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The First Casualty, by Ben Elton: a murder mystery set in the trenches of ww1. Very good book.
The Horse Boy (author, i can't recall) written by (and in audio narrated by) the father of an autistic boy and telling their story. It's beautiful.
Nation, by Terry Pratchett. It's written for a young adult audience, but is really rather good. It's a departure from his discworld stuff and is set in the real (more or less) world. It's a lovely story. A girl from England in something like the Edwardian or Victorian era, is shipwrecked on Island. Also alone on this island is 'Nation' an adolescent boy who is the sole survivor of his people (hence taking on the name Nation), his whole tribe having been wiped out by a freak tsunami whilst he was alone on a different island undergoing a solitary coming of age ritual.
They have no language to link them. But they grow a close friendship. It's really wonderfully written. Funny and poignant by turns. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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