- 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...
- 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): 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 –...