- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical, Biography
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author’s coming-of-age in a bruised...
The Forgotten Pioneer: A true family story set in East Africa
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
“My grandfather was one of the first white men to set foot in Kenya when it was a newly discovered, barren and dangerous place. Neither he or his family ever imagined that he would fall under the spell of...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Not a pretty sight. Certainly not one the authorities on Mauritius, that gem of a tourist destination in a trio of idyllic islands once known as the Mascarenes, would like to become public knowledge. Their carefully nurtured image was...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Romance, Historical, Suspense
- Era(s): 1943 and 2018
1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Auckland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo’s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa...
- Location(s): Cardiff
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1915
‘Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break’ It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But things are...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1750s
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be...
- Location(s): India, Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930's/Present day
In 1934, Anna Foster, the young wife of a British Army Officer, privately harbouring pain and remorse, sets sail from Bombay on a fateful journey home, a letter from a charismatic stranger – orphanage superintendent, Reverend Ezra Burroughs –...
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