- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Manhattan Transfer is an “expressionistic picture of New York” (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the...
- Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Post WW2
M.F.K. Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her young daughters after the Second World War. In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancient and famous town, known for its tree-lined avenues, pretty fountains and ornate façades....
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Confused with the song (I can hear you singing it already!). Peter Millar’s 3rd train narrative, this time to Morocco and still a whiff of spliff.
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th century
Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange – tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
Bombay, 1913 It’s New Year’s Eve, and Madeline Bright, fresh to the exotic opulence of colonial India, is yearning for all she’s left behind in England. But then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It is April in Manhattan and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners – after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that...
- Location(s): Zell am See
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high...
- Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...
Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 - post WW2
World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes....
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