Book Events for sundowneruk

11th century

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

15th century

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

17th century

• Shogun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

18th century

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

19th century

• Great expectations by Charles Dickens
• War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman by Aylmer Maude

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

Afghan Civil War

• The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

Alien Invasion

• Armada by Ernest Cline
• The war of the worlds by H. G. Wells

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Time and time again by Ben Elton

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Number Of The Beast by Robert A Heinlein

asteroid impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven

baseball

• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Battle of Agincourt

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman by Aylmer Maude

Battle of Britain

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Battle of Cape Matapan

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Kursk

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Battle of Passchendaele

• The first casualty by Ben Elton (1917)

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Blitz

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Bombes - early computers

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Bombing of Coventry

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

California Gold Rush

• The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt

Chinese Civil War

• The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Code Breaking

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Cold War

• Footfall by Larry Niven
• The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Underworld by Don DeLillo

Colussus machines - early computer

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Coronation of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Credit crunch

• A week in December by Sebastian Faulks

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

Death of King George III

• A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Destruction of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Election of Bill Clintion

• The snowman by Jo Nesbø

Elizabethan Era

• Shogun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams

English Renaissance

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) (The Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Enigma Codes / Machine

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Fimbulwinter

• The weirdstone of Brisingamen : a tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

First atomic explosion

• The End Of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

French Revolution

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Galactic Civil War

• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

German invasion of Russia

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Gold Rush

• The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt (1855)

Halley's Comet

• 2061 : odyssey three by Arthur Charles Clarke

Holocaust

• Two brothers by Ben Elton (1945)
• The book thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Hundred Years' War

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare ( 1453)

Kane North injured by IED in Iraq

• Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (2003)

Korean War

• MASH by Richard Hooker (1953)

Martian invasion of Earth

• The war of the worlds by H. G. Wells

Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother

• The casual vacancy by J. K. Rowling

Middle Ages

• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare

Muromachi period

• Shogun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman by Aylmer Maude (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman by Aylmer Maude

Pabodie Antarctic Expedition

• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (1931-1932)

Pearl Harbor

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

Perpetual War

• The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1) by Joseph R. Lallo (Fictitious event)

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ragnarok

• The weirdstone of Brisingamen : a tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

Re-election of George Walker Bush

• The snowman by Jo Nesbø

Reign of Terror

• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) (The Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Saur Revolution

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1978-04-28)

The Scattering

• Chapter house dune by Frank Herbert
• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Sengoku period

• Shogun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

September 11 Attacks

• Nemesis (Harry Hole) by Jo Nesbo (2001-09-11)

Siege of Leningrad

• The redbreast by Jo Nesbø (1944)

Soviet-Afghan War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1989)
• The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])

Spanish Civil War

• The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Threadfall

• Dragonflight (Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Charles Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Charles Clarke

Victorian Era

• Great expectations by Charles Dickens

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

War of the Usurper

• A game of thrones by George R. R. Martin

World War I

• Human traces by Sebastian Faulks
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• The first casualty by Ben Elton (1918)
• The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie (1918)
• Time and time again by Ben Elton (1918)

World War II

• The fatal Englishman : three short lives by Sebastian Faulks
• King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga
• Lolita by Craig Raine
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• A possible life : a novel in five parts by Sebastian Faulks
• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay
• All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The book thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell ( 1945)
• The redbreast by Jo Nesbø (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Two brothers by Ben Elton (1945)

World War II, Atlantic Convoys

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, Breaking of Enigma

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, British Home Front

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, Eastern Front

• The redbreast by Jo Nesbø (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World War II, Japanese Codes

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, Polish cryptographers

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, Tunny codebreaking

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War II, Ultra

• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

World War III

• Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)