- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and...
- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kendwick of his suspected crimes in America, but DI Charlotte Savage is determined to bring...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
He wasn’t aging: he was growing up. Bonfire’s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn’t just Wolfe’s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from...
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 1990
An enigmatic boss. Suspicious results. Stock market shenanigans. Can Sam Harris get to the bottom of it before they silence her? Geologist Sam Harris has been round the block, but she’s prone to nostalgia, so she snatches the chance...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins crafts an unforgettable story about a sleepy Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a truly magical friendship. Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than...
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused...
The Book of Birmingham (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new communities moving in, then out, and iconic post-war...
The Book of Cairo (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth… A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop… A disgraced doctor confronts...
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