival. The Manual for Good Wives by Lola Jaye(£18.99, HB, Pan Macmillan) When Landri discovers a secret journal written by her ancestor, Temi, an African princess, she learns that she escaped an abusive marriage and fled Western Africa for England. Reading the entries that separate them by more than a century, Landri recognises…

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