- Location(s): Catalonia, Ebro Valley
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Orwell’s book about how he joined the ranks of the anti fascists during the Civil War, in which he was actively involved.
- Location(s): London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 2012
When elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in his home in Bangalore by his daughter, Assistant Commissioner of Police Borei Gowda is quite certain that this is a...
- Location(s): Hamburg, Cartagena
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages...
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1942 to modern
1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during...
House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya’s epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series...
- Location(s): Finland, Helsinki
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s
Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland’s freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father...
House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
- Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1910s
This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.
- Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1915 to 1993
Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...
- Location(s): Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller. The truth will always come out, but at what cost? Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate...










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