'Art? What has art ever done for us as a family?'In the First World War, artist-soldier Joseph Gray drew and painted scenes of battle, his illustrations appearing in the popular press and his canvases sold to museums. But after struggling through the next decade and facing the threat of another war, Joseph had found a secret new calling: the art of camouflage.As he went from representing reality to disguising it, Joseph's growing interest in camouflage concealed another, deeper subterfuge. He was leading a double life, and would eventually leave his family for the woman that he loved.Joseph Gray's Camouflage is a multi-layered story of art, war, love and deception. Beyond attempting to pin down the image of a man who eludes us at every turn, it also traces the development of camouflage between the two wars and shines a light on the unlikely band of artists who made it happen.Though private letters, diaries, archives and...

In the realm of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, The Book of Lies is a poignant and darkly funny novel about the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island shadowed by war.When you live on an island as small as Guernsey, it's hard to imagine that secrets can stay secret. But they can and they do. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Rozier wants people to know what happened the night her friend Nicolette disappeared on the cliffs. But the story she starts telling isn't hers alone. There are other people on the island who have got away with murder. Her uncle Charlie, for one. Narrated by both Catherine and Charlie, The Book of Lies moves between the 1980s and the wartime Occupation, introducing us to two original and compelling voices, and an unforgettable story.'An unforgettable and brilliant debut.' Hanif Kureishi