{"title":"Books by Janina David","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780907871736","title":"A Square of Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. A year later they were all on the verge of starvation, sharing a small room in the Warsaw ghetto. When it became clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year-old girl was smuggled out to live with family friends. When their home also became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered. In this memoir, David records the events around her through the eyes of a child, lonely and terrified, yet her determination to survive reads like a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295445266805,"sku":"9780907871736","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780907871736_d7add249-c367-4d2f-99e3-8af66feb4b57.jpg?v=1786016188"},{"product_id":"9781838172053","title":"The Hopeful Traveller","description":"WRY TALES FROM ENVELOPEBOOKSIn France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train.   The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation.   Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307994624373,"sku":"9781838172053","price":12.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781838172053_60c0a3ba-23ce-41ef-8137-1c1597ea47c4.jpg?v=1786028333"},{"product_id":"9781915023087","title":"The Prince and the Baker's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eShould bakers’ daughter want to marry princes? (Lucinda’s father didn’t think so.) Should kings and queens let princesses play with dragons? Should Orpheus have made so much of a fuss about his wife? Should Ben rely on Magic Eye creatures to help him find his mother in Brazil? Should Father Christmas retire and let us give presents to him for a change? So many questions—but these are the burning questions of the day, if you live in storyland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith children’s writers inventing new formats every day, Janina David has gone back to traditional forms—Grimms’ fairy tales and ancient legend—and matched classic themes and modern sensibilities to produce stories that feel as if they’ve always been around, just waiting for us to discover them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Princess and the Baker's Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children is a collection of captivating tales intended for readers of different ages and different interests, but all linked by a common love of make-believe. Some have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections. One has been staged, to great success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309383758197,"sku":"9781915023087","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781915023087_82571a16-c3dd-4094-b46c-c9d3ded07449.jpg?v=1786030181"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-janina-david.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}