AnnPann - I did a little digging for you, and although I didn't find any specific sites referring to that situation, I found some books that might address it: Australia-focused home front books: S.J. Butlin and C.B. Schedvin, War Economy 1942Â1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1997 Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Australia: Oxford UP, 1990. Saunders, Kay. War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938-1948 (1993) The Home Front Volume I by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) The Home Front Volume II by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) Political and External Affairs by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld (1958) NZ official history Britain: Calder, Angus . The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969) Harris, Carol (2000). Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-2536-1. Marwick, Arthur (1976). The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. Rose, Sonya O. (2003) Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 Misc: Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939-1945 1985. US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes Noakes, Jeremy ed., The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1992. Then below is a link to an interesting site about a community in London with oral histories etc (won't hurt your eyes).... Might be relevant... Here is a link that might be useful: Hidden Histories: East Community Heritage (London)

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I listened to Oliver Twist on my 15-minute-each-way commute to work. It took a couple of renewals to get it done, but worth it. The Billy Crystal memoir that is a mix of studio and live recordings is hard to listen to with kids, you're right. The live readings are more vulgar. His other one, done in the studio, was better. Books (non-fiction) you can listen to with him in the car, especially if either of you is kind of geeky, include The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (by Sam Kean). Surprisingly interesting and entertaining to boot. What If?, based on the Randall Munroe XKCD comic and read by Wil Wheaton. He's the perfect reader for this book. Just bear in mind though, many scenarios don't end well for mankind, but in a most absurd way. Oh, another good memoir is Martin Short's. I enjoy him anyway, and he reads his own memoir well. As I recall, except for his shacking up with Gilda Radner, it's pretty PG. We enjoyed it on a car trip (teen boys). AJ Jacobs' books are fun and interesting (year of living biblically, the smartest man in the world (reading the encyclopedia)) but we find his voice grating. We just turn it off after a bit, let it wear off, and are back to it again. Jen Lancaster's memoir books are fun, too. I especially enjoyed Pretty In Plaid. Your son won't be so interested. Also her book about a year of living Martha Stewart, or, I'll never get all the glitter off the dog. Fresh Air with Terry Gross! They are great listens!

I'm also not sure what is being asked here regarding the other discussion, but I can say one thing-it's not an educated or informed conversation. Literature, fiction and the combination thereof is a deep, engaging and very complex topic that has nothing to do with what is being posted over there, which is a chat about what genre of books people like to read and a supposition (incorrect) that literary fiction is distinguished by being boring and either lacking in or having difficult to follow plots. I didn't see anything over there even touching the surface of what would be discussed in a freshman comp lit classroom or heck in a high school honor English course ;).