Jill Wallace: 3 books

DIVIDED BY WAR. UNITED BY MUSIC. ENDANGERED BY PASSION. When bon vivant Italian opera star-turned-pilot Pietro is shot down during World War II, he nearly loses his life. Worse, he's lost his passion for music and is close to losing his sanity in a soul-crushing prisoner-of-war camp in South...

Jill Wallace's memoir of her full life is a fascinating and uplifting read. Managing well after a childhood accident, she was initially refused disability allowance, and began a long fight for justice as a result.  Jill was well known on the tea dance scene over much of the north of England for many...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...