Back to Bangka pre ENTERTAINMENT Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

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Potatoes and espionage collide in The Peski Kids' final mission

the middle-aged wildlife photographer

Back to Bangka pre ENTERTAINMENT Katherine Hancock RagsdaleGeorgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island,