Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the RELEVANT FICTION AND POETRY list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 15: RELEVANT FICTION AND POETRY This is a small selection of fiction and poetry which is closely related to the issues dealt with in this part of the shop - it includes a few items written by notable pacifists and peace campaigners. [See also the shop's main fiction and poetry sections.] Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. Many are Called, Pat Arrowsmith (Onlywomen Press, 1998), pbk £3.00 A humorous novel from this notorious pacifist activist and writer. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse (Penguin Classics, 2003), pbk £10.99 A recent translation of the classic 1916 French novel Le Feu. Born 1925 - A Novel of Youth, Vera Brittain (Macmillan, 1948), hbk £3.50 The Dark Tide, Vera Brittain (Virago, 1999), £6.99 This partly autobiographical 1923 novel is a story of post-war love and friendship. Honourable Estate, Vera Brittain (Virago, 2000), £8.99 Vera Brittain's second novel, first published in 1936 - a story of three generations struggling with the realities of twentieth-century marriage. Still Dews - An Anthology of Peace, (Ed) Fiona Castle (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002), pbk £6.99 A collection of poems, songs and prose, dealing with personal peace, social peace and world peace. The Peaceable Kingdom, Jan de Hartog (Book Club Associates, 1973), hbk £3.00 A novel set in 17th Century England, imagining events which might have transpired during the founding of the Quakers. There's a Tree in the Meadow - A Book of Destiny, Tina Hyder (Advocate House, Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2007), pbk £5.00 A simultaneously slight and cloying "love story" riddled with religiosity, written by someone "no longer affiliated with any political party" claiming to include "the simple secret for world peace". Get Your War On, David Rees (Soft Skull Press, New York, USA, 2002), pbk £8.00 Comic strips, post-11 September 2001. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (Vintage Classics, 1996), pbk £7.99 The latest translation (though retaining the well-established and not-quite-literal translation of the title from the first English-language version), by Brian Murdoch, of Remarque's searing evocation of the horrors of 20th century warfare. Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth), pbk £2.50 Shaw wrote this play - about an "armaments king" and the Salvation Army - in 1905. This edition of the text of the play includes Shaw's own lengthy preface. Recollections, John Spencer (Abecasis Verlag, Okayama, Japan, 2006), pmphlt £4.95 Poems by a Second World War concientious objector, some relating to his time working on farms during the war. Eunice Fleet, Lily Tobias (Honno Classics, 2004), pbk £8.99 A novel about the treatment of conscientious objectors in the First World War, by an author two of whose brothers were COs. This classic has been reprinted after being out of print for more than half a century.