Books in the Phoenix Fiction S. series

This novel portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Using the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Irwin Shaw conveys the scope, confusion and complexity of war.

Homi Seervai is a Parsi scientist, who invents a machine which activates the memory store of the brain. When a love affair finishes, Homi uses the machine to relive good times, but the machine goes wrong, and he experiences ancestral and racial memories. This is the author's first novel.

Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855, with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees, undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly- minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.

This volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses", "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The Eighty-Yard Run".

A semi-autobiographical account of the Vietnam War, this novel reveals how war can make everything explosive - even love - and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again.

The Berlin Wall is represented in this novel as more personal than politically symbolic. Real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves. The Wall has divided their emotions as well as their country.

This sequel to "The Raj Quartet" describes the fate of Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a British couple who remain in India after the war. The comic, spirited characters reveal the intricate class tensions of the British and the Raj, and the mute loyalty and resentful dependence of ageing couples.

Reminiscent of Voltaire, Broges and Kafka, "A Dog's Head" is a piece of realism. It tells the story of Edmund Du Chaillu, a boy born, to his bourgeois parents' horror, with the head of a spaniel. Edmund must endure his schoolmates' teasing as well as an urge to carry a newspaper in his mouth.