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O’Neill, Josephonslaught. His shocking account of thewar that followed and its terrifyingfallout, is a heartbreaking and fascinatingtestament to a people enduringdeprivation and destruction, told by theman who was there before, during andafter.NetherlandOsborne, Frances The BolterIn a New York City madephantasmagorical by the events of9/11, Hans, a banker originally from theNetherlands finds himself maroonedamong the strange occupants of theChelsea Hotel after his wife and sonreturn to London. Alone and untethered,feeling lost in the country he had come toregard as home, Hans stumbles upon thevibrant New York subculture of cricket,where he revisits his childhood and,thanks to a friendship with a Trinidadiannamed Chuck, reconnects with his lifeand his adopted country.‘The Bolter is the real Idina’s story toldby her great-grand-daughter FrancesOsborne. It whirls the reader throughthe London social scene during the FirstWorld War and the decadence of Kenya’sHappy Valley via Idina’s five marriagesand innumerable love affairs.64