A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker, £14.99

“Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance...

Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.”

Lancaster author Jo Baker pays tribute to Samuel Beckett who joined the French Resistance, fled from the Gestapo on foot, went into hiding and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre.

CAROLINE REECE

WATERSTONES KENDAL